A three-view composite captioned Kozigazgatasi palota (the Administrative Palace, its ribbed tower shown at wide angle), Munkas Otthon (the Workers' Home, a smaller modernist block) and Rex-palota (the Rex Palace, the same curved corner building named Hotel Rex elsewhere, shown here beside the church spire). All three captions are Hungarian only, consistent with the wartime Horthy-era administration of the city.
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 Közigazgatási palota. Munkás Otthon. Rex-palota
- Date
- by July 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25501, 19.84636
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2355 × 1517 px
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