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Mare Janakova

THE FALCON’S CENTER IN U@ICE

By building of the Falcon’s center, U`ice in the middle of the fourth decade
of the 20th century got architectonical, representative and urban, significant ob-
ject. The polychrome of building sufficiently elevated environment, and carried a
plastic and color wealth into surroundings of the town. With an absence of an aca-
demic inflexibility, with expressive rhythm of convex and flat parts, with transpo-
sition of folkloric elements, Korunovi} gave to this building emphasized romantic
and poetic prospect. The building had characteristic elements of Korunovi}’s fal-
con architecture: contrast of horizontal and vertical masses, dynamics of composi-
tion, rhythmical wealth of facades, live dance of rectangular and spherical holes,
emphasizing of objects assignment trough facades poultice. In his falcon’s opus
Falcon’s center of U`ice appertained as one of the highest places. It is necessary to
emphasize cultural and artistic significant of this object, particularly because, like
to many other Korunovi}’s buildings unpleasant and unjustified destiny happe-
ned, it was demolished in 1974.