An extension, a problem or a solution for bourgeois construction? The villas of Ljubljana, which are scattered around the “suburbs” of pre-modern Ljubljana in Poljane, Mir, Rozhná dolina, southern Bežigrad and lower Šiška, have some common features that are uncharacteristic of modern forms of living. As single-family buildings with a single entrance, they are significantly […]
We recreated the atmosphere of an oriental casbah by intertwining the themes and characters of the apartment. Modern multi-family housing construction nowadays rarely has the luxury of three-way orientation. For the most part, modern tenants and homebuyers are “condemned” to one-side-only lighting. Their perception of changing daily conditions and the passage of time is reduced […]
An equal dialogue between the old and the new library building, between the traditional and the modern concept of raising awareness of knowledge and the importance of the written word. The new city library is the result of a winning project in a public competition. Of all the competition options submitted, we were the only […]
The North City Gate, a place of many opportunities and views – a residential and commercial building on Ljubljana’s northern entrance road. The layout plan for the northern part of Vienna Road, adopted in the early 1990s, was based on the bold visual-spatial assumption that a relatively low, compact, mixed-use row of buildings would be […]
Can traffic become a park, or how to deal with the fact that an elevated car park is planned in a prominent urban location? The Ljubljana Clinical Centre Urban Master Plan envisages the siting of two above-ground car parks to relieve traffic congestion in the area and to provide visitors with easy, transparent and accessible […]
The division of the gallery into smaller exhibition spaces can be changed at the touch of a hand. Before the renovation, the Jakopič Gallery was mainly used by the Association of Artists’ Societies for classical painting exhibitions. The 1,000 square metre space was surrounded by a white plasterboard wall that concealed the architectural and structural […]
A system solution for a wide range of locations in the city centre and on the outskirts of the city. In 2002, the Municipality of Ljubljana launched an international competition for a new look for bus stops, combined with urban advertising. In cooperation with Prorekla Europlakat, we have designed a simple standard bus stop which, […]
“Šmartinka” is one of those acquisitions that have brought Slovenian architecture together with global trends and aspirations. It is unique, but it is also extremely vulnerable to any attempt to return to tradition and tried-and-tested comfort. A few years after independence, Slovenian architecture was caught by a completely fresh wind, which looked for its models […]
