Bruno Juričić (born in 1977) is a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

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

Haining () is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, China, and under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing. It is in the south side of Yangtze River Delta, and in the north of Zhejiang. It is to the southwest of central Shanghai, and east of Hangzhou, the p ...

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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,

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

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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

Jin Yong Louis Cha Leung-yung (; 10 March 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (), was a Hong Kong wuxia novelist and co-founder of '' Ming Pao.'' Cha authored 15 novels between 1955 and 1972 and became one of the most pop ...

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

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. Xia Ke means "

ode to gallantry ''Ode to Gallantry'' () is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in Hong Kong from 11 June 1966 to 19 April 1967 in the newspaper ''Ming Pao''. The novel shares the same Chinese title as a poem by the Tang dynasty poet ...

" 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

Pula Pula, also known as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria, Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, wi ...

and

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