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Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Apartment House Gradaska
Image View:
Detail showing use of various materials
Creator:
Sadar Vuga Architects (Slovene architectural firm, established 1996)
Location:
site: Ljubljana, Ljubljana-Center, Slovenia
Location Note:
Gradaska Ulica 20
GPS:
46.043565 14.503629
Date:
2003-2007 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Slovene
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
apartment house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
reinforced concrete; steel; structured stone panels; glass; reflecting glass
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Measurements:
3,800 m2 (area, total floor area)
Subjects:
architecture; cityscape; contemporary (1960 to present); City planning
Description:
The architects use the reflective glass surface of the facade "as a kind of a Switching Surface between the structure and the living character of the metropolitan vertical lofts, on the one hand, and the almost village-like atmosphere of the area on which the Apartment House Grada?ka is located." The apartment house has 12 units in it. (Source: Sadar Vuga Arhitekti [firm website]; http://www.sadarvuga .com)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-SVA-GAB-A4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Apartment House Gradaska