This article is part of our weekly series “Plattenbau stories”, introducing the topic of plattenbau districts in Europe and the world. ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2016 will be held in Trakiya, a plattenbau districts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from September 30th until October 9th. The main focus of the festival is the topic of “citizen participation in the creation of the urban environment”.

An article from Arch Daily, for the full version click here.In the autumn of 2014, Piotr Bednarski, a Warsaw-based photographer, visited the municipality of Novi Beograd (New Belgrade).

The neighbourhood was built in 1948 and became one of Belgrade’s 17 municipalities.Piotr quickly fell in love with the unchanged and raw modernist architecture of this place, mainly because of their contrast with what he experienced as kitschy and colourful blocks of Warsaw. That is the main reason why he kept returning to Novi Beograd multiple times. His goal was to photograph the cityscape from street to roof, even catching glimpses of the view outside the apartments of the panelki.