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WTC , RIJEKA
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The WTC Rijeka was the city's most ambitious project in of the 1990s. It was seen as an investment that would trigger-off the transformation of the city's outdated industrial sector, and redefine the city as a regional business and technological centre. The building program itself included a hotel, business tower, congress centre and shopping mall -- 80.000 m2 in total. This project is the first proposal for the Pecine site, done together with the architect Vladimir Grubesic. The project is interesting for several reasons. The post-war environment of 1993, when this project was conceived, was hardly favourable for market-oriented development projects. The site was on the edge of the city, in an exclusively residential area. Furthermore, the site had a very narrow shape, positioned between the railway and rear facades of residential buildings. Finally, because of its size, the centre could not be connected with the surrounding streets, since the new traffic would exceed their capacity. These circumstances determined the typology of the building. Because of the topography, neighbourhoods are formed by longitudinal strips that follow the terrain. In this sense, the centre represents a new strip, that is squeezed in-between two existing ones. |
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