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Article: Walking on the grass. (architectural design in Sarajevo)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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We entered Sarajevo from the wrong side - by bus from Belgrade through Pale in Republika Srpska, the Serbian part of Bosnia, and arrived in the Serb neighbourhood of Dobrinja after dark. Taxi drivers had retreated to electrically lit safety some blocks away, and for half an hour we walked along the unlit street which now forms the border between two countries. In the dark, sporadically inhabited housing blocks looked deceptively normal, we could barely make out gaping holes in the walls, total absence of glass in what was left of windows, concrete panels frayed and pock-marked by bullets and shrapnel - the only reminders of war were a handful of anti-vehicle barriers across ...