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The first design for the Palace of the Assembly
was made by Konstantin A. Jovanović in
1891. At the open competition of 1901 for the
building on the area near the Batal mosque,
the winning work was that of Jovan Ilkić,
which is, in fact, a variant of Jovanović's
solution. The construction of the palace began
in 1907, and the cornerstone was laid by King
Petar I. The construction was not finished
until 1936. It was designed in the manner of
academic traditionalism, with rich interior
decoration, made
by, at that time, most famous artists and craftsmen.
In 1939, a monumental sculptural group made
by the famous sculptor Toma Rosandić was
placed in front of the main entrance. It was
named Black horses
are playing.
City Palaces: The City Palaces are located
at the center of Belgrade. The Old Palace, the
Royal Palace of the Obrenović dynasty
of Serbia, presently housing the City
Assembly of Belgrade, is situated
at the corner of Kralja Milana and Dragoslava
Jovanovića streets. It was built between
1882 and 1884, according to the design
of Aleksandar Bugarski, in the style of academism
of the XIX century, with intention to surpass
all existing residences of the Serbian rulers.
An English author Herbert Vivien, who visited
the Old Palace by the end of the XIX century,
described in detail its interior: "At the left
side, there is a fine ball room, with walls
of lemon-yellow color, with huge white luster
of Venetian glass, glistening nicely during
the state festivities, lit by electric light.
After passing the large reception hall, you
enter the banquet hall. Everything is glistening
in that hall: starting from the floor up to
the carved mahogany table. Some sixty guests
may be seated around that table. Leather-upholstered
chairs are of the color of autumn leaves.
What is most impressive, is the good taste
characterizing all objects, both those for
use and the adornments. The admiration is even
more caused by the beautiful carved ceilings,
inherited from the Turkish era and fashion..."
The New Palace: This is adjacent to the Old
Palace built during the Balkan Wars and The
Great War 1913-1918. The Architect was Stojan
Titelbah, and the unfinished building was heavily
damaged during the Austrian bombing of Belgrade
so that a thorough reconstruction had to take
place before the Court officially moved in.
The New Palace was put to regular from 1922
until the completion of the Royal Palace of
Dedinje, it was the official Home of King Aleksandar
I and Queen Maria. The New Palace was the living
quarters of the Royal Couple and King's Cabinet,
and it was here that King and Queen entertained
their private guests. After the assassination
of the King in Marseilles in 1934, The New
Palace was used as temporary location for the
Museum of Prince Paul.
The building for the Railway Station was constructed
in 1884, on a reclaimed area of what used to
be the Venice pool. It was
made by the ideas of the Viennese architect
von Schlicht and the plans of the architect
Dragutin Milutinović, the professor at
the Faculty of Engineering of the Great School
in Belgrade. In that time, it represented a
very successful solution, by the harmony of
architectural forms as well as by spatial
organization. It is in the group of architectural
projects which, in the Principality and later
Kingdom of Serbia, represented the first acceptance
and development of technical achievements of
Europe of that period.
Konak Kneginje Ljubice was built in 1829-1831
under the supervision of Hadži-Nikola Živković,
the pioneer of Serbian architecture in the
first half of XIX century. By the order of
Knez Miloš Obrenović it
was built as a living place for his family,
Kneginja (Princess) Ljubica and sons - Milan
and Mihailo. The building is preserved until
today as a most representative urban house
of the first half of XIX century. Its design
has all the characteristics of Oriental architecture,
and its variant, so-called Serbian-Balkan style,
but containing decorative elements of classicism
which announced the influence of the West on
the national architecture in the early period
of renewal of Serbian state. Since the throning
of Aleksandar Karađorđević in
1842, the building has been used as a Lice,
Court of Cassation and Appeal Court, Museum
of Art, Church Museum, Senior Home, Bureau
for Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia,
an today it is a part of the Museum of the
City of Belgrade and it is used for exhibitions
of museum material and paintings. The permanent
exhibition in the Konak consists of original
furniture, made in Oriental-Balkan style as
well as in other styles of that time (classicism,
Biedermeier, neo-baroque).
St. Mark's Church at Tašmajdan was
built in the 1931-1940 period at the place
where the old church from 1835 used to be.
It was designed by architects Petar and Branko
Krstić, in Serbian-Byzantine style. By
general architectural conception, forms and
polychrome of facades, this temple is most
like the Gračanica monastery. The equipping
and decoration of the temple is still unfinished.
At the south part is a sarcophagus with the
remains of Czar Dušan, brought here
from his endowment, the monastery of St. Michael
the Archangel near Prizren.
The temple is located in the
eastern part of Svetosavski Trg. The construction
preparations have lasted for a very long time,
ever since 1894. At the second open competition
in 1926 the architectural design of the architect
Bogdan Nestorović was selected, with later
incorporation of several elements of the project
of the architect Aleksandar Deroko. The consecration
of the foundations was made by Patriarch Varnava
on September 15, 1935, and when the works have
moved ahead, Patriarch Gavrilo consecrated
and placed the charter in the altar, next to
the cornerstone on May 27, 1939. Further construction
was interrupted by the German attack on Yugoslavia
on April 6, 1941. It was not until the summer
1984 that the state permission was obtained
to continue the construction works, so on April
30, 1985, the temple, desecrated by war and
human negligence, was consecrated again by
Patriarch German in the presence of all Serbian
hierarchies, and the charter on continuing
construction works in new historical circumstances
was laid again. Branko Pešić, an
architect and university professor was appointed
protomaster of the construction. Although still
under construction, this monumental temple
represents an organic part of modern vivid
image of Belgrade, being one of its main features.
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