Novi Beograd
Genex Tower, also known as the Western City Gate, at the entrance to New Belgrade and the city itself. Height: 154 metres, for many years the tallest building in the capital. ©Photo: Blaž Kosovel
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Modernist Hotel Jugoslavija, one of the most iconic hotels in Belgrade, demolished in 2025. ©Photo: Blaž Kosovel
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Genex Tower (ex company General Export) ©Photo: Blaž Kosovel
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Novi Beograd was planned as early as 1943 as the new capital of post-war communist Yugoslavia, once a swampy no-man's land between Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire. All the important buildings of the new state were to stand there. But as early as 1948, construction stopped because of a dispute between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. First, a student housing estate is built on the western edge of the new city in 1952, followed by the completion of the city's most striking building to this day, the Genex Tower (first photo), in 1980. Today, the city has more than 200,000 inhabitants and one of the highest property values in Serbia.
Avtor: Blaž Kosovel
