ABSTRACT
Positioned on the very verge of the historic core of the city, and destined to become a new centre by the agency of the socialist regime, the Marijin Dvor stands as an urban fragment that has acquired prominence through the fusion of disparate spatial manoeuvres of power in successive ideological eras. From its beginnings as an early modern real estate venture, the precise architectural articulation of this large crossroads started taking shape in the 1930s with the erection of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, continued in the 1970s with the Parliament of the Socialist Republic, and is recently being ‘complemented’ by the addition of a mixed-use mega-structure nanced by a real estate development company based in Saudi Arabia.
