Belgrade’s idiots :)

Posted by Saša Bodiroža | Filed under Belgrade

Few days ago I needed to get to the Belgrade’s Western gate. I was late, so I took a cab. When I said to the driver to take me there he responded with “To the two idiots?”

So, this will be a short post about three Belgrade’s high-rise buildings… There is a saying that someone is “standing alone like an idiot”. That’s why people call these buildings “idiots” :). All of them have ~30 stories and they’re surrounded with small buildings.

In incremental order :)…

The two idiots, the Genex tower, or Western city gate, which is already mentioned. It is a complex of two buildings, which are connected at the top. It is located next to the E-75 highway, on the western Belgrade entrance. It looks like the vehicle is going to go between the two buildings whe n approaching Belgrade, hence the “gate” part :). A little about it, mostly from the article on Wikipedia.
It was designed by Mihajlo Mitrovi? in 1977 in the brutalist style. It is 115 meters tall, which makes it the second tallest high-rise building. The first is the Uš?e tower. There is a restaurant at the top of the tower, which used to revolve. It would make a full round in about an hour. As far as I know it’s closed right now *sighs*, though there are plans to open it again.
The three idiots, Rudo buildings, or Eastern city gate is located near the E-75 highway, on the eastern Belgrade entrance. It is one of the first Belgrade’s marks that visitors see when approaching the city.
The five idiots is a group of five high-rise residential buildings, located on the Banjica, which is in the southern part of Belgrade. I couldn’t find a picture of them : (… I’ll see to make one and update the post.