creators_name	Čerpes, Ilka
editors_name	Stokin, Marko
editors_name	Ifko, Sonja
type	book_section
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title	Vision and Reality: Evolution of the Winning Competition Entry for the New Town Hall Complex in Ljubljana
ispublished	pub
subjects	D02
subjects	E09
subjects	E11
subjects	K03
subjects	P05
full_text_status	public
monograph_type	other
keywords	Architectural heritage
keywords	Public and civic architecture
keywords	Architectural architecture
keywords	Town halls
keywords	architectural contests
keywords	architectural projects
keywords	brownfields
keywords	re-use
keywords	conversion of sites
keywords	Architectural design
keywords	Financial aspects
keywords	Investments
keywords	Funding
keywords	Urban planning
keywords	town planning
keywords	land planning
keywords	Legal framework
keywords	Administration
keywords	Slovenia
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 Plečnik 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.
date	2014
series	Monographic publications of ICOMOS Slovenia
number	1
publisher	ICOMOS/SI
place_of_pub	Ljubljana
pagerange	59-65
pages	77
refereed	TRUE
isbn	978-961-281-627-8
book_title	International Legal Standards for Heritage Protection in a Period of Economic Recession and Tools for Safeguarding Protection Standards
official_url	http://www.icomos.si/files/2015/06/monographic-publication-1.pdf
citation	Čerpes, Ilka (2014) Vision and Reality: Evolution of the Winning Competition Entry for the New Town Hall Complex in Ljubljana. In: International Legal Standards for Heritage Protection in a Period of Economic Recession and Tools for Safeguarding Protection Standards. Monographic publications of ICOMOS Slovenia (1). ICOMOS/SI, Ljubljana, p. 59-65. ISBN 978-961-281-627-8 [Chapitre de livres]
document_url	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2175/1/ICOMOS-SI-%20monographic-publication-Cerpes.pdf