Prize in Novi Sad

BASIC CITY together with JA are runners-up at the international competition for regeneration of Republic Square in Novi Sad. Our proposal Re-Public Square aimed at a solution that not only delivered a functional piece of architecture, but also high quality multipurpose meaningful public space that completed the public space network and connected the city centre to the Danube River.

Republic Square in Novi Sad is a missing piece in a sequence of connected public spaces that activate the very heart of the city’s centre. This key link between the heart of the city and the Danube river bank is currently covered with the under-performing and unattractive food market.
Our concept was guided by a number of essential questions: How to reinvent the square’s spatial qualities? How can it contribute to the regeneration of Novi Sad as whole? What can it add to it’s identity?

Being aware of the limited resources for the realization of the project, we aimed at a simple solution. Our ambition was to showcase functional and spatially sound harmony between commercial program and public space, possibly turning our approach into a guideline for the future development of Novi Sad.