The Challenge- The unobtrusive and elegant modernist language of Beton Hala through the years has stood in a dialogue with the Belgrade fortress and the city skyline. How can a new building get engaged in this dialogue without introducing a new vocabulary or an icon? This has been the challenge of the project and in order to achieve that the project aims to be an extension to Beton Hala and not a new building.

The project- The architecture of the proposed New Waterfront Center is an extension of Beton Hala along a free path in space that starts from the last column of Beton Hala, extends over the tunnel, slithers at the roof level and finally ends by merging on to the Belgrade Fortress plateau. While Beton Hala’s form responds to the train tunnel, our proposed extension to Beton Hala would be a piece of infrastructure at a human level, an infrastructure that entertains a smaller and softer range of urban circulations and connectivity than that of a train tunnel.