Bruno Juričić (born in 1977) is a

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n architect. He represented Croatia at 2018

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. In 2018, Juričić won a €100 million tender for the Xia Ke complex in

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, becoming the first Croatian in history to win an international tender of this size with his own project.

Biography

Juričić was born in 1977 in Pula,

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. He has a master's degree in urban planning. Juričić graduated from the Iuav University of Venice, and got his

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with excellence from the

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. He represented Croatia at the 2018

, presenting Croatia's “Cloud Pergola / The Architecture of Hospitality”, which at the time was said to be one of the world's largest and most complex 3D-fabricated structures. In 2018 he became the author of a €100 million leisure complex in

. The entire complex covers 200,000 m2, and the hotel complex about 35,000 m2, with a cultural center dedicated to Haining native writer

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. Yong inspired the construction of the complex, which is informed by

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. Xia Ke means " ode to gallantry" in Chinese, and is the title of one of Yang's most famous works, a "much-filmed martial arts epic" that bears some resemblance to Shakespeare's

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. Juričić is the first Croatian architect to win a tender of these proportions with his own project. He currently lives between

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and

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References

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