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Small Skyscraper
The popularly called Small Skyscraper was built in 1939 according to the project by a young architect Raoul Puhali, who was also the commissioner. Raoul Puhali was born in Pula in 1904, from where he soon moved to Rijeka where he lived and worked after the studies in Vienna. After the Second World War, he lost all his property, which is why he moved to Trieste where he remained for the rest of his life. The Small Skyscraper is one of his first works, while some of his other works include the IN ...
House Whitehead
The house Whitehead was built in 1886 according to the project by Giacomo Zammatti, an Italian architect who worked in Rijeka from 1884. The house was built for a famous English industrial and ship engineer Robert Whitehead. After opening the company Stabilimento Tecnico di Fiume for the production of engines and ships, Whitehead spent the major part of his life in Rijeka. By perfecting the prototype of the devastating firearm according to the idea by the retired officer Ivan Luppis, he made th ...
House Ružić
The house Ružić is one of two high-class houses on Piramida, Sušak, by the author Julije Stanisavljević. It was built in 1888 in historicistic style of early Renaissance. Julije Stanisavljević was a royal county technical reporter, dubbed by Radmila Matejčić as “the architect with a European taste”. He worked in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. One of his works is the Civil Engineering High School (co-author Mato Glavan). The hous ...
House Sirius
The house Sirius was built in 1912 according to the designs by Giovanni Rubinich. It is famous as the seat of the freemasons in Rijeka, which is witnessed by the decoration on the façade selected by Rubinich. Rubinich himself was a member of the loggia. This multiple-storey building is abundant with interesting façade sculpture inspired by the freemason symbolism – the lizard, a winged creature, a whale, a lion, the swastika, hearts, various floral details. The entran ...