The furniture that resides in the building since the 1970’s is stacked, waiting to be removed. Triangles and squares of wood and metal, modular elements of floors and ceilings are resisting as they are being torn out.
The congress building “Sava Centar” embodied a vision of the future for the international, Non-Aligned, socialist Yugoslavia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, this modernist landmark of New Belgrade became neglected by the state and, over decades, gradually deteriorated.
In 2020, it was privatised and its transformation followed.
Like many of the younger construction workers, Nenad is in Sava Centar for the first time, detached from its past and the society it was built in.