Degradative urbanistic and architectural aspects of the project "Belgrade Waterfront" (2012-2016)

Abstract

Urbanistically intrusive and civilizationally controversial, the planned "Belgrade Waterfront" project (2012-2016) has come under uncompromising criticism from the experts since the very first public presentation. Imposing dull simplified geometric structures and urbanistic concepts appropriate to the climate and social needs of the main investor from the Middle East, the project radically changes visual identity of the Serbian capital profiled over the last two centuries of independent architectural development. Devoid of the common, plain typology, morphology and customary coloring of the Euro-Mediterranean urban tradition, it interacts with the existing spatial-cultural matrix in a degradative way.