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Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc
The Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc was open to the public in 1885 under the title Teatro Comunale. The authors of the structure were the architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, the heads of the Viennese Bureau Fellner and Helmer, who made more than 48 theatres throughout the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Before the today's building of the Theatre, the cultural life in Rijeka since 1805 took place in the building of the Adamić's theatre, located at the place of today's Palace Mode ...
Croatian Cultural Centre on Sušak
The Croatian Cultural Centre on Sušak was built from 1936 until 1947 according to the project by Josip Pičman. Owing to the author's premature death, the project was readjusted by Alfred Albini. The building was constructed because the city of Sušak needed a place to hold cultural and social manifestations, but also because of the lack of accommodation capacities. The considerations about such an edifice can be followed since 1907, but the tender and the beginning of construction ...
The Barracks of the Baron Jelačić (Caserma Comunale)
The barracks by the Baron Jelačić were built in 1858 according to the project by Adam Olf, an architect who worked in Rijeka at the time. The design was made in 1856 for the City of Rijeka. For building design, Olf chose the so-called gotico-quadrato style, which was used at the time used in designing buildings of that kind in Vienna and Trieste. The building was devised as a three-storey building, rectangular in layout, with two prominent square central towers and two square corner towers rotat ...
Main Post Office Palace
The building of the Croatian Post Office, the so called Main Post Office, was built in 1887 as an administrative-residential-business edifice of the Royal Hungarian Financial Administration. It was commissioned by the Royal Governorate, but the author of the project is unknown. The construction works were performed by the company Burger & Matković from Rijeka. According to the designs from 1887, the elite first floor contained the Royal Hungarian Financial Administration and a large t ...