A busy square is dominated by the long curved facade of the Rex Palace, a multi-story modern building with a rooftop sign and ground-floor shops including a fashion department store. An ornate column on a stepped pedestal stands at the center of the square, with tram rails curving past it and crowds of pedestrians in overcoats crossing in every direction. Awnings and shop signs line the older building to the right of the Rex Palace.
About this place
The Tanurdžić palace stands where Zmaj Jovina, Modene and Ilije Ognjanovića streets meet, with its long side running along Modene. The Novi Sad merchant and benefactor Nikola Tanurdžić commissioned it and the architect Đorđe Tabaković won the design competition; it was built between 1933 and 1934 on a reinforced concrete raft a metre thick, laid because the sandy ground would not otherwise carry the weight. Its clean unornamented lines make it the clearest example of Bauhaus influenced rational architecture in the city, and it packed in fourteen ground floor shops, thirty six flats above, a 300 square metre apartment for the family, and the Rex cinema, which counted among the most modern in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, with a Rex hotel added in 1939. The palace was nationalised in 1946 and partly returned to Tanurdžić's heirs in 2012.
On the card
Újvidék Rex-palota
- Date
- 1941–1945
- Coordinates
- 45.25501, 19.84636
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2384 × 1546 px
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