Istria Residence / Dva Arhitekta. Architects: Dva Arhitekta Location: Istria, Croatia Project Team: Tomislav Ćurković, Zoran Zidarić Collaborator: Barbara Vuković Site Area: 1,755 sqm Project Area: 545 sqm Project Year: 2004-2009 Photographs: Robert Leš Context Surrounding the building of a maximum “use” of existing laws and zoning requirements on the principle that more squares meters for the least investment.
The plot is surrounded on three sides cy the road, and on the fourth by semi-detached house. Zoning requirements demanded hip roof with round tiles. Concept The house is divided in two separate buildings: the main – family house and accessory – guest house. Atrium Atrium, besides obstructions of views, allows shading in the summer so necessary in this climate zone.
Wall Screen. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. The stunning Plitvice Lakes National Park lies in the Lika region of Croatia.
The park is surrounded by the mountains Plješevica, Mala Kapela, and Medveđak, which are part of the Dinaric Alps. The 16 blue-green Plitvice Lakes, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, are situated on the Plitvice plateau. Waterfalls connect the lakes, and the tallest waterfall is Veliki Slap at 70 meters (230 feet) tall.
The Plitvice lakes area boasts a large variety of interesting and colorful flora and fauna. Visitors can enjoy walking and hiking the many pathways and trails, or exploring the lakes by boat. Two Houses / Arhitektri. Architects: Arhitektri Location: Bratovici, Istria, Croatia Project Team: Rujana Bergam Markovic, Boska Bahtijarevic, Aleksandar Markovic Contractor: SAB d.o.o.
Project Area: 2,179 sqm Design Year: 2007-2008 Construction Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Miljenko Bernfest & Aleksandar Markovic While working on this project the main question that was raised was how to integrate a contemporary facility into the existing ambient of a small Istrian town, how to incorporate something modern into the existing area, which in itself entails a string of details and functions that considerably vary from the rural image of surrounding households, all the while striving to keep the balance with the community in general. The investors’ request (two friends) was that two identical country retreats be situated on the lot with a joint swimming pool and accompanying details.
Cascade Commercial Center / Radionica Arhitekture. Architects: Radionica Arhitekture Location: Zagreb, Croatia Project Team: Blanka Gutschy, Vedrana Ivanda, Kristina Jeren, Goran Rako, Nenad Ravnić, Josip Sabolić, Marusja Tus Structural Engineering: Branko Galic Project Area: 18,000 sqm Project Year: 2004-2008 Construction Year: 2009 Photographs: Boris Cvjetanovic Cascade commercial center is situated in the center of Zagreb, about 500m to the north of the main city square where the flat lowland part of Zagreb meets the elite housing covered city hills.
The architectural concept of the building is in our opinion contextual as it appreciates the topography which suggests building terraces between two parallel streets each on a different elevation. It’s easy to conclude that the center got its name from its cross section. Rural Mat / njiric+ arhitekti. Architects: njiric+ arhitekti doo Location: Zagreb, Croatia Architects in Charge: Hrvoje Njirić, Helena Sterpin Project Team: David Kabalin, Vedran Skopac, Davor Busnja, Igor Ekstajn, Ljiljana Gasi, Tena Zic, Diego Pereira, Diego Labbé Structure: G&F d.o.o., Eugen Gajsak Site Supervisor: Gark d.o.o. – Kruno Komesar dipl.ing, Zoran Skrepnik dipl.ing.
Client: Titan d.o.o. Contractor: Ravago d.o.o. Zagreb Dance Center / 3LHD. Architects: 3LHD Location: Zagreb, Croatia Project team: Sasa Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic, Silvije Novak, Jasminka Jug, Zorislav Petric, Zeljko Mohorovic, Dijana Vandekar, Marin Mikelic Client: City of Zagreb Site Area: 1,360 sqm Project Area: 1,438 sqm Project year: 2003-2008 Construction year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Sandro Lendler The opening of big movieplex cinemas in Zagreb has led to the dying out of old cinema theatres in the city centre.
The City of Zagreb, who is the owner of the old cinema Lika, decided to reuse the space for new cultural facilities. In that scenario old cinema Lika was given the role of a new dance centre. Fifty years of contemporary dance culture in Zagreb has produced about 40 dance troops, with this project all of them will have a new home in the city centre. The cinema is located in a derelict residential block only 100 meters away from the Zagreb’s main square. Lapidarium Museum / Randić & Turato. Architects: Randić & Turato / Saša Randić and Idis Turato Location: Novigrad, Croatia Client: Town Novigrad Collaborator: Leora Drazul (Technical Architect) Construction: Dragan Ribaric Commission type: Invited Competition Project Area: 780 sqm Project year: 2003 Construction year: 2006 Photographs: Randić & Turato Novigrad Lapidarium Museum houses the collection of early medieval monuments, architectural sculpture and church furnishings, which all come from the neighboring cathedral.
Building is situated inside the park bordered by the cathedral and residential buildings on the other sides. One of the specifics of Novigrad, in comparison with other historical towns on the western coast of Istria, is that it has a large proportion of parks inside the historical city structure. This condition has been recognized as significant for the project. Lapidarium is essentially two black boxes and the park. Emergency Terminal / Produkcija 004. Architect: Produkcija 004 Location: Zagreb, Croatia Client: City of Zagreb and Zagreb Holding Project architects: Davor Katušic & Martina Ljubičic Project team: Margareta Ćurić,d.i.a., Jana Kocbek, u.d.i.a., Robert Franjo, arh. teh., Ivo Petrić, d.i.a., Marija Burmas, d.i.a.
Graphic Design: Juri Armanda, Karl Geisler, Bor Dizdar Builder: Dalekovod d.d., ZagrebMontaža d.d. Project area: 15,000 sqm Budget: 15 mil. Euro Project year: 2009 Photographs: Produkcija 004 Through a synthesis of architectural genres (hospital, clinic, garage, administrative, and educational buildings) the Emergency terminal emerges as a new urban sign of safety, competence and speed. The 8-story facility includes a reception and telecommunications service, resuscitation clinic, in-patient clinic, Zagreb City’s medical supply storage, a lecture hall and classrooms, a laboratory, administration service, technical service and multi-story garage accommodating 170 medical vehicles.
Zamet Centre / 3LHD. Project name: Zamet Centre Program: Public, cultural, business, sport Location: B.
Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Zamet Centre in complete size of 16830 m2 hosts various facilities: sports hall with max 2380 seats, local community offices, library, 13 retail and service spaces and a garage with 250 parking spaces. One third of the sports hall’s volume is cut in the ground, and the rest of the Centre is fully fitted into the surrounding landscape. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and a link between the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south. The stripes were inspired by “gromača”, a type of rocks specific to Rijeka, which the centre artificially reinterprets by colour and shape.
Croatia: CIP Talks and new architecture. During these days I´m in Zagreb, Croatia, participating at CIP Talks 2009, an architecture conference organized by CIP Magazine.
The list of lecturers at the conference include renowned architects, such as Mauricio Pezo & Sofía von Ellrichshausen (PvE), Jan Neutelings (Neutelings & Riedjik), Mark Lee (Johnston & MarkLee, interview here), Shohei Shigematsu (OMA, interview here), Carme Pinós, Arnaud Billard (Transsolar), Mikkel Frost (CEBRA), STUDIO UP (winners of the Emerging Architect MvE Award with their Gymnasium), Joseph Grima (Director of the Storefront Gallery, interview here), among other european and US architects. Also, during these days we find the Croatian Architectural Triennale, the launch of Pogledaj.to a new local website for architecture, a new book on Croatian architecture, the opening of a new pavilion on the center of the city… an intense dose of architecture that we will be reporting during the following days.
Memorial Bridge / 3LHD Pope John Paul II / Randic Turato. 3LHD architects – architecture and urban planning studio.