The terrains across Bosnia & Herzegovina’s National Parliament tower for decades defied time, patched with no-glamour parking areas, kiosks and dust-clad vacant parcels. It is a terrain that longs to become something, but takes hell-of-a-lot-of-time in doing so. It stood empty awaiting a concert hall to arrive.
Many years after dismantling Sarajevo’s famous tobacco factory, the realisation of the intended development on this site – the large concert hall – never came. From time to time, a spectacular competition is held for the area, like the one from 1999 with starchitects like Zaha Hadid in the jury. (more…)
