43rd SALON OF ARCHITECTURE - AWARDS
The Jury of the 43rd 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 43rd Salon of Architecture
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 43rd 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
for the realized project The Avala House, Belgrade / 2018–2020
Award in the Category of The Guest of the Salon
for the realized project Building T, Ghent, Belgium / 2012–2020
Award in the Category of Publications
for the realized project Architect Mustafa Musić
Award in the Category of Experiment and Research
for the realized project Save Our Home / 2020
Acknowledgement in the Category of Architecture
for the realized project Business and Production Facility, Zrenjanin / 2018–2020
Acknowledgement in the Category of The Guest of the Salon
for the realized project Beaver Centre (Nature Conservation Centre Sutla), Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia / 2016–2020
Acknowledgement in the Category of Interior Design
for the realized project TX Services, New Belgrade / 2019–2021
Acknowledgement in the Category of Experiment and Research
for the realized project Sound Drawing / 2019–2020
Acknowledgement in the Category of Publications
for the paper Omnibus: Short Stories on Housing Topics
Acknowledgement in the Category of The Review of Architecture
for the text Bequest to the Master Mason
Daily Politika, Culture Supplement, 6th December, 2020 (pdf)
Honours in the Category of Architecture
for the realized project Pedestrian Bridge from the Belgrade Fortress to the Sava Quay, Belgrade / 2016–2020
Honours in the Category of Architecture
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
Honours in the Category of Architecture
for the realized project Micro Cabin Mirka, Zasavica / 2019–2020
Honours in the Category of The Guest of the Salon
for the realized project Vila IB, Krasica, Croatia / 2012–2020
Honours in the Category of Interior Design
for the realized project Belle Blanc, Belgrade / 2017–2020
Honours in the Category of Experiment and Research
for the realized project Structuralization of Space by Means of Water – Aquatecture of the Park / 2020
In Belgrade, 12th May, 2021