@incollection{icomos2175,
          number = {1},
          series = {Monographic publications of ICOMOS Slovenia},
       booktitle = {International Legal Standards for Heritage Protection in a Period of Economic Recession and Tools for Safeguarding Protection Standards},
          editor = {Marko Stokin and Sonja Ifko},
         address = {Ljubljana},
           title = {Vision and Reality: Evolution of the Winning Competition Entry for the New Town Hall Complex in Ljubljana},
       publisher = {ICOMOS/SI},
            year = {2014},
           pages = {59--65},
        keywords = {ARRAY(0x560c4b9782a0)},
             url = {http://www.icomos.si/files/2015/06/monographic-publication-1.pdf},
            isbn = {978-961-281-627-8},
        abstract = {The urban and architectural design competition for a new town hall was executed in 2009 by
the Municipality of Ljubljana. The main question of the competition was if the new complex
of public activities and public buildings could reinforce the urban development of the eastern
edge of the existing city centre where extensive brownfield areas and abandoned industrial
zones had been stopping the urban growth for years.

The intervention site comprises an area of 3 hectares (30.000 square metres) and currently
no active public functions or buildings are situated there. However, all around there
are many important fragments of architectural heritage from different historical eras
(a protected old sugar factory from the first half of the 18th century, a small Baroque
palace from the 18th century, a river barrier on the Ljubljanica from the 20th century
by the famous Slovenian architect Ple{\vc}nik and an excellent example of the 20th century
modernist architecture in the form of a double round parking garage); however all of these structures are shrinking in terms of physical and functional conditions. A huge effort
from the winning architectural team and the competition jury was made to preserve the
heritage by the integration of all existing protected and unprotected historical building
fragments into the building complex of a new municipal town hall in the sense of design and
function. But further development of the project shows that they had underestimated the
obstacles related to high investment costs and legal procedures that are not defined well
enough. Currently, the development of the project has been halted and, in fact, a very small
possibility of realisation exists.

The scope of this paper is to discuss the main reasons for the project failure, which lie in
legal obstacles and unsuccessfully provided public investment strategies, and to propose the
possible follow-up activities for a more proactive safeguarding of the cultural heritage in the
fields of architecture and urban design.},
          author = {{\vC}erpes, Ilka}
}