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24-516: Park Proleće is located in the south central part of Stari Grad. It is encircled with the streets of Carice Milice on the east, Topličin Venac on the south and west and Vuka Karadžića on the north. East of the park is the Tanjug Building while on the north is the kafana Proleće. Museum of Applied Arts is also on the north while Hotel Palace is on the west. It is directly connected to

48-595: A guest lecturer at Lausanne , Paris , Venice , Philadelphia , London , Harvard-Cambridge , Boston and Vienna. From 1988 until 2006 he was full professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space. He is a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Boris Podrecca became famous with the exhibition of

72-806: Is an acronym of its full original native name, T elegrafska a gencija n ove Jug oslavije ("Telegraphic Agency of New Yugoslavia"). From 1975 to the mid-1980s, Tanjug had a leading role in the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP), a collaborating group of news agencies of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Tanjug professionals helped equip and train journalists and technicians of state media in other NAM countries, mainly in Africa and South Asia . On 31 October 2015, according to media reports, Tanjug ceased its operations due to financial problems. The state secretary in

96-639: Is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism . He took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms with some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute at Starhemberg Palace (1982), He was born in Belgrade , Serbia (then in Yugoslavia ), to a Slovene father and a Serb mother. His father was a Slovene immigrant from the Italian border region known as Julian March (Venezia Giulia), who had fled to

120-722: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia to escape persecution from the Italian Fascist regime . His original Slovene surname, Podreka, had been Italianized to Podrecca in the early 1930s. After World War II , the family moved to Trieste , Italy, where Boris attended a Slovene language elementary school. In the 1960s, he moved to Vienna to study architecture at the University of Technology , where he graduated in 1968 with Professor Roland Rainer . From 1979 to 1981 he worked as an assistant at Technical University of Munich and later, as

144-472: The Knez Mihailova Street 50 m (160 ft) to the northeast and Obilićev Venac on the east. Beneath the park are remains of the urban zone of Singidunum , Roman predecessor of Belgrade. Just like the discovered underground remains on the nearby square of Studentski Trg , they were conserved and reburied. Location was part of the Šanac ("trench"), the protective trench built on

168-467: The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , which formed a legacy which was declared a cultural monument. In principle, the Academy agreed to cede the sculptures. The concrete pathways will be replaced with the stone dust. The surrounding streets, whether part of the pedestrian zone or open for traffic, will be paved with stone slabs. The reconstruction should last from April to the autumn of 2018. However,

192-541: The Belgrade-based private company Tanjug Tačno , owned by Minacord Media (the majority owner being Željko Joksimović ) and Radiotelevizija Pančevo, acquired the right to use the intellectual property and trademarks of the agency for 10 years. Boris Podrecca Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 in Belgrade ) is a Slovene - Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna , Austria . Podrecca

216-512: The Ministry of Culture and Information dispelled these rumors, but acknowledged the agency's difficulties and said that a public–private partnership could be the solution. The agency continued working, signing contracts with state bodies and winning various public tenders and related work. Most of its employees were working on part-time contracts without guaranteed working rights. On 9 March 2021, Tanjug officially ceased to exist. Since then,

240-532: The free Wi-Fi internet, was set in the park. On 30 August 2021, city assembly voted to erect a monument in Topličin Venac, dedicated to the writer and humorist Duško Radović . The park has been named Proleće ( spring ), after the kafana of the same name located there since 1870. It later became especially popular among the professors and students of the Belgrade University . Present restaurant

264-581: The objections included the price: on average, renovation of 100 m (330 ft) of the street would cost €850,000. As the protests were held concurrently with the protests at the Republic Square, against the square's renovation project, city assembly adopted a "conclusion" that city will sue everyone blocking the works. However the protest continued and on 30 May 2019 city announced that the Podrecca's project will be abandoned: trees won't be cut,

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288-574: The orders by the Austrian Generalissimo Ernst Gideon von Laudon during the Austrian occupation of northern Serbia from 1717 to 1739 . Belgrade's first chief urbanist, Emilijan Josimović , devised a plan in 1867 for the system of "green groves" along the former route of the trench, which now divided old part of the city from the newer neighborhoods. The green belt was also to include avenues , promenades, etc. The plan

312-556: The park by the occupational forces, commemorating the fallen soldiers during the battles for Belgrade. It had Austro-Hungarian symbols - crossed arms, a helmet and the motto of the empire Viribus Unitis . Despite having the ornamentation of the enemy army, the fountain survived until 1928, 10 years after the Belgrade was liberated. In the central area of the park, there is a monument to military commander Vojin Popović (1881-1916), who

336-452: The park will remain with added trees, it won't be part of the widened pedestrian zone while it remained unclear where the Jevrić's sculptures will be exhibited. Residents quit the blockade and the new deadline was set for 1 September 2019, when the reconstructed park was reopened. New, much cheaper project of the more greener park with an open-air stage and the streets open for traffic around it,

360-428: The petitions on the square, organizing protests on the location and 24-hours a day "guards", forming human chains , blocking the machines and also blocking and escorting workers from the construction site as they had no official work orders. There were even physical skirmishes with a group of anonymous non-residents who gathered and engaged the protesters. Apart from the urban, traffic, aesthetic and humane reasons, one of

384-426: The trees, transforming the park into the mini square and cutting it off from the traffic is part of the wider action by the city government to close the entire downtown for traffic and pave green areas with granite slabs. Local residents began to protest even before the works started, but the protesting became physical since September 2018. Described as employing the "guerrilla tactics", the residents organized signing of

408-472: The works didn't start as planned and the reconstruction began suddenly on 21 September 2018, without any official announcement, with a deadline in July 2019. The project includes also the surrounding streets. The streets of Vuka Karadžića and part of Topličin Venac will be adapted into the extended pedestrian zone, while the remaining streets around the park will become a traffic calming zone. Cutting some of

432-518: Was built in the 1950s. Since the monument has been built, the park was colloquially named after Vojvoda Vuk, and is also called the Park at Topličin Venac, after its location. In 2017 the central pedestrian zone along the Knez Mihailova was expanded into the both Vuka Karadžića and Obilićev Venac streets so the park was envisioned to become the part of the zone and to blend in it. Reconstruction

456-468: Was conceived in this park, can't be confirmed by historiography. After the Austrian-German offensive and the ensuing bloody street by street battle in 1915, especially in this and Dorćol area, an improvised Austrian-German military graveyard was located here as it was one of the rare green areas in the city at the time. It was removed in 1915-1916 when the memorial drinking fountain was built in

480-633: Was formed, but the park, though unarranged, existed prior to 1914 and the World War I . It was one of the open spaces where the revolutionaries of Young Bosnia gathered prior to the Assassination in Sarajevo in June 1914. They were concerned that they might be overheard by spies in the neighboring kafanas, so they made plans in city parks. However, the claim that the idea of the assassination itself

504-679: Was nicknamed Vojvoda Vuk. It was sculptured by Đorđe Jovanović in 1922, but was placed in the park on 10 October 1936. The monument has a skull with crossed bones on two sides. They are markings of the Chetniks guerilla from the 1903-1918 period, but were adopted by the Chetniks in World War II . Still, after the Communists, rivals of the Chetniks, took over in 1945, they didn't tear down the monument. In June 2009, an internet park with

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528-478: Was only partially conducted at the time, while the only two surviving parts of the plan are two small squares, at Topličin Venac, where the park is, and at Republic Square , in front of the Central Military Club building. At the corner of the modern park, industrialist Milan Vapa founded the first paper mill in Belgrade in 1905. In 1907 he relocated it to Kalenića Guvno . It is not known when it

552-515: Was presented in June 2019. Tanjug Tanjug (/'tʌnjʊg/) ( Serbian Cyrillic : Танјуг ; sometimes stylized as TANJUG ) was a Serbian state news agency based in Belgrade , which officially ceased to exist in March 2021. Since then, the Belgrade-based private company Tanjug Tačno has acquired the rights to use the intellectual property and trademarks of the former agency. Founded on 5 November 1943 as Yugoslavia 's official news agency, Tanjug

576-407: Was projected by architect Boris Podrecca as an homage to Olga Jevrić , described by Podrecca as the best Serbian female sculptor. The refurbished park is planned to have a new fountain, green pergolas , children playground, small staircase with inscriptions representing lyrics from the most popular Serbian poets and 10 Jevrić's sculptures. Jevrić, who died in 2014, bequeathed 147 of her works to

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