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{{short description|Government building in Belgrade, Serbia}}
[[Image:Novi Beograd - The SIV building.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Palace of Serbia]]
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The '''Palace of Serbia''' ({{lang-sr|Палата Србије|Palata Srbije}}) is a government building currently housing several cabinet level [[Ministry (government department)|ministries]] and site for [[State visit|state visits]] of foreign [[Head of state|head of states]] to Serbia. Building is located in [[Novi Beograd]], [[Belgrade]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:247230-Selidba-na-tri-adrese|title=Selidba državnih institucija|publisher=Večernje novosti|language=sr|date=5 August 2009|access-date=10 August 2009}}</ref>


== Name ==
The '''Palace of Serbia''' ({{lang-sr|Палата Србије / Palata Srbije}}) is a governmental building located in [[New Belgrade]], [[Serbia]].
The official name of the building is '''Palace of the Federal Executive Council''' ({{lang-sr|Палата Савезног извршног већа|Palata Saveznog izvršnog veća}}; abbr. ''SIV'') as it was originally used by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia and is registered by that name in the Registry of Cultural Properties. In the 1990s, after the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, building was informally known as the '''Palace of the Federation''' ({{lang-sr|Палата Федерације|Palata Federacije}}), and after the restoration of independence of Serbia in 2006, the building got its name "Palace of Serbia", although it has never been officially renamed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/pregled_stampe.php?yyyy=2003&mm=02&dd=20&nav_id=101585|title=Sablasno prazna Palata sa 744 sobe|publisher=B92|language=sr|date=20 February 2003|access-date=10 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="direkcija">{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2009&mm=02&dd=05&nav_category=11&nav_id=343407|title=Direkcija: U Palati nema mesta|publisher=B92|language=sr|date=5 February 2009|access-date=10 August 2009}}</ref>


== History ==
It was the former seat of the Federal Executive Council (Government) of [[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and was previously known as the ''Federation Palace'' (Palata Federacije) and, informally, ''SIV 1'' ("Savezno izvršno veće" - Federal Executive Council).<ref name="sablasno">{{cite web |title=Sablasno prazna Palata sa 744 sobe |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/pregled_stampe.php?yyyy=2003&mm=02&dd=20&nav_id=101585 |date=20 February 2003 |work=[[Blic]] |publisher=[[B92]] |accessdate=10 August 2009}} {{sr icon}}</ref>
=== Palace of the Federal Executive Council ===
Architectural design competition for the new building of the [[Federal Executive Council (Yugoslavia)|Federal Executive Council]] of [[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] was announced in 1946.<ref name=Politika/> The accepted project from the group of architects from Zagreb included the exterior 'H' shape designed by lead architect Vladimir Potočnjak and his team: Anton Urlih, Zlatko Nojman and Dragica Perak.


The Palace was initially conceived as the part of the public ensemble of public buildings, but such programme was reduced by the adoption of the General Urban Plan of the City of Belgrade in 1950, according to which the Palace, along with the Hotel Yugoslavia, remained secluded on the right bank of the Danube. Other planned objects next to it included the Museum of the Revolution, in the section between the building, the modern [[Ušće Tower|Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], and the planned building of the [[Radio Television of Serbia|Radio Television Belgrade]].<ref name=Politika>{{Citation | author = Dejan Aleksić | title = Loša izolacija, podzemne vode i manjak para i u "zlatno doba" | trans-title = Bad insulation, groundwater and lack of funds even in the "golden age" | newspaper = [[Politika]] | language = sr | date = 5 November 2017 | url = http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/392033/Lo-sa-izo-la-ci-ja-pod-zem-ne-vo-de-i-ma-njak-pa-ra-i-u-zlat-no-do-ba }}</ref>
Construction began in 1947. The original plans were created by a four-member team of architects, Vladimir Potočnjak, Anton Urlih, Zlatko Nojman and Dragica Perak. Their proposal included only the H shaped base. After the death of team leader Vladimir Potočnjak in 1952, construction was halted, and later resumed in 1956 when architect Mihailo Janković took over the project and significatly improved upon the original design.


Construction began in 1948 but was halted only a year later. By that time, only the "skeletons" of the side wings and part of the central annex were finished.<ref name=Politika/><ref name="tob">{{cite web|url=http://www.tob.co.rs/en/see_in.php?id=77|title=Palace of Serbia|publisher=Tourist Organization of Belgrade|access-date=13 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616090437/http://www.tob.co.rs/en/see_in.php?id=77|archive-date=16 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The project was taken over by [[Mihailo Janković]] who designed the interior of the structure and oversaw its construction when the construction works resumed works in 1955 until completion in 1959.<ref name="tob"/><ref name=Politika/> The original plans were designed according to the [[Socialist realism]] aesthetics, as Yugoslavia at that time was an ally of the [[Soviet Union]]. However, after the [[Tito–Stalin split]] in 1948, many things in the state changed, so the new project by Janković was [[Modernist]]ic instead.<ref name=Politika/>
The building currently houses six ministries of the [[Government of Serbia]], with plans to eventually move the remainder after structural changes are made to accommodate the plans.<ref name="direkcija">{{cite web |title=Direkcija: U Palati nema mesta |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2009&mm=02&dd=05&nav_category=11&nav_id=343407 |date= 5 February 2009 |work= [[B92]]|publisher=[[B92]] |accessdate=10 August 2009}} {{sr icon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/3802/Government-moves-to-New-Belgrade-Home-Ministry-and-Army-at-Banjica-|title=Government moves to New Belgrade|publisher=[[Blic (newspaper)]]|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Selidba državnih institucija |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2009&mm=08&dd=05&nav_id=374906|date=5 August 2009 |work=[[Večernje novosti]] |publisher=[[B92]] |accessdate=10 August 2009}} {{sr icon}}</ref>


The building was constructed by the [[Youth work actions|Youth Work Brigades]] from all around Yugoslavia. Janković significantly changed the original design by adding some new elements and not leaving much of the original project, except for the overall H shape.<ref name=Politika/> The central annex on the river side was demolished and instead of one main entrance, two were projected, with the ceremonial one being the one in the modern Bulevar Mihajla Pupina.<ref name=Politika/> The design by an architect Janković and his team also brought in significant changes in interior organization. He kept the urban disposition, basic measures and mutual relations of certain tracts from the original design, whereas the main changes concerned the interior spatial organization. According to the altered design, the central part with the Banquet Hall, all the annexes around the building as well as the façade were constructed. By shifting the main entrance to the southern side, the entire building got accentuated orientation towards the future settlement. Along with the representative hall placed on the first floor of the newly designed annex, a number of extra lounges, conference halls, twenty-eight cabinets for the members of the Federal Executive Council, about sixty offices for the administration, as well as the following space for garaging vehicles were anticipated by the new programme of the interior design.
The building was constructed in the mixed stripped down classicist (the main structure) and modernist (the glass domed great hall with front enterance) architectural styles. Common misconception about it being in socialist realism/Stalinist style is due to lack of such buildings in Belgrade in general. Due to Tito - Stalin split occurring before major new construction began in the city, the style, with the exception of Trade Unions Building, never took hold in Yugoslavia. While it is the most monumental building of the early socialist period, unfamiliar with Soviet construction of the time, yet familiar with the term used for it, come to this obviously erroneous conclusion. Its H-shaped base covers an area of approximately 65,000 m²<ref name="direkcija"/>, thus making it the largest building in Serbia by area covered. It has 744 offices, about 30 m² each, 13 conference rooms, six salons, three large halls and two garages<ref name="direkcija"/>.


The First Conference of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] was held in the building in 1961. The first session of the Federal Executive Council in the new building was held at 29 April 1961. The Palace of Federal Executive Council, later Palace of Serbia, received many foreign statesmen and delegations ever since.<ref>[http://foto.mij.rs/site/gallery/4439/allphotos Sednica SIV-a na kojoj je podnet izveštaj o putovanju po afričkim zemljama.] foto.mij.rs</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}


=== Palace of the Federation ===


In the 1990s, after the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, building was informally known as the Palace of the Federation and was used as the seat of almost all federal institutions of the newly-formed [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (later renamed State Union of Serbia and Montenegro): Federal Governement (later renamed Council of Ministers) and the [[Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro|Prime Minister]], federal ministries (with the exception of Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and the Federal Constitutional Court.
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=== Palace of Serbia ===
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Since the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, building is used as the seat of several cabinet-level ministries: [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]] (housed in the western wing), [[Ministry of Environmental Protection (Serbia)|Ministry of Environmental Protection]], [[Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue (Serbia)|Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue]], [[Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography (Serbia)|Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography]], [[Ministry of Rural Welfare (Serbia)|Ministry of Rural Welfare]], [[Ministry of Tourism and Youth (Serbia)|Ministry of Tourism and Youth]] and the [[Ministry of Sports (Serbia)|Ministry of Sports]], as well as the [[Office for Kosovo and Metohija]].


==== Ceremonial site for state visits ====
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Belgrade]]
[[File:SIV_Palace_of_Serbia_IMG_9221.JPG|240px|right|thumb|Plateau and Central Annex, site for state visits of foreign heads of states]]
The Palace of Serbia is used as site for reception ceremonies for state visits of foreign heads of states. On the plateau in front of the Central Annex of the palace, visiting head of state is greeted upon arrival by the [[President of Serbia|President of the Republic]], followed by the playing of the two national anthems by a [[Band of the Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces]] and review of Honor Guard Battalion of the [[Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces]]. The ceremony is concluded with introduction of the delegation accompanying the visiting head of state as well as the delegation of the President of Serbia. Reception ceremony is then followed by the bilateral meetings in one of the salons in Central Annex of the palace.


== Architecture ==
[[de:Palata Srbije]]
Its H-shaped base covers an area of approximately {{cvt|65000|m2|sqft}} thus making Palace of Serbiua the largest building by area in the country. Palace of Serbia consists of 744 offices, about 30 m² each, 13 conference rooms, six salons, three large halls and two garages.<ref name="direkcija"/>
[[sr:Палата Србије]]
[[File:Palata Srbije 2016 (24799532402).jpg|240px|right|thumb|Great Hall, Central Annex]]
The building was constructed in the mixed stripped down classicist (the main structure) and modernist (the glass domed great hall with front entrance) architectural styles.<ref name="tob"/> Common misconception about the building, due to lack of such buildings in Belgrade in general, is that it is an example of Socialist Realism/Stalinist style in architecture. While it is the most monumental building of the early socialist period, unfamiliar with Soviet construction of the time, yet familiar with the term used for it, come to this obviously erroneous conclusion.

The representative exterior matches the luxuriously designed interior, also realized according to the architect Mihailo Janković's design, which places this building among the pioneer examples of the „total design“ in domestic architecture. The unique interior design, with numerous works of fine and applied arts, gives the building the character of some kind of a gallery of Yugoslav Modern art. The interior, as well as the exterior design was supposed to reflect the power, the greatness, the stability and the integrity of new Yugoslavia. The interior decoration design included artistic decoration of the walls with the mosaic technique, graffiti and fresco-painting, as well as by placing free-standing sculptures and reliefs, which was the specific assignment given to the special artistic commission. The design of the lounges dedicated to all six of the federal republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, located in the central part of the palace, was based on the accentuation of the traditional motifs, characteristic for every federal unit of the country. The Yugoslav Salon represented the largest and at the same time the most representative room in the palace. The peculiar design of this salon was seen in the monumental frescoes by Petar Lubarda,<ref>The group of authors, Lubarda 1907-2007, Between the image of nature and the nature of the image, the catalogue from the exhibition, Belgrade 2008; The House of Legacy #http://www.kucalegata.org/legati/petarlubarda.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311202654/http://www.kucalegata.org/legati/petarlubarda.html |date=2017-03-11 }} retrieved on 28 March 2016.</ref> and Lazar Vujaklija,<ref>J. Despotović, Lazar Vujaklija – Wanderings among the gardens with many flowers, 18 October 2000. Available on #http://www.jovandespotovic.com/?page_id=7643 retrieved on 28 March 2016.</ref> as well as the triptych-mosaic The Creation of Yugoslavia, the work of Mladen Srbinović.<ref>Mladen Srbinović #http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=1279 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005121047/http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=1279 |date=2016-10-05 }} retrieved on 28 March 2016.</ref> The solemn character of this room was particularly emphasized by the crystal chandelier hanging from the dome, with more than two thousand five hundred light bulbs, and the weight of nine tons.
[[File:The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu and the President of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, at the India-Serbia Business Forum Meeting, at Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia (1).JPG|240px|right|thumb|Main Salon, Central Annex]]
The works of Yugoslav's fine and applied arts characterize the interior design of the building. Among them, the ones which particularly stand out for their artistic, cultural and historical importance are the works of the following authors: [[Petar Lubarda]], [[Antun Augustinčić]], [[Frano Kršinić]], [[Matija Vuković]], Ante Gržetić, Sava Sandić, Vincent Beneš, Boža Ilić, [[Đorđe Andrejević-Kun|Đorđe Andrejević Kun]], Predrag-Peđa Milosavljević, [[Stojan Aralica]], Bora Baruh, Lazar Ličenoski, Branislav Nemet, Vera Čohadžić, France Slana, Milivoj Uzelac, Ferdo Majer, Lazar Vujaklija, Mladen Srbinović, Matija Rodiči, Branko Subotić-Sube, Jože Ciuha, Lazar Vozarević, Janez Bernik, Vojo Dimitrijević, Drago Tihec, [[Milan Konjović]], Ivan Radović, Marinko Benzon, Boško Petrović, Ratomir Stojadinović, Dragi Trajanovski, Jovan Bijelić, Zora Petrović, Olivera Kangrga, Vojin Bakić, Ignjat Job, Boško Petrović, Olivera Petrović, Olivera Galović, Milica Zorić, Lazar Vozarević, Oton Gliha, Jagoda Bujić, Vida Jocić, [[Milo Milunović]], Sreten Stojanović, [[Risto Stijović]], Mira Sandić, Nebojša Mitrić, Andrej Jemec, Drago Tršar, Branko Filipović-Filo, Drago Ordev, Slavko Atanasovski Krstanče, [[Bogosav Živković]], Tone Kralj, Ratomir Gligorijević, Jovan Rakidžić, Stevan Dukić, Marin Pregelj, Drinka Radovanović.

In front of the medium wing there is a Central Annex, lower area covered with the glass dome where the Main Salon is located, covering {{cvt|8000|m2|sqft}} with capacity of 2,000 invitees.

The building was constructed according to the system of the reinforced concrete skeleton structure, filled with bricks. The façade of the building is covered with the white Brač marble, whereas the openings were made of white metal.

With its architectural values, the Palace of the Federal Executive Council marked the period of creating the recognizable image of Novi Beograd and Belgrade in general.<ref>B. Mišić, The Palace of the Federal Executive Council – the symbol of one time, DaNS 63, Novi Sad, 2008, 52-53.</ref> It is one of the most distinctive landmarks of Novi Beograd and its firm urban hierarchy. The aesthetic and visual values of the building are emphasized with the special park design of the surrounding, with the accesses, parking lot, garages and the fountain, as well as with the general position of the building, which enables its incessant overview. Within the design of the immediate surroundings of the palace, and for the purpose of the visiting of the members of high delegations, the construction of the Park of Friendship was started, as one of the most specific green areas in the entire world.<ref>Cultural Heritage Protection Institute of the City of Belgrade, the magazine Heritage, I. Vesković, The Park of Friendship in Novi Beograd #http://beogradskonasledje.rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/11-ivana-veskovic.pdf retrieved on 28 March 2016.</ref>

In 2013, the palace, along with the works of fine and applied arts, which constitute its integral part, was inscribed on the list of [[Cultural heritage|immovable cultural property]] as the [[National heritage site|cultural monument]].

==See also==
* [[List of buildings in Belgrade]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Palace of Serbia}}

{{Belgrade Architecture}}

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Palace of Serbia
Палата Србије
Palace of Serbia is located in Belgrade
Palace of Serbia
Location within Belgrade
General information
StandortNovi Beograd, Belgrade
Address2 Bulevar Mihajla Pupina
Coordinates44°49′13″N 20°25′40″E / 44.82028°N 20.42778°E / 44.82028; 20.42778
Construction started1947
Completed1959
OwnerGovernment of Serbia
Technical details
Floor area65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)Mihailo Janković
Other designersVladimir Potočnjak, Anton Urlih, Zlatko Nojman, Dragica Perak

The Palace of Serbia (Serbian: Палата Србије, romanized: Palata Srbije) is a government building currently housing several cabinet level ministries and site for state visits of foreign head of states to Serbia. Building is located in Novi Beograd, Belgrade.[1]

Name

The official name of the building is Palace of the Federal Executive Council (Serbian: Палата Савезног извршног већа, romanized: Palata Saveznog izvršnog veća; abbr. SIV) as it was originally used by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia and is registered by that name in the Registry of Cultural Properties. In the 1990s, after the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, building was informally known as the Palace of the Federation (Serbian: Палата Федерације, romanized: Palata Federacije), and after the restoration of independence of Serbia in 2006, the building got its name "Palace of Serbia", although it has never been officially renamed.[2][3]

History

Palace of the Federal Executive Council

Architectural design competition for the new building of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia was announced in 1946.[4] The accepted project from the group of architects from Zagreb included the exterior 'H' shape designed by lead architect Vladimir Potočnjak and his team: Anton Urlih, Zlatko Nojman and Dragica Perak.

The Palace was initially conceived as the part of the public ensemble of public buildings, but such programme was reduced by the adoption of the General Urban Plan of the City of Belgrade in 1950, according to which the Palace, along with the Hotel Yugoslavia, remained secluded on the right bank of the Danube. Other planned objects next to it included the Museum of the Revolution, in the section between the building, the modern Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and the planned building of the Radio Television Belgrade.[4]

Construction began in 1948 but was halted only a year later. By that time, only the "skeletons" of the side wings and part of the central annex were finished.[4][5] The project was taken over by Mihailo Janković who designed the interior of the structure and oversaw its construction when the construction works resumed works in 1955 until completion in 1959.[5][4] The original plans were designed according to the Socialist realism aesthetics, as Yugoslavia at that time was an ally of the Soviet Union. However, after the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, many things in the state changed, so the new project by Janković was Modernistic instead.[4]

The building was constructed by the Youth Work Brigades from all around Yugoslavia. Janković significantly changed the original design by adding some new elements and not leaving much of the original project, except for the overall H shape.[4] The central annex on the river side was demolished and instead of one main entrance, two were projected, with the ceremonial one being the one in the modern Bulevar Mihajla Pupina.[4] The design by an architect Janković and his team also brought in significant changes in interior organization. He kept the urban disposition, basic measures and mutual relations of certain tracts from the original design, whereas the main changes concerned the interior spatial organization. According to the altered design, the central part with the Banquet Hall, all the annexes around the building as well as the façade were constructed. By shifting the main entrance to the southern side, the entire building got accentuated orientation towards the future settlement. Along with the representative hall placed on the first floor of the newly designed annex, a number of extra lounges, conference halls, twenty-eight cabinets for the members of the Federal Executive Council, about sixty offices for the administration, as well as the following space for garaging vehicles were anticipated by the new programme of the interior design.

The First Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in the building in 1961. The first session of the Federal Executive Council in the new building was held at 29 April 1961. The Palace of Federal Executive Council, later Palace of Serbia, received many foreign statesmen and delegations ever since.[6]

Palace of the Federation

In the 1990s, after the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, building was informally known as the Palace of the Federation and was used as the seat of almost all federal institutions of the newly-formed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later renamed State Union of Serbia and Montenegro): Federal Governement (later renamed Council of Ministers) and the Prime Minister, federal ministries (with the exception of Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and the Federal Constitutional Court.

Palace of Serbia

Since the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, building is used as the seat of several cabinet-level ministries: Ministry of Internal Affairs (housed in the western wing), Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue, Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography, Ministry of Rural Welfare, Ministry of Tourism and Youth and the Ministry of Sports, as well as the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

Ceremonial site for state visits

Plateau and Central Annex, site for state visits of foreign heads of states

The Palace of Serbia is used as site for reception ceremonies for state visits of foreign heads of states. On the plateau in front of the Central Annex of the palace, visiting head of state is greeted upon arrival by the President of the Republic, followed by the playing of the two national anthems by a Band of the Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces and review of Honor Guard Battalion of the Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces. The ceremony is concluded with introduction of the delegation accompanying the visiting head of state as well as the delegation of the President of Serbia. Reception ceremony is then followed by the bilateral meetings in one of the salons in Central Annex of the palace.

Architecture

Its H-shaped base covers an area of approximately 65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft) thus making Palace of Serbiua the largest building by area in the country. Palace of Serbia consists of 744 offices, about 30 m² each, 13 conference rooms, six salons, three large halls and two garages.[3]

Great Hall, Central Annex

The building was constructed in the mixed stripped down classicist (the main structure) and modernist (the glass domed great hall with front entrance) architectural styles.[5] Common misconception about the building, due to lack of such buildings in Belgrade in general, is that it is an example of Socialist Realism/Stalinist style in architecture. While it is the most monumental building of the early socialist period, unfamiliar with Soviet construction of the time, yet familiar with the term used for it, come to this obviously erroneous conclusion.

The representative exterior matches the luxuriously designed interior, also realized according to the architect Mihailo Janković's design, which places this building among the pioneer examples of the „total design“ in domestic architecture. The unique interior design, with numerous works of fine and applied arts, gives the building the character of some kind of a gallery of Yugoslav Modern art. The interior, as well as the exterior design was supposed to reflect the power, the greatness, the stability and the integrity of new Yugoslavia. The interior decoration design included artistic decoration of the walls with the mosaic technique, graffiti and fresco-painting, as well as by placing free-standing sculptures and reliefs, which was the specific assignment given to the special artistic commission. The design of the lounges dedicated to all six of the federal republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, located in the central part of the palace, was based on the accentuation of the traditional motifs, characteristic for every federal unit of the country. The Yugoslav Salon represented the largest and at the same time the most representative room in the palace. The peculiar design of this salon was seen in the monumental frescoes by Petar Lubarda,[7] and Lazar Vujaklija,[8] as well as the triptych-mosaic The Creation of Yugoslavia, the work of Mladen Srbinović.[9] The solemn character of this room was particularly emphasized by the crystal chandelier hanging from the dome, with more than two thousand five hundred light bulbs, and the weight of nine tons.

Main Salon, Central Annex

The works of Yugoslav's fine and applied arts characterize the interior design of the building. Among them, the ones which particularly stand out for their artistic, cultural and historical importance are the works of the following authors: Petar Lubarda, Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, Matija Vuković, Ante Gržetić, Sava Sandić, Vincent Beneš, Boža Ilić, Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Predrag-Peđa Milosavljević, Stojan Aralica, Bora Baruh, Lazar Ličenoski, Branislav Nemet, Vera Čohadžić, France Slana, Milivoj Uzelac, Ferdo Majer, Lazar Vujaklija, Mladen Srbinović, Matija Rodiči, Branko Subotić-Sube, Jože Ciuha, Lazar Vozarević, Janez Bernik, Vojo Dimitrijević, Drago Tihec, Milan Konjović, Ivan Radović, Marinko Benzon, Boško Petrović, Ratomir Stojadinović, Dragi Trajanovski, Jovan Bijelić, Zora Petrović, Olivera Kangrga, Vojin Bakić, Ignjat Job, Boško Petrović, Olivera Petrović, Olivera Galović, Milica Zorić, Lazar Vozarević, Oton Gliha, Jagoda Bujić, Vida Jocić, Milo Milunović, Sreten Stojanović, Risto Stijović, Mira Sandić, Nebojša Mitrić, Andrej Jemec, Drago Tršar, Branko Filipović-Filo, Drago Ordev, Slavko Atanasovski Krstanče, Bogosav Živković, Tone Kralj, Ratomir Gligorijević, Jovan Rakidžić, Stevan Dukić, Marin Pregelj, Drinka Radovanović.

In front of the medium wing there is a Central Annex, lower area covered with the glass dome where the Main Salon is located, covering 8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft) with capacity of 2,000 invitees.

The building was constructed according to the system of the reinforced concrete skeleton structure, filled with bricks. The façade of the building is covered with the white Brač marble, whereas the openings were made of white metal.

With its architectural values, the Palace of the Federal Executive Council marked the period of creating the recognizable image of Novi Beograd and Belgrade in general.[10] It is one of the most distinctive landmarks of Novi Beograd and its firm urban hierarchy. The aesthetic and visual values of the building are emphasized with the special park design of the surrounding, with the accesses, parking lot, garages and the fountain, as well as with the general position of the building, which enables its incessant overview. Within the design of the immediate surroundings of the palace, and for the purpose of the visiting of the members of high delegations, the construction of the Park of Friendship was started, as one of the most specific green areas in the entire world.[11]

In 2013, the palace, along with the works of fine and applied arts, which constitute its integral part, was inscribed on the list of immovable cultural property as the cultural monument.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Selidba državnih institucija" (in Serbian). Večernje novosti. 5 August 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  2. ^ "Sablasno prazna Palata sa 744 sobe" (in Serbian). B92. 20 February 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Direkcija: U Palati nema mesta" (in Serbian). B92. 5 February 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Dejan Aleksić (5 November 2017), "Loša izolacija, podzemne vode i manjak para i u "zlatno doba"" [Bad insulation, groundwater and lack of funds even in the "golden age"], Politika (in Serbian)
  5. ^ a b c "Palace of Serbia". Tourist Organization of Belgrade. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  6. ^ Sednica SIV-a na kojoj je podnet izveštaj o putovanju po afričkim zemljama. foto.mij.rs
  7. ^ The group of authors, Lubarda 1907-2007, Between the image of nature and the nature of the image, the catalogue from the exhibition, Belgrade 2008; The House of Legacy #http://www.kucalegata.org/legati/petarlubarda.html Archived 2017-03-11 at the Wayback Machine retrieved on 28 March 2016.
  8. ^ J. Despotović, Lazar Vujaklija – Wanderings among the gardens with many flowers, 18 October 2000. Available on #http://www.jovandespotovic.com/?page_id=7643 retrieved on 28 March 2016.
  9. ^ Mladen Srbinović #http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=1279 Archived 2016-10-05 at the Wayback Machine retrieved on 28 March 2016.
  10. ^ B. Mišić, The Palace of the Federal Executive Council – the symbol of one time, DaNS 63, Novi Sad, 2008, 52-53.
  11. ^ Cultural Heritage Protection Institute of the City of Belgrade, the magazine Heritage, I. Vesković, The Park of Friendship in Novi Beograd #http://beogradskonasledje.rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/11-ivana-veskovic.pdf retrieved on 28 March 2016.
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