Sava Center
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| General information | |
| Type | Congress centre |
| Location | New Belgrade, Serbia |
| Coordinates | 44°48′32″N 20°25′52″E / 44.80889°N 20.43111°ECoordinates: 44°48′32″N 20°25′52″E / 44.80889°N 20.43111°E |
| Completed | 1979 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Stojan Maksimović |
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Sava Centar (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава центар) is an international congress, cultural and business centre of various multi-functional activities located in New Belgrade, Serbia. It is the largest audience hall in the country and entire former Yugoslavia and one of the biggest in Europe. It has been host to numerous large scale events and performances.
The construction of the biggest performance and convention centre in what was then Yugoslavia (at present in Republic of Serbia) started in 1976. The centre would be located in the new construction area of the city of Belgrade, New Belgrade. In those years the capital of Belgrade spread and grew across the rivers of the Sava and Danube to offer a modern alternative to this historical city. The completing of the project took three years, until 1979, and was headed by chief designer and team manager Stojan Maksimović. Supporting architecture such as roads and highway conjunctions were also built during this period around the Sava Centar complex.
Works on the first stage of the building had to be rushed due to the scheduled Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, which took place in Sava Centar in 1977. The second phase, a large performance and conference hall, opened the following year on the occasion of the 11th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. The planned stage at the main hall, which had been fancied as revolving, was scrapped and a fixed large stage was placed instead. By 1979, Hotel Beograd InterContinental was added to the complex to host the annual meeting of the World Bank.
On August 17, 2006, the parking lot at Sava Centar was renovated to capacitate 410 cars. As a result of the renovation parking fees were introduced for the first time at Sava Centar but are as of 2016/2017 lifted.
In its jubilee year of 2007, when Sava Centar marked its 30th anniversary, a substantial financing was utilized on the reconstruction of the glass façade. Also, the city authorities funded the reconstruction of broken glass on the sideways-facing façade, acquisition of the stage audio equipment for concert appearances and replacement of the main hall seats.
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