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Notes from Belgrade #3

7. World’s first radio controlled boat. By Nikola Tesla, c.1900. 8. Wallpaper outside. Leaf wallpaper on windows to modern apartments, Belgrade. 9. Belgrade School of Architecture, staircase, you can imagine what the studios were like.

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Notes from Belgrade #2

4. Block 23 from Block 22: Picturesque brutalism, a city in the sky. Twenty floors up ivy grows and pigeon loft has been built. (Novi Beograd: Architects: Jankovic, Karadzic, Stjepanovic, 1975). 5. Weightlifter: Meaty Doric column on Belgrade Post Office. … Continue reading

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Notes from Belgrade #1

Some sights from a recent trip to Belgrade (Beograd): 1. Bill Clinton and Urban Design: Nikola Dobrovic, Architect, 1963, Ministry of Defence, Belgrade, in two parts, whose stepped forms matched each other across a major street, forming an image of … Continue reading

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Leaning Tower of Plečnik

St Antun* Catholic Church, Belgrade. 1936-63. Architect: Jože Plečnik A circular church with a circular tower that is now leaning slightly as can be seen in the gap between it and the neighbouring block. Monolithic columns in the porch have … Continue reading

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