Photo: bureaucube.comIn February of this year, with the restoration of the facade, the reconstruction of Hotel Bristol began, one of the symbols of the capital from the beginning of the 20th century when Savamala was the center of fashionable life in Belgrade, announced the company Belgrade Waterfront.
"This masterpiece of the famous Serbian architect Nikola Nestorović is returning to the map of the most fashionable places in Belgrade and is about to shine with a brilliance that it has not exuded for decades. 16 top artists were engaged in the restoration of the facade of the iconic Belgrade hotel, which today is located within Belgrade on the water, as well as three of the remaining five liquor cutters in Serbia," the announcement stated.
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It is added that the work on the reconstruction of Bristol is being carried out by the construction company KOTO doo.
According to Blagoj Mićković, director of ALP engineering, which is a subcontractor, the main task of the restorer is to preserve the original facade architecture and, to the extent possible, return it to its original state.
"Bristol's restoration began with the cleaning of the facade, and then experts determined the condition of what was found on it." The parts that failed or cracked were replaced with new ones, and those that only eroded, but are in good condition - were restored," says Mićković and points out that the works are slowly coming to an end.
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The restoration is being carried out in cooperation with the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade.
In addition to sculptors and painters, cooperation on the renovation of the facade was also established with Miroljub Stamenković, a former professor at the department of applied sculpture at the Faculty of Applied Arts and one of our greatest experts in the field of applied sculpture, who is an expert consultant on the creation of new and restoration of existing ornamental facade plastic and a guarantee that Bristol will once again become a recognizable symbol of Belgrade, the letter states.
The main goal, it is stated, is to preserve the authenticity of the hotel, considering that it is a unique building of historical and cultural importance for Serbia. Preserved elements of ornamental facade plastic on "Bristol" are used as molds for making new ones, which are then mounted on the facade. These works are performed by specialized experts in the field of sculpture and painting - licorice.
"The good news is that, despite the many destructions that Belgrade was exposed to in the past, the facade has been largely preserved. At the top of the building, just below the dome, there is a facade cornice that has protected the parts of the facade below it from rain and corrosion all these decades, which speaks volumes for the architectural ingenuity of Nikola Nestorović. "Bristol, by the way, has five copper domes that are also in pretty good condition, but they need cleaning and restoration," Mićković explains.
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THE WITNESS OF INTERESTING TIMES
After the joint work of architects Nikola Nestorović and Andre Stevanović created one of the most impressive buildings of that time in Belgrade, the aforementioned Belgrade Cooperative, in 1907, the idea of building a hotel was born, in order to fully utilize the huge potential of the area on the banks of the Sava. The Belgrade cooperative entrusted the work to a proven expert, Nikola Nestorović.
The construction of the hotel began in 1910 and was completely completed in 1912, and due to its exceptional beauty and importance for the urban development of Belgrade, Bristol today represents an immovable cultural asset as a cultural monument and has been under the protection of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade since 1987. years.
During its more than a century of existence, the famous hotel has been visited by numerous famous and influential personalities. Among the most important guests are the members of the famous Rockefeller family - John Rockefeller Jr., who stayed in Bristol in the 1920s, and then his son David in the late 1970s.
Lifetime President of the SFRY Josip Broz Tito and chess grandmaster Gari Kasparov had the opportunity to stay in Bristol, and it is also known that Bristol was one of the favorite places of the great Momo Kapor, writes ekapija.com.
Source: ekapija.com
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