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Belgrade Waterfront (Serbian: Београд на води / Beograd na vodi, lit. ' Belgrade on the Water '), is an urban renewal development project headed by the Government of Serbia aimed at changing Belgrade's cityscape and economy by gentrifying the Sava amphitheater, between the Belgrade Fair and Branko's bridge, including the Savamala neihgbourhood.
Belgrade Tower (Serbian: Кула Београд, romanized: Kula Beograd), officially known as Kula Belgrade, is a 42-floor, 168-meter (551 ft) tall skyscraper as part of the Belgrade Waterfront project in Belgrade, Serbia.
Belgrade (/ b ɛ l ˈ ɡ r eɪ d / bel-GRAYD, / ˈ b ɛ l ɡ r eɪ d / BEL-grayd; [a] Serbian: Београд / Beograd, lit. 'White City', pronounced ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. [10]
The Sajam is located on the Sava's right bank, at the edge of the western foothills of Topčidersko Brdo and the neighborhood of Senjak.The Topčiderka river flows into the Sava, at the Bay of Čukarica, just south of the fair complex, while Novi Beograd and the peninsula of Mala Ciganlija are just across the Sava, which is here at its the narrowest (200 m (660 ft)).
In 2015, an agreement was reached with Eagle Hills (a UAE company) on the Belgrade Waterfront (Beograd na vodi) deal, for the construction of a new part of the city on currently undeveloped wasteland by the riverside. This project, officially started in 2015 and is one of the largest urban development projects in Europe, will cost at least 3.5 ...
The neighborhood is known for its two rows of over one hundred residential buildings, especially blocks 45 and 70 with original setup of two sets of 21 (totalling 42) identical four and two-story buildings close to the river, with large playgrounds in between, and two sets of over 40 (totalling 80) similar red brick skyscrapers close to the Jurija Gagarina street.
Citizens of Belgrade have gathered around a civic initiative "Do not let Belgrade d(r)own", whose trademark has become a big yellow duck. The initiative have organised a number of actions and protests to criticise the Belgrade waterfront urban project which, according to them, is an extremely harmful project. [20]
Like all of Novi Beograd, Ušće is flat, and without buildings to hide that fact like in the rest of the municipality, that is quite obvious here. With only three buildings and several smaller edifices , Ušće is the least urbanized section of Novi Beograd but some residential blocks are administratively attached to the local community of the ...