Tanjug building
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.jpg) Tanjug building |
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| place | Stari Grad , Belgrade , Serbia |
| Construction year | 1937 |
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| Type of cultural asset: Cultural monument Responsible institution: The institutions responsible for the protection of monuments: Institute for the protection of monuments Headquarters: Belgrade Address: Kalemegdan 14 11000 Official website |
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The Tanjug building is located in Belgrade on Obilićev venac square. Because of its architectural and urban, cultural and historical value, the building has the status of a cultural monument .
The time before the outbreak of World War II was marked by growing instability, inflation and pressure from the totalitarian regime. The Privileged Export Company (PRIZAD) endeavored to promote the state's export earnings. Since it was of particular importance to the country's economy, but until then operated in rented premises, the company built its own luxurious, monumental building. On the basis of a competition held in 1937, the PRIZAD administration building was built according to plans by the architect Bogdan Nestorović between 1938 and 1939.
Since the property is located on a natural slope that extends from Obilićev venac to the banks of the Sava , the building has a prominent location in the cityscape. In an orthogonal scheme with two pylons attached to one side and with a recognizable arch shape, the facade of the building is rhythmically divided by stylized pilasters in a modernist manner and spirit, as well as by a neutral grid of window openings. The monumental character of the building required that it also be covered with a layer of thin stone tiles, which was also used inside the hall.
In the design of this building of non-ornamental, modernist architecture, there is a visible influence of the architecture of the totalitarian regimes of Italy and Germany, but also influences of French monumentalism.
With its harmonious shape and cleaned, non-ornamental facade, the building is recognized as the key success of Belgrade architecture of the fourth decade of the last century and has a prominent place in the creative work of the architect Bogdan Nestorović.
Later use
After the war the building was the headquarters of the OZNA . In the early 1960s, the building became the headquarters of the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug (Telegrafske agencije Nove Jugoslavije - News Agency of the New Yugoslavia). Since then there has been a sculpture of Moša Pijade , the founder of Tanjug , in the lobby of the building .
Web links
- Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments - Belgrade
- Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments - Belgrade / Database of Immovable Cultural Assets ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- List of monuments
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dosije spomenika kulture, Dokumentacija Zavoda za zaštitu spomenika kulture grada Beograda, SK 177