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43rd SALON OF ARCHITECTURE - AWARDS

Report of the Jury of the 43^rd Salon of Architecture

The Jury of the 43^rd Salon of Architecture, consisting of:

Dejan Todorović, Chairperson
Vladimir Anđelković
Ognjen Đurović
Nada Jelić
Dejan Miljković

We have, more or less successfully, exited the period when the flats’ walls were occupied by numerous paintings, graphic prints, even Gobelins as well as meticulously framed reproductions of various objects that all together dominated portraits and still lifes. These artworks depicted a great variety of objects – from well-known religious buildings, through countryside mills, anonymous houses, all the way to the landscapes of Montmartre and Gardoš. All of them were situated on a couple of walls and were hung in order in which they entered the house and not in any logic order. Not a single work was moved in case the nail did not fit it. Not a single work had ever been taken off except when it was time to paint the walls. And the more frames, the better – perhaps for the owner’s status. As children, it bothered us that our heroes from comics, and later from the rock & roll world, were not standing in those frames. However, we grew up next to these works and thus inevitably and unconsciously learned about architecture. All of us. Today, rarely anyone paints objects, and even less often they hang them on the walls of their flats. Old paintings end up next to a container or in a basement, replaced by an abstraction of life in the form of Instagram, while Đole Balašević’s songs are still hummed around. And these songs are not written in any foreign language. Just as neither are the works of all the authors exhibiting at the Salon of Architecture – all these courageous, determined fighters who use an understandable language to place architecture where it really belongs. And let’s just hope that we will not run out of nails.

The Jury awards the following prizes:

Grand Prix of the 43^rd Salon of Architecture

goes to the authors: Slaviša Kondić, Mirko Stanimirović, Milan Tanić, Vojislav Nikolić, Milan Brzaković, Miljana Ignjatović, Biserka Jovanović, Andrija Čolović, Marija Marinković, Nemanja Ranđelović, Marija Nikolić

for the realized project The Multi-purpose Lamella, an extension to the building of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš / 2017–2020

The Jury’s explanation:

Functional improvement of the building, its moderate differentiation and subtlety of architectural expression, along with the creation of a new urban and architectural value of the building made the Jury decide, by a majority of vote, to award the Grand Prix of the 43^rd Salon of Architecture to the extension of the building of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš.

The newly designed part of the building harmoniously stands out with its form and materialization, refraining from the authors’ unnecessary self-display. Thus, it respects the existing architecture of the building, indicates a clear boundary and simultaneously shows the harmony between the two architectural languages. What’s more, the newly designed part of the building unequivocally indicates a modern architectural approach.

This work is essentially characterised by the authors’ understanding and improvement of the functionalities of the existing building. The authors integrated and extended the existing functional scheme very well, and thus created a new quality of both functional and urban environment.

Award in the Category of Architecture

goes to the authors of TEN studio: Nemanja Zimonjić, Ognjen Krašna, Jana Kulić, Miodrag Grbić

for the realized project The Avala House, Belgrade / 2018–2020

Award in the Category of The Guest of the Salon

goes to the authors: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga

for the realized project Building T, Ghent, Belgium / 2012–2020

Award in the Category of Publications

goes to the authors: Boris Podreka, Zoran Lazović, Milan Lojanica, Mustafa Musić, Ela Nešić

for the realized project Architect Mustafa Musić

Award in the Category of Experiment and Research

goes to the author: Andrej Josifovski

for the realized project Save Our Home / 2020

Acknowledgement in the Category of Architecture

goes to the authors: Ivan Urban, Sanja Urban

for the realized project Business and Production Facility, Zrenjanin / 2018–2020

Acknowledgement in the Category of The Guest of the Salon

goes to the authors: Andrej Strehovac, Robert Potokar

for the realized project Beaver Centre (Nature Conservation Centre Sutla), Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia / 2016–2020

Acknowledgement in the Category of Interior Design

goes to the authors: Branko Nikolić, Petar Savić, Milan Stefanović, Sonja Tonev, Ana Spasojević, Ksenija Josifović

for the realized project TX Services, New Belgrade / 2019–2021

Acknowledgement in the Category of Experiment and Research

goes to the author: Snežana Zlatković and co-authors: Slađana Aničić, Tamara Vukotić, Branko Gulan, Olga Dukić, Boris Ivanović, Đorđe Kekić, Nikolina Lalić, Bojana Mijatov, Mladen Ostojić, Jefimija Popović, Jovana Ropčević, Andrea Stanković

for the realized project Sound Drawing / 2019–2020

Acknowledgement in the Category of Publications

goes to the authors: Vladimir Lojanica, Maja Dragišić, Pavle Stamenović, Ivana Rakonjac, Jelena Ristić Trajković

for the paper Omnibus: Short Stories on Housing Topics

Acknowledgement in the Category of The Review of Architecture

goes to the author: Snežana Ristić

for the text Bequest to the Master Mason

Daily Politika, Culture Supplement, 6^th December, 2020 (pdf)

Honours in the Category of Architecture

goes to the authors: Mrđan Bajić, Richard Deacon, Tatjana Danilović, Jelena Milošević, Siniša Mihajlović

for the realized project Pedestrian Bridge from the Belgrade Fortress to the Sava Quay, Belgrade / 2016–2020

Honours in the Category of Architecture

goes to the authors: Dejan Milanović, Grozdana Šišović

for the realized project Residential Building 1 of the First Phase of the Project on Urban Regeneration of the Residential Area in Dositejeva Street, Kraljevo / 2015–2021