Miloš Savčić's (1924-26) palace: An atypical corner building in Belgrade

Abstract

Apart from scores of freestanding buildings and those that filled in gaps in a street wall, Belgrade's architecture of a more recent period is marked by corner buildings overlooking street intersections, squares, parks and thoroughfares. Unlike the less conspicuous buildings fitted into the continuous frontage of city blocks, corner buildings are structurally more elaborate and communicatively more assertive components of the city's building stock. One of the lesser-studied corner buildings in the central zone of Belgrade is the Palace of Miloš Savčić at the corner of Kralja Milana and Andrićev Venac streets (former Dobrinjska) built in 1924-26 to a design by the renowned Serbian engineer Miloš Savčić (1865-1941) and the prolific Russian-born architect Evgenii Gulin (1875-?). It deserves attention not only by its location in the cityscape and spatial organisation but also as a representative example of the architecture of academicism.

Keywords

• Belgrade
• architecture
• corner buildings
• academicism
• Miloš Savčić
• Evgenii Gulin