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Double Villa Bukovac / njiric+ arhitekti

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

A Dialogue with the Urban Master Plan - The concept for the house emerges as a direct response - and critique - of the General Urban Development Plan of the City of Zagreb. The lots on which the house stands intentionally diverge from conventional urban planning guidelines regarding building density, land utilization, building height, and parking requirements. Rather than conforming to these norms, the project embraces a vision of reimagining the green foothills of Zagreb for a lower-density residential typology—favoring smaller volumes, lower structures, a gentler footprint and larger plots with a minimum area of 1200 m2. In this way, the house becomes a case study proposing a new form of urban decency for the city.

Land Registry in an Old Riding Stable / MORE Architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The reconstruction of the former Riding Stable was an exceptionally complex project of transforming a building from 1903 into a contemporary space for the Land Registry Department of the Municipal Civil Court in Zagreb. The building is part of the forthcoming Justice Square in Zagreb, and a result of winning design from an urban and architectural competition. This project is intended to enclose all of Zagreb's courts in one location.

Courtyard House / MVA Mikelić Vreš Arhitekti

Paula Pintos — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The house for a family of five, located in the attractive residential part of the city of Zagreb, is designed as a hybrid between a patio house and an archetypal volume.

Campus Infobip / 3LHD

Luciana Pejić — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Due to its rapid growth, the unicorn IT company Infobip commissioned a new hybrid building in Zagreb. The company chose a location on the southern edge of Zagreb that is well connected in terms of infrastructure. The plot is located in an entropic and poorly regulated area with low-rise medium-density multi-dwelling buildings lacking both articulated public space and natural surroundings.

Educational Complex Središće / SANGRAD+AVP architects + Flansburgh Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The complex is a set of orthogonal volumes along the eastern margin of the plot keeping the same perimeter and strict height relationship. The American school forms the northeast corner, the Croatian elementary school the southeast, and the kindergarten is a neutral, low structure in the middle.

3LHD Architects Designs New Campus for Croatian Car Manufacturer Rimac

Andreea Cutieru — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:30:00 +0000

Designed by 3LHD Architects, the new campus for the Croatian electric hypercar manufacturer Rimac brings together a wide array of programs and spaces, from production plant and offices to kindergarten, dormitory and even a sheep meadow. Located in the outskirts of Zagreb, within a natural landscape, the Rimac Campus is organized around two main volumes that follow the site’s natural topography, with several accompanying facilities tucked underneath a green roof that stretches out, meeting the surrounding landscape.

Primary School Ivanja Reka / Submap + J.K.A. Arhitekti

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Ivanja Reka Primary School is located in area where Zagreb's urban tissue meets the suburban one, in the conflict zone between the urban sprawl and large-scale metropolitan infrastructures (shopping malls, industrial warehouses and traffic mega structures). Built on Sava's old river bed, plagued by potential flooding and unstable soil.

South East European Center for Entrepreneurial Learning / SZA d.o.o

Valeria Silva — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

In between. The newly built structure is complex, establishes and forms its own world, equal and self-sufficient. The interior is unexpected, closed and open, it belongs to both the street and the house. A density has been created that allows programs and functions to exist in space and time experiencing various daily changes.

Sava Installation / Openact Architecture + Sara Palomar Studio

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Sava Activities is an on-going public urban design project aiming to reintroduce the riverbanks of Zagreb’s Sava River to the daily life of the city. Initiated as a competition proposal in 2015, the project had been developed around the flood related characteristics of the river. Unlike the other European capitals which are established around a river, Zagreb’s urban growth had been formed with a tendency to move away from Sava.

Building History: Croatia's Secluded Homes Rethinking Tradition

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Croatia has long been a crossroads of culture. Located along the Adriatic Sea, it borders five countries and has some of the richest biodiversity in Europe. The built environment reflects influences from Central Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as both the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Today, a series of new housing projects are reinterpreting the country's past as architects and designers look to reimagine what the future holds.

Urania Cinema Transformation / 3LHD

Andreas Luco — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Urania Cinema/Theatre is one of numerous old cinema buildings built in the city of Zagreb in the early 20th century. Those cinemas were spread within the urban blocks across Zagreb’s Downtown. With the opening of new and modern multiplex theatres 20 years ago, the old Zagreb cinemas have gradually started to die out, and the buildings, neglected and empty, started to deteriorate. The old Urania cinema is a typical back-building in the block of Kvaternik Square. Although built in 1939, the entire concrete structure of the building was very well preserved with all the supporting pillars, the main arches in the large hall and all the ceilings. The ceilings are a special example as one of the first concrete structures with longitudinal repetitive narrow structural ribs from that period. That beautiful example of early concrete engineering technology was worth preserving, restoring and renovating.

7 Winning Unbuilt Projects Submitted by our Readers

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:35:00 +0000

Every day we receive hundreds of submission forms from our readers, who want to share their work on our platform. Known for our interest in young talent, we encourage people to communicate their ideas, projects, and views on architecture. In order to share more of our readers’ work, we have rounded up in this first article the winning competition entries from the unbuilt section.

Bužanova Apartments / 3LHD

Andreas Luco — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Bužanova Apartments is a new housing block developed in cooperation with the client, VMD model. It is situated in the center of Zagreb, five minutes walking distance from Kvaternik Square, in a quiet street with an abundance of greenery, but within reach of the city bustle. The architectural concept of the building is inspired by the pure form of Zagreb Lower Town blocks. With classic elegance and proportion of openings, the block consists of two volumes on the corner of two peaceful, urban green streets. A load-bearing façade and central structural cores with staircases allow flexible and adaptable apartment floorplans. They can be easily transformed and personalized according to client ideas.

SUPERSPACE Proposes Timber Observation Tower and Vertical Forest for Zagreb

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Istanbul-based SUPERSPACE has proposed a new concept for a pocketed timber observation tower in Zagreb, Croatia. Designed to be an iconic gate, the project would be sited between the old and new city. Called Ascension, the project takes inspiration from Zagreb's historical and natural iconic landmarks. Facing the south bank of River Sava, the tower's form is derived from the character of the old town's existing towers integrated with a new vertical forest.

University Innovation - Biocenter / KATUŠIĆ KOCBEK ARCHITECTS

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The circular form corresponds to the beginning, and leaves open the possibility of forming the main directions and groups of objects within the future new solution for campus. At the same time, communicational circular corridor is continuous communication between laboratories, which has no beginning and no end, nor hierarchy between the individual spaces.

Educational Complex Kajzerica / Sangrad + AVP

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 20 May 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The concept of the Cultural – Educational Complex in Kajzerica has been deducted from a contextual inspiration: by shifting the direction of the buildings from the street of the old Kajzerica Neighbourhood, we get a public area and an extension of the urban space under a green canopy. The lifted classroom volume slabs are outdoing the access to the school yard, opening transparency, lucidity, continuity and relations within the site, metaphorically substituting crowns and shadows of the trees, freeing the public space and rendering an artificial forest merged with the authentic green surface.

House B / SODAA

Valentina Villa — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:00:00 +0000

The plot for the construction of a family house is situated on the slopes of Medvednica, in the northwestern part of the city. The terrain is an ideal south-facing slope.

Zagreb Airport / Kincl + Neidhardt + Institut IGH

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 10 May 2017 02:00:00 +0000

New on the architectural scene is the passenger terminal of Franjo Tudman Zagreb Airport, now impressively inaugurated in the finale to the big international competition of 2008 that attracted 17 entries, including three from Pritzker Prize winners – architect Shigeru Ban (2 nd prize), Norman Foster (3 rd prize) and Zaha Hadid (5 th prize). Ultimately, the international jury awarded the first prize to the Croatian design team.