Post Office building in Savska Street in Belgrade to become hotel – Authentic facade a requirement for the investor

The Post of Serbia no longer needs the building in Savska Street, which was raised between the two world wars. The state, which owns the building, intends to sell it. The intention to reconstruct the once opulent facade remains, Politika writes, and as the deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesic, announced, the building might house a hotel in the future. The building was designed by Momir Korunovic.

– Our requirement will be for the building to be reconstructed so as to get an authentic facade. The building will have its purpose changed and be able to house a hotel – Vesic says.

As Politika writes, the city will insist that the future owner bring back the authentic exterior to the building, the kind that it had up till the Second World War. In other words, it will not issue a permit if the future owner does not return the old facade.

The building was raised in the 1920s, in an authentic Serbian-Byzantine style, and is considered Korunovic's best work by some experts. The damaged building was reconstructed after the war by a Russian emigrant, architect Pavel Krat, as it remains to this day.

Let us remind that, in late 2018, the documentation for the urban planning and architectural contest for the area of the Sava Square and the square on the corner of Karadjordjeva and Travnicka streets envisaged the possibility of the Post Office building in Savska Street being brought back to its original state and turned into a hotel or some other type of a commercial facility.

Grad Beograd

JP Pošta Srbije Beograd

Post of Serbia Savska Street

Goran Vesić

reconstruction of facade of Post Office building in Savska Street

Momir Korunović

Serbian Byzantine style

Pavle Krat

Pavel Krat