Belgrade Cooperative Bank

Belgrade Cooperative was a cooperative bank founded in 1882, while that was still a honest business, to promote savings and support small enterprises, craftspeople and the poor of Belgrade. But the building on the photo was built in 1907, after the bloody cue and the replacement of the Obrenović dynasty, with the dynasty of Karađorđević. Autocratic regime was replaced by liberal bourgeois regime, and for a short period, the civil liberties were increased and the economic situation was improved.

Belgrade Cooperative Building was built according to the project by two leading Belgrade architects of the time, University professors, Andra Stevanović and Nikola Nestorović. It was designed in the style of academism, but with mixed styles, with elements borrowed from both eclectic academic style, as well as contemporary Art Nouveau architecture. Some may simply call that style — Decorativism.

Belgrade Cooperative Building is a cultural monument of value for the Republic of Serbia since 1979.

Golden Hill

Villa “Golden Hill” was the summer house of the Obrenovic dynasty. Built in a most beautiful area, facing the north, to the Danube and the Banat plains, it was the favorite resort of royal couples. It is so popular that it often seemed that the court has moved to Smederevo…

It is also known as the “King’s Vineyard” and as a villa “Plavinac”. Here you can see a view from the villa over the Danube…

Constructivism

Our @mister-omortson, architect and artist from Russia, has send one of his works in style of Constructivism, the architectural movement started in the former Soviet Union around 1920, on the principles of Suprematism, Neo-plasticism and Bauhaus. The movement did not last long, just until 1932, but it had a strong influence that can be seen in architecture today…