Architecture in context: Commercial-business and hotel complex 'Rajićeva'', Belgrade

Abstract

The article present s the commercial and hotel complex 'Rajićeva' in Belgrade designed by Milan and Vladimir Lojanica. Almost twenty years ago, their design project won first prize among other 35 projects in the public architectural-urban planning competition. The building's urban planning and spatial concept and architecture merged an entire urban block into a unique communication structure, turning it into a focal point made of glass, stone and metal, in which new contents, meanings and new aesthetic standards have been incorporated. The authors of this project searched and found the stronghold for their ideas in the sophisticated dialogue between history and currentness, in the fundamental honouring of the vestiges and legends within the city's memory and contemporary architecture, its language and spirit of the new age.