RT Book, Section
SR 00
A1 Čerpes, Ilka
T1 Vision and Reality: Evolution of the Winning Competition Entry for the New Town Hall Complex in Ljubljana
YR 2014
FD 2014
SP 59
OP 65
K1 Architectural heritage
K1 Public and civic architecture
K1 Architectural architecture
K1 Town halls
K1 architectural contests
K1 architectural projects
K1 brownfields
K1 re-use
K1 conversion of sites
K1 Architectural design
K1 Financial aspects
K1 Investments
K1 Funding
K1 Urban planning
K1 town planning
K1 land planning
K1 Legal framework
K1 Administration
K1 Slovenia
AB 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.
A2 Stokin, Marko
A2 Ifko, Sonja
T2 International Legal Standards for Heritage Protection in a Period of Economic Recession and Tools for Safeguarding Protection Standards
ED 1
PB ICOMOS/SI
PP Ljubljana
T3 Monographic publications of ICOMOS Slovenia
SN 978-961-281-627-8
AV Published
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2175/
UL http://www.icomos.si/files/2015/06/monographic-publication-1.pdf