Kazina Palace
One of the most politically abused buildings in Slovenian history, the Kazina Palace, is keeping its architectural prophecy. Since it was built, Kazina has had all kinds of political masters, from Germans, Austrians, to the Liberal Yugoslavian democratic Party, later on by the Italian Army in 1943, and finally the Slovene parliament in 1054. The neoclassical architecture was initiated by the Kazina department committee members and created by architect master Benedict Müller in 1836 to 1838 for the clubbing purposes of Ljubljana’s elite bourgeois. Kazina has been a place of revealed bourgeois dignity and a politician’s manifesto. The venerable lady has never lost its liveliness, hosting various social and cultural activities and sophisticated clubbing.
The building was seismically reinforced, acoustically stabilized, adjusted, and completely renewed under conservation strategies. The project of reconstruction was collaborative between our team and conservation specialist Marija Režek Kambič from ZVKD RS.
Client University of Ljubljana
Location Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Year 2022
Building type Public
Area 6.900 m2
Photographs Miran Kambič
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