Vjesnik Building

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Completed: 1972

Architect: Antun Ulrich

Genre: Modernist, Socialist architecture, former Yugoslavia

Vjesnik was a Croatian state-own newspaper that began life as an illegal publication for the Communist Party of Croatia/Yugoslav Partisans during World War II when the country was under the control of the fascist Ustasha. Post-war Vjesnik maintained its standing as a newspaper of repute and was widely read throughout Yugoslavia. But, not long after Croatia gained its independence in the early 1990s, the paper came under the control of Franjo Tuđman’s Croatian Democratic Union Party, the country’s ruling power from 1990 until 2000, and it soon acquired a reputation as a pro-government publication. Hence, Vjesnik’s circulation steadily dwindled and this coupled with financial difficulties resulted in the paper ceasing to operate in the first half of 2012.