Bugarash 1893
11-13-2012, 03:29 PM
Skopje 2014: Disneyland or Baroque Kitsch
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This is a Macedonian Disneyland! Remark inadvertently escape the tourists visiting Skopje when it attacks the heart of the city "army" of bronze and marble sculptures of magalomainiac dimensions, clustered around Macedonia Square.
Absolute winner is 14 meters high bronze sculpture of a rider on horseback. Set in the middle of the ten-meter cylindrical pillar fountains, surrounded by eight bronze soldiers and left. Soldiers three meters high, left half a meter less.
The scene reaches its climax tonight with color backlight, which jets of water from the fountain alternately colored in blue, green, red and yellow. No shortage of music background, which give the impression that the sound and color coordinated rhythmic accompaniment. Officially named the sculpture warrior on horseback, unofficially everyone knows that it is Alexander the Great and the Macedonian. Since you own the Greeks, Macedonians do not want to specify the irritate neighbors.
Macedonian market with the dominating sculpture of Alexander, raised in September last year the twentieth anniversary of the Macedonian state, is surrounded by a number of other statues. There are also enthroned on the throne Car Samuil and Justinian I, horseman Gotse Delchev and Dame Gruev and others. There is also a pavilion in love with the middle intended for shooting newlyweds. Across the river Vardar watching the Alexander statue of his father Philip, not far away are the figures of saints Cyril and Methodius and two more on a special pedestal - St. Clement of Ohrid and Naum of.
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Project without known prices
From Alexander the eye can see is the new bright white, Arc de Triomphe, also called Macedonia door. Section sculptures grow in new bridges over the Vardar, near the famous Stone Bridge. Even the river is not no statue. Under the bridge is to jump in the water preparing bronze swimsuit, but it will not be long stood derelict. Nearby, in the middle of the river Vardar, intending to set up an enormous rotating wheel, similar to that in the Vienna Prater. All new statues can not even count, let alone know the name. Along the main street of the pedestrian is at virtually every five steps new representation, for example bronze frajli to chat. Here are a beggar, sitting as a thinker, bronze shoe cleaner and Cheerful young man like that.
New image of Skopje, marked by about 80 statues already placed, but is only part of the story, specifically the project Skopje 2014th Larger and more megalomaniacal part of the new building, mainly at Vardar, built in neo-classical style. And in the 21st century! Are expected to be built twenty new government buildings and museum and Philharmonic. Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Court Agency for Electronic Communications, City Hall and other institutions will be moved to the new premises of the ancient appearance. Piece in the mosaic of creating a new Skopje from June this year red, first floor city buses, similar to those in London. And more interesting: Skopje buses despite misleading appearance were not British but of Chinese origin.
How much does the project Skopje 2014, which has been initiated by the government of Nikola Gruevski, President of the ruling party VMRO, the public is unknown. Neither the government nor the Centre Skopje municipality do not tell. In February 2010, the government for the first time with a video message to the public, what all it intends to address. Then information was scarce and so it is today, therefore, an overall picture of the project, especially the financial part is not clear. The original estimate of 80 million euros worth project, after just over two years since its inception rocketed on speculation of about 500 million euros, in recent times they go up to one billion. Public and democratic debate about the meaning, objectives and costs of the project it was not possible to know in the street interviews.
Answers to basic questions they expected all, both those who are passionate about the project, as those who refuse. The only difference is this, that some of obscurity and suspicions that the project, called the New Deal Macedonia, benefits only a select ruling party continue to be critical. Hear is that it is a misguided venture in a time of economic crisis, which does not bring any added value, and that it serves only to divert attention from the real problems such as high unemployment and poverty.
http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./skopje.jpg
Japanese admire Alexander That the project has a lot of followers, revealing a cursory observation and spontaneous conversations. Many citizens and families with small children to gather in the central square next to the fountain. Meet at Alexander is the new password for romance. They have, inter alia, charmed by the beauty of sculpture and believe that glorious past Macedonians strengthened their consciousness and identity. As the argument also indicate that the earthquake in 1963 destroyed nearly 80 percent of the city, including a number of neoclassical buildings, so it is right that they be replaced with new ones. They point out that it is also the project Skopje 2014 raised international recognition of Macedonia, which is reflected in significantly increased tourist visits Skopje. It is not uncommon that even Japanese people with cameras crowding around Alexander's monument to the Austrians, Italians and Turks do not even talk. Apparently the capital after a visit of foreign tourists has so far outpaced leading Ohrid.
Thus, one consequence of the project division of public opinion, about half of the defenders, the other half, mostly educated, but opponents. Dissent is nothing special, maybe just a little reminiscent of opinionated polarization in 2000, when on a hill above the Water Skopje erected almost 70 meters high Millennium Cross. At that time the inhabitants of Skopje Muslim negodovali why they also do not have as eminent as a Christian symbol.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/file/show/Images/Photo%20Features/Skopje%202014%20Updated/29%20One%20of%20the%20four%20bronze%20lions%20guar ding%20Goce%20Delcev%20Bridge.JPG
Reviewers: This is perverse! However, street or čaršijske story would not remain the only source to create the impression of a controversial project Skopje 2014, I was asked by e-mail Skopje municipality Center as one of the pillars of the project for the official explanation. I have not received a response. However, the invitation for an interview responded Danica Pavlovsk, President of Macedonian architects, which has 2000 members. Opinion represents the public voice of critical professional architects, urban planners and planners.
"Size of the project Skopje 2014, mega, depending on the capabilities of the state. It is a decision in which the public did not participate. Our association believes that the project is too expensive and rushed to the government to follow certain populist objective and that is proving identity through projects such nonsense, "said Danica Pavlovsk. Video of the planned project has instilled horror in the professional association of architects, so they convened an extraordinary general meeting adopted a declaration and initiated a constitutional review. With no action, or by calling the Government to publish a tender for the project, not the government's move.
Danica Pavlovsk: "The government we alleges that sabotiramo project and we only require dialogue. The project is a professional unsustainable, missing his timing, economic, geographic, political, cultural and social context. It is an attack on the existing structures in the city. Stone Bridge, which is a hallmark of the city is destroyed by these interventions. Most tragic, however, is to require architects to build in baroque style. This is a restriction of creative freedom. We all know that baroque does not belong to this space and it is a style of building from the 19th century. "
In its view, it is very noticeable that the statues placed ambiguously, which is not surprising, as the same government agency that prepares tenders for the toilet paper, unable to meet the calls for statues. "So we have a new bridge, called the Art of as many as 28 sculptures. Other new bridge named Oko already ruin it by sanitizing, "comments Pavlovsk. Spicy details more. For example: a new facility for water and sewer would be built at the request of the investor in the form of baroque Rotonde. Pavlovsk: "This is perverse!"
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8319/8066125364_2029b8af1e_b.jpg
Synthesis summarizes the most disturbing aspects of the project, namely that it is a konspirativen project which neither architects do not have the information. Set to be 120 sculptures, but no one knows contain precise numbers because the information is not public. Manage certain investment quality is not good, estimates Pavlovsk. As an example, according to a new building on Macedonia Square, which was built two years ago for the purpose of administration, but it is now empty and the mortgage. The most painful point of the project is the fact that it is a pseudohistorical kitsch. Danica Pavlovsk "Macedonians have our own identity, we do not need fake, pseudo Identity. All of this causes us pain discreetly. I'm sorry that I have witnessed this happening and I'm helpless. "
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Alexander_the_Great_in_Skopje.jpg
This is a Macedonian Disneyland! Remark inadvertently escape the tourists visiting Skopje when it attacks the heart of the city "army" of bronze and marble sculptures of magalomainiac dimensions, clustered around Macedonia Square.
Absolute winner is 14 meters high bronze sculpture of a rider on horseback. Set in the middle of the ten-meter cylindrical pillar fountains, surrounded by eight bronze soldiers and left. Soldiers three meters high, left half a meter less.
The scene reaches its climax tonight with color backlight, which jets of water from the fountain alternately colored in blue, green, red and yellow. No shortage of music background, which give the impression that the sound and color coordinated rhythmic accompaniment. Officially named the sculpture warrior on horseback, unofficially everyone knows that it is Alexander the Great and the Macedonian. Since you own the Greeks, Macedonians do not want to specify the irritate neighbors.
Macedonian market with the dominating sculpture of Alexander, raised in September last year the twentieth anniversary of the Macedonian state, is surrounded by a number of other statues. There are also enthroned on the throne Car Samuil and Justinian I, horseman Gotse Delchev and Dame Gruev and others. There is also a pavilion in love with the middle intended for shooting newlyweds. Across the river Vardar watching the Alexander statue of his father Philip, not far away are the figures of saints Cyril and Methodius and two more on a special pedestal - St. Clement of Ohrid and Naum of.
http://www.worldphoto.org/_memberassets/images/cache/imagemain/28463A31-172A-4532-A5DB-471B53986339.jpg
Project without known prices
From Alexander the eye can see is the new bright white, Arc de Triomphe, also called Macedonia door. Section sculptures grow in new bridges over the Vardar, near the famous Stone Bridge. Even the river is not no statue. Under the bridge is to jump in the water preparing bronze swimsuit, but it will not be long stood derelict. Nearby, in the middle of the river Vardar, intending to set up an enormous rotating wheel, similar to that in the Vienna Prater. All new statues can not even count, let alone know the name. Along the main street of the pedestrian is at virtually every five steps new representation, for example bronze frajli to chat. Here are a beggar, sitting as a thinker, bronze shoe cleaner and Cheerful young man like that.
New image of Skopje, marked by about 80 statues already placed, but is only part of the story, specifically the project Skopje 2014th Larger and more megalomaniacal part of the new building, mainly at Vardar, built in neo-classical style. And in the 21st century! Are expected to be built twenty new government buildings and museum and Philharmonic. Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Court Agency for Electronic Communications, City Hall and other institutions will be moved to the new premises of the ancient appearance. Piece in the mosaic of creating a new Skopje from June this year red, first floor city buses, similar to those in London. And more interesting: Skopje buses despite misleading appearance were not British but of Chinese origin.
How much does the project Skopje 2014, which has been initiated by the government of Nikola Gruevski, President of the ruling party VMRO, the public is unknown. Neither the government nor the Centre Skopje municipality do not tell. In February 2010, the government for the first time with a video message to the public, what all it intends to address. Then information was scarce and so it is today, therefore, an overall picture of the project, especially the financial part is not clear. The original estimate of 80 million euros worth project, after just over two years since its inception rocketed on speculation of about 500 million euros, in recent times they go up to one billion. Public and democratic debate about the meaning, objectives and costs of the project it was not possible to know in the street interviews.
Answers to basic questions they expected all, both those who are passionate about the project, as those who refuse. The only difference is this, that some of obscurity and suspicions that the project, called the New Deal Macedonia, benefits only a select ruling party continue to be critical. Hear is that it is a misguided venture in a time of economic crisis, which does not bring any added value, and that it serves only to divert attention from the real problems such as high unemployment and poverty.
http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./skopje.jpg
Japanese admire Alexander That the project has a lot of followers, revealing a cursory observation and spontaneous conversations. Many citizens and families with small children to gather in the central square next to the fountain. Meet at Alexander is the new password for romance. They have, inter alia, charmed by the beauty of sculpture and believe that glorious past Macedonians strengthened their consciousness and identity. As the argument also indicate that the earthquake in 1963 destroyed nearly 80 percent of the city, including a number of neoclassical buildings, so it is right that they be replaced with new ones. They point out that it is also the project Skopje 2014 raised international recognition of Macedonia, which is reflected in significantly increased tourist visits Skopje. It is not uncommon that even Japanese people with cameras crowding around Alexander's monument to the Austrians, Italians and Turks do not even talk. Apparently the capital after a visit of foreign tourists has so far outpaced leading Ohrid.
Thus, one consequence of the project division of public opinion, about half of the defenders, the other half, mostly educated, but opponents. Dissent is nothing special, maybe just a little reminiscent of opinionated polarization in 2000, when on a hill above the Water Skopje erected almost 70 meters high Millennium Cross. At that time the inhabitants of Skopje Muslim negodovali why they also do not have as eminent as a Christian symbol.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/file/show/Images/Photo%20Features/Skopje%202014%20Updated/29%20One%20of%20the%20four%20bronze%20lions%20guar ding%20Goce%20Delcev%20Bridge.JPG
Reviewers: This is perverse! However, street or čaršijske story would not remain the only source to create the impression of a controversial project Skopje 2014, I was asked by e-mail Skopje municipality Center as one of the pillars of the project for the official explanation. I have not received a response. However, the invitation for an interview responded Danica Pavlovsk, President of Macedonian architects, which has 2000 members. Opinion represents the public voice of critical professional architects, urban planners and planners.
"Size of the project Skopje 2014, mega, depending on the capabilities of the state. It is a decision in which the public did not participate. Our association believes that the project is too expensive and rushed to the government to follow certain populist objective and that is proving identity through projects such nonsense, "said Danica Pavlovsk. Video of the planned project has instilled horror in the professional association of architects, so they convened an extraordinary general meeting adopted a declaration and initiated a constitutional review. With no action, or by calling the Government to publish a tender for the project, not the government's move.
Danica Pavlovsk: "The government we alleges that sabotiramo project and we only require dialogue. The project is a professional unsustainable, missing his timing, economic, geographic, political, cultural and social context. It is an attack on the existing structures in the city. Stone Bridge, which is a hallmark of the city is destroyed by these interventions. Most tragic, however, is to require architects to build in baroque style. This is a restriction of creative freedom. We all know that baroque does not belong to this space and it is a style of building from the 19th century. "
In its view, it is very noticeable that the statues placed ambiguously, which is not surprising, as the same government agency that prepares tenders for the toilet paper, unable to meet the calls for statues. "So we have a new bridge, called the Art of as many as 28 sculptures. Other new bridge named Oko already ruin it by sanitizing, "comments Pavlovsk. Spicy details more. For example: a new facility for water and sewer would be built at the request of the investor in the form of baroque Rotonde. Pavlovsk: "This is perverse!"
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8319/8066125364_2029b8af1e_b.jpg
Synthesis summarizes the most disturbing aspects of the project, namely that it is a konspirativen project which neither architects do not have the information. Set to be 120 sculptures, but no one knows contain precise numbers because the information is not public. Manage certain investment quality is not good, estimates Pavlovsk. As an example, according to a new building on Macedonia Square, which was built two years ago for the purpose of administration, but it is now empty and the mortgage. The most painful point of the project is the fact that it is a pseudohistorical kitsch. Danica Pavlovsk "Macedonians have our own identity, we do not need fake, pseudo Identity. All of this causes us pain discreetly. I'm sorry that I have witnessed this happening and I'm helpless. "