#Multifunctional building #Novi Sad (Нови Сад) #Serbia #1933
Đorđe (Ђорђе) Tabaković (Табаковић)
Nikola (Никола) Tanurdžić (Танурџић)
Modene 1, 3
21000
Novi Sad (Нови Сад),
Serbia
Public transport: Uspenska
Today's use: Apartments and shops
Description
A building that, on the one hand, is located on the main square Trg slobode and thus has space to be recognised and, on the other hand, represents a transition to the many projects from the interwar period along the street Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. The house itself is part of a new urbanistic structure of the city in the 1930s.
The building itself is very impressive: with a 100 metre long frontage along Medene Street, the shops on the ground floor highlighted by large glass panes, the reinforced concrete awning and the five storeys. These five floors housed 35 flats. It is interesting to read that the caretaker lived on the top floor. In other houses of that time, the owners often lived on the top floor with a terrace. The Tanurdžić family, on the other hand, lived on the first floor, as was often the case at the turn of the century (piano nobile).
The house was largely built of concrete. Instead of the rather small windows, larger windows could have been designed due to the load-bearing capacity of concrete. Instead of this perforated façade, the house could have achieved a more impressive lightness with ribbon windows.
At that time, houses in Novi Sad were usually two storeys high with a pointed roof. The rich and influential owner and developer Tanurdžić also made himself visible with this house.
Description
A building that, on the one hand, is located on the main square Trg slobode and thus has space to be recognised and, on the other hand, represents a transition to the many projects from the interwar period along the street Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. The house itself is part of a new urbanistic structure of the city in the 1930s.
The building itself is very impressive: with a 100 metre long frontage along Medene Street, the shops on the ground floor highlighted by large glass panes, the reinforced concrete awning and the five storeys. These five floors housed 35 flats. It is interesting to read that the caretaker lived on the top floor. In other houses of that time, the owners often lived on the top floor with a terrace. The Tanurdžić family, on the other hand, lived on the first floor, as was often the case at the turn of the century (piano nobile).
The house was largely built of concrete. Instead of the rather small windows, larger windows could have been designed due to the load-bearing capacity of concrete. Instead of this perforated façade, the house could have achieved a more impressive lightness with ribbon windows.
At that time, houses in Novi Sad were usually two storeys high with a pointed roof. The rich and influential owner and developer Tanurdžić also made himself visible with this house.
History
Before construction work could begin in 1933, Nikola Tanurdžić and Đorđe Tabaković travelled to several European capitals to check what was considered modern. It is not clear exactly which cities they visited. Vienna, Prague and Berlin, each of which had many modernist buildings, can be assumed, possibly also Budapest. In the end, the construction work took quite a long time until 1939. The Tanurdžić family themselves lived in a 300 square metre flat on the first floor and next to the shops the building housed a cinema called Reks.
In 1939 until 1941 was added the Hotel Reks/Rex to the building.
The house was nationalised in 1946, so the family lost this house and was forced to move out. This paved the way for an extension of the the original hotel in 1981 for the Yugoslavian travel agency Putnik, as the former hotel Reks is called.
The building was returned to descendants in 2012.
History
Before construction work could begin in 1933, Nikola Tanurdžić and Đorđe Tabaković travelled to several European capitals to check what was considered modern. It is not clear exactly which cities they visited. Vienna, Prague and Berlin, each of which had many modernist buildings, can be assumed, possibly also Budapest. In the end, the construction work took quite a long time until 1939. The Tanurdžić family themselves lived in a 300 square metre flat on the first floor and next to the shops the building housed a cinema called Reks.
In 1939 until 1941 was added the Hotel Reks/Rex to the building.
The house was nationalised in 1946, so the family lost this house and was forced to move out. This paved the way for an extension of the the original hotel in 1981 for the Yugoslavian travel agency Putnik, as the former hotel Reks is called.
The building was returned to descendants in 2012.
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