Republic Square, photo: Janez Kališnik, MAO archive. Image Courtesy of NEVIDNE HIŠE under fair use
architects: Edvard RavnikarLocation: Ljubljana, SloveniaProject Year: 1960Photographs: Courtesy of NEVIDNE HIŠE under fair usePhotographs: via Shutterstock
Republic Square in Ljubljana holds immense historical and symbolic significance for Slovenia. It is located in the historic center of the city and features a blend of buildings with different designs, scales, and dimensions, together with interconnected open spaces, passages, and underpasses. These elements form a multifunctional complex whose construction lasted more than 20 years and underwent several volumetric and programmatic reconfigurations. Visible from a distance and standing out above the Ursuline Church’s bell tower, two prominent office towers rise as part of this work designed by Edvard Ravnikar, the most prominent Slovenian architect of the second half of the 20th century.
