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37. Zenica

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We didn’t plan to go to Zenica at all. After all, what on earth is there to see? But through our newly developed interest in brutalism, or socialist modernism, suddenly a couple of ideas had popped up, mostly centered around hotels. Some specialist website mentioned the Hotel Internacional, and the Hotel Dubrovnik, both in Zenica. [...]
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the Igman Hotel

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Well, the absolutely very best of Brutalist Sarajevo architecture, then, for the very last. Outside Sarajevo is another hotel, built for the Olympics. The 162-room Igman Hotel, close to the past ski jumping station, did not survive the war, and has been abandoned since. They don’t come much more Brutalist than this, one hump of [...]
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34. Podgorica

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The various guidebooks and websites identify exactly one landmark in Podgorica, the Millenium Bridge, a 176 m long cable supported bridge over the Moraca River. And indeed, in the late afternoon sunlight this is a nice, if humble sight. But those guidebooks and websites have obviously no eye for the real gems of the city, [...]
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23. Pristina

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Pristina is by no means a beautiful city; like all the towns we passed on our way in Kosovo, construction is here also a dominant feature, and it looks like not much has been finished yet. Nevertheless, there is an old town, sort of, where some of the historical buildings from Ottoman times have been [...]
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16. Brutalist Belgrade

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There is this part of Belgrade that doesn’t get to the tourists guides, or promotional websites. Because it is considered not very pretty. I beg to differ. I love the Brutalist architecture that originated after WW II, in socialist countries that needed to build houses quickly, without too much consideration for people’s choices and preferences. [...]
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