Source: eKapija | Tuesday, 16.03.2021.| 09:27
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Belgrade Has a Plan for Miticeva Rupa – Residential and Commercial Facilities on 7,000 m2 with up to Seven Floors

Miticeva Rupa
Miticeva Rupa (Photo: Urbanistički zavod Beograda/PDR, screenshot)
The Secretariat for Urban Planning of the City of Belgrade has put the detailed regulation plan of the popular Miticeva Rupa location in Belgrade up for early public review. This is a city park in the municipality of Vracar, bordered by Kralja Milana, Njegoseva, Kralja Milutina and Beogradska streets.

According to the plan commissioned by the Belgrade Land Development Public Agency, instead of the public green area and two children’s parks, which now take up most of Miticeva Rupa, as well as several residential facilities, mixed city centers will be raised in that location – a combination of commercial with residential features, on an area of 6,964.7 m2. The existing public service facilities will be kept.

Orthophoto image of the location
Orthophoto image of the location (Photo: Urbanistički zavod Beograda/PDR, screenshot)


According to the planning documentation prepared by the Institute of Urban Planning, the features, capacities and the number of floors are defined in line with the first-prize architectural and urban planning design from a 2005 contest, for the area of the Slavija Square and the surrounding blocks, by architects Tamara Petrovic and Milos Komlenic.

According to that design, the ratio between residential and commercial features is 40-60%. The proposed features, in addition to residential facilities, entail cultural facilities of a commercial character (media libraries, reading rooms, multifunctional halls for cultural-educational programs, exhibition galleries, creative industries, cultural-art centers etc.), as well as specialized stores (sales galleries, book stores, specialized stores, music instrument stores etc.) and the accompanying hospitality features (cafes, restaurants…).

The plan is available for public review until March 29.

Miticeva Rupa, view from Njegoseva Street
Miticeva Rupa, view from Njegoseva Street (Photo: Urbanistički zavod Beograda/PDR, screenshot)


The history of Miticeva Rupa

In November 1940, Vlada Mitic, a well-known wholesaler, decided to raise a big department store, the tallest building in Belgrade, 60 meters tall, with 14 floors, modeled after German department stores, in the location of the Rudnicanin coffee shop, on the corner of Kralja Milana and Beogradska streets. The department store was designed as a vertical “commerce city”, which, according to the Vreme daily, would enable the “common working man” to meet all his consumer needs, in the shortest amount of time possible and with minimum physical effort.

The designers of the department stores, Miladin Prljevic and Berlin architect Schaefer, along with builder Djordje Lazarevic, designed a building modeled after the then already built Albanija building in the Terazije location in Belgrade, with an added tower featuring a gallery-lookout on top. The ambitious magazine project, characterized by innovative technological solutions, such as an automated parking platform, escalators for visitors and modern fire protection, was supposed to be realized within two years, but the Second World War put a stop to this plan.

Once the war was over, the communist authorities nationalized the land. Between 1946 and 1980, there were several attempts to start construction projects in the location called Miticeva Rupa (Mitic’s Hole), each one unsuccessful. In the early eighties, the city authorities arranged the location into a park, with a sundial as the main motif, which was dismounted in 1992 in order for the foundation stone for the Dafiment Bank building to be set there, although that project was then abandoned too. Since then, the location remained neglected until being rearranged back into a park in 2003.

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