Kockica
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Completed: 1968
Architect: Ivan Vitić
Genre: Brutalist, Socialist architecture, former Yugoslavia
Translating as “Small Cube”, Kockica was originally built to accommodate the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia. Situated on the embankment of the Sava River and looking across to Novi Zagreb, construction on the site started in 1963 but was delayed when the river flooded a year later. It was eventually completed in 1968 and acquired its nickname from locals not long thereafter. Today, the ten-storey structure is jointly occupied by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure and the Croatian Ministry of Tourism and is listed as a cultural heritage site.
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dear friends,
We are contacting you as partners of a European Project dedicated to research on fair-faced concrete buildings and the promotion of their heritage values. This project, called INNOVA Concrete, is part of the Horizon 2020 programme from the EU.
Our task in the project, as a non-profit organization dedicated to Heritage Conservation, is to document a selection of buildings of the XXth Century.
In that regard, we have come across your outstanding pictures on the web from the Cube Building in Zagreb.
In order to bring awareness of the importance of this building, which is one of the 100 buildings shortlisted for this project across Europe, we would really appreciate your contribution by agreeing to release the image rights of your pictures for dissemination purposes.
The pictures would be included in the public data base of the project and might be used in the project publications. They would be given appropriate credit.
In case you agreed to participate in this project and free the rights, we would send you a copyright document for you to sign.
If you wish to know more about our Project, please visit the following website:
http://www.innovaconcrete.eu/
Thank you for your time and collaboration,
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico Team
Thanks for your email – I replied to that, so hope you received it.