Air Force Headquarters ( sr, Команда ратног ваздухопловства, Komanda ratnog vazduhoplovstva) is the monumental edifice, situated at 12 Aviatic Square in

Zemun Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...

, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The first medical commission for the pilots started its work in the Command Building in 1945, which was actually the precursor of the Air Force Medical Institute. On 15 February 1957, the Air Force Museum was founded in this building.

Description

The Air Force Command Headquarters, designed by the eminent architect

Dragiša Brašovan Dragiša Brašovan ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Брашован; May 25, 1887 – October 6, 1965) was a Serbian modernist architect, one of the leading architects of the early 20th century in Yugoslavia. Works Barcelona * ''Serbian ...

, was constructed in 1935, on the site of the former Military Command in

. It represents one of the most original works of the architect Dragiša Brašovan, and an important work of the Yugoslav modern architecture in the period between the two world wars. According to the total volume, for a long time it was one of the largest buildings in Zemun. It was conceived as an independent block building, while at the same time forming the whole with the Zemun Military Command Building at 5 Glavna Street. It has a ground floor and four floors overlooked by a well-proportioned seven-storey tower whose asymmetrically shaped volume is accentuated by the central dominant. The symmetrical arrangement of the front facade is emphasized by the front side-wings encompassing the ground floor and the first two floors. Its side facade is characterized by the rhythm of the openings and the carefully and unobtrusively placed voluminous statue of Icarus, the work of the sculptor Zlata Markov (Žitište 1908 –

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1986), whose mythological symbolism is associated with the meaning and the purpose of the building. The structure's quality is originality, visual expressiveness, inner dynamics and an affinity for details. The Air Force Command Building has considerable architectural, cultural and historical values. The Air Force Command Building in

represents one of the most successful works of the architect

and one of the most significant buildings of the period of

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constructed within the Old Core of Zemun. During the bombing on 5 April 1999, at 04:18 in the morning, the building was damaged in the

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attack, with two missiles hitting the central segment from the Glavna Street and the tower from the courtyard side. In June 2000, a memorial plaque to the fallen members of the Air Force and Air Defence, during the air strikes in 1999 was set up in front of the right projection of the front facade. The reconstruction of the building was done after the original design in 2000-2001. The design of this edifice was presented in 2015 at the exhibition in

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, where the works of our local architects were displayed, in the style of

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, the architectural movement which marked the existence of

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in the 20th century.Biseri srpske arhitekture pred bečkom publikom, RTS, 21 February 2015.

The Gallery

File:Komanda vazduhoplovstva (5).JPG, The main entrance File:Komanda vazduhoplovstva (10).JPG, Damages from the NATO air strikes File:Komanda vazduhoplovstva (2).JPG, The Air Force Command Building File:Komanda vazduhoplovstva (3).JPG, The view from the Glavna Street File:Komanda vazduhoplovstva (4).JPG, The Statue of Icarus on the Facade

Sources

External links

Зграда Команде ваздухопловства
Споменици културе у Србији, САНУ.

Каталог непокретних културних добара на подручју града Београда.
Зграда команде ваздухопловства
Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда.

Политика, Снежана Прљевић, 30. април 2007.

В. Новости, Зоран Николић, 18. јул 2013. * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150929180606/http://milutinmilankovic.rs/ikar.html Српски и светски научни великан у галерији „Икар“ Удружење Милутин Миланковић - Београд.
Туристички центар Земуна

План Града-Доњи Град Земун

Званични сајт општине Земун

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