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Genex Tower (1979), the favorite insta shot of Belgrade. Architectural gem and intriguing story of YU economy between East and West.
MOCAB close up: commies' museum that looked up 5th Avenue?!
Hotel Yugoslavia, built to impress non-aligned comrades and host western dignitaries.
Seat of YU Government - the witness of transition from Soviet style to a more liberal atmosphere.
Public housing block - not a ghetto but quality living for all.

Architecture of New Belgrade - Brutalism Decoded

By Walking Belgrade
7.4 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$150 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

You'll have a close up on 5 exemplary buildings of Yugoslav socialist architecture. Find out why this architecture recently created a hype at exhibition at MoMA in New York and world-wide. Hear about it from the art historian guide who has not just studied it, but actually lived in it.
You’ll discover the buildings for the socialist elites, buildings for socialist business, buildings to impress the non aligned comrades and social housing blocks for the classless society.
You'll see how and why the architecture changed from the Soviet-like to modernism to brutalism. In 2 hours you'll understand 50 years of Yugoslavian utopia.

Activity location

  • Museum of Contemporary Art
    • Usce 10
    • Belgrade, Serbia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Museum of contemporary art
    • 10 Ušće
    • Beograd, Grad Beograd, Serbia

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For 1 - 3 persons
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Price details
AU$150.17 x 2 AdultsAU$300.34
Total
Price is AU$300.34
Until Wed, 25 Dec

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  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
You'll meet the guide in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art at Ušće. You'll explore its modernist 1960-ies volumes and find out why its precious marble facades contradict the stereotypical expectations from socialist architecture.
Palata Srbije (Pass by)
Next, we'll drive by the huge Government Building, a telling monument of an earlier phase of YU politics, a building that experienced the switch away from Stalin while under construction.
Хотел Југославија
  • 15m
Your next stop is Hotel Yugoslavia, once the most luxurious Belgrade hotel, built to host the dignitaries and celebrities President Tito was receiving in Belgrade. You'll get inside to discover traces of its lost splendour - a gigantic crystal chandelier that is one of the world's biggest, and vast vistas of the Danube river.
Belgrade Western Gate
  • 20m
You’ll have a close up of Genex Tower, aka Western City Gate of Belgrade, a 30 floor structure that has won instagrams and hearts of many Belgrade visitors. Built 40 years ago, it was the first smart building in the Balkans and entered the international architecture reviews as a fine example of brutalism.
Primary School Laza Kostić
  • 15m
Inside the Block no. 23, the most representative public council estate, again in style of concrete expressionism, you'll discover the concept that provided everything for the inhabitants. The apartment buildings, school, the kindergarten, the sport courts, the mini shopping centre. You’ll hear the guide's personal stories of life in the blocks in their golden decades of 60s, 70s and 80s. And the stories of living not so great in 90s.
Sava Center
  • 15m
Your final stop is a gigantic congress centre, built at the end of 1970s in record times. It was the first building of that sort in this part of Europe. It’s still in function and includes some surprisingly well designed interior solutions that seem fresh even after 40 years.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESMuseum of Contemporary Art
    • Usce 10
    • Belgrade, Serbia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEMuseum of contemporary art
    • 10 Ušće
    • Beograd, Grad Beograd, Serbia

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