Russian Pavilions Photos
Built just after the second world war it was one of the first organized housing project newly formed Yugoslavia. Immediately after the war, it was a place where army officals got apartments, but very fast, with development of other parts of the city, Russian Pavilions became dominantly workers' neighborhood.
In nineties local residents started seeking perimissions from the municipality to transform attics into apartment space. Those low scale transformations, self-organized and sometimes even self-built were almost symoblically linked to the collapse of the state that happend in Serbia in nineties. Left without maintainance and other types of formal support from the city, residents had to tend for themselves.
In 2001. private developers lurking for the cheep profitable land near the city center, realised that they can use the same rules used by local inhabitants and started almost systematicly extending buildings. Additions on one storey high buidling were 4 or 5 stories high.
Apr 30, 2009
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