'Palata Beograd' in Belgrade

With its characteristic appearance and height, which had until that time not been seen in Belgrade - nor Yugoslav - architecture, architect Branko Pešić's unique construction, Palata Beograd, built between 1969 and 1974, paved the way for a new vision of the multi-storey buildings of the modern city. To date, Palata Beograd, popularly called Beograđanka, has not been the subject of any major scientific research, although it has remained a constant topic in the daily and popular press for many years, and has also been addressed as a case study among other constructions by researchers of post-war architecture. As the largest skyscraper in the region, having been executed in the aesthetics of International Style architecture, and the original work of a single author, it has been inscribed as a property under preliminary protection of the Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade, as representative of the legacy of its era and a reminder of prosperity and construction boom that characterized 1970s Belgrade. Half a century after its construction, the chronology of its origins and erection still testifies to the social, architectural and cultural significance of this building.