The construction of blocks 21, 22, 23 of the New Belgrade's Central zone and their significance in Belgrade's cultural heritage

Abstract

The architectural and urbanistic analysis of the first residential blocks - 21, 22 and 23 - of the Central zone of New Belgrade represents a highly complex process of researching and analyzing the historical, political and architectural conditions for developing a new city, across an area free of any inherited urbanistic layers. The area stands as a macro environment constructed over the second half of the 20th century, based on the 1962 Regulation plan of New Belgrade. Nowadays, the New Belgrade blocks symbolize the social care policy of the SFRY period, the mass industrialization of the construction sector supported by the state in economic, political and logistical aspects, as well as an overall competition policy enabling gradual development of procedural, institutional and scientific-technological framework, positively representing the state image. Though modeled by the international examples and the early-stage Soviet socialist realism, the Central zone architecture displays an authentic architectural and artistic identity, thus being designated as part of the immovable cultural heritage and an area under prior protection.