The Workers' Chamber at its street corner: a modernist block whose stair tower is faced in banded brick, glazed down its middle and topped by a flagpole. A round window sits high on the side wing, which steps down to a lower brick block with a curved gable, and shopfronts under flat canopies run along the boulevard front. Young trees stand beside the unpaved roadway, wires cross overhead, and a man in a hat stands at the foot of the tower. Dragiša Brašovan won the competition for the building, which went up from 1929 and opened on 5 July 1931; it is known today as the Svetozar Marković Workers' Home. The low stepped end belongs to the first design, and Đorđe Tabaković built a taller addition on that side in 1940.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
- Date
- 1931-1940
- Coordinates
- 45.25401, 19.85269
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1873 × 1577 px
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