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Documentary series "Slumbering Concrete" erects its narrative around modern architecture in Croatia and regions of the former Yugoslavia - an area distinguished by large number of vacated and ruinous buildings from 20th century that are

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    Slumbering Concrete Season 1 Episode 1 - Socialism Meets Capitalism
    9.0/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Socialism Meets Capitalism

    S1:E1

    The episode deals with the Haludovo hotel resort on the island of Krk. Today, it is an almost mythical place, shrouded in a thousand stories. We are introduced to its turbulent history, a time when Haludovo was a gambling mecca - a meeting point of world dictators and politicians, American weekend gamblers, Yugoslav celebrities, and ordinary citizens. Today, it is merely a nostalgic reminder of a bygone time when hedonism and egalitarianism briefly intersected. From its glory days to privatization and final decline, the entire story takes place in the short span of 40 years.

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  2. Slumbering Concrete Season 1 Episode 3 - Mysterious Object in the Pine Forest
    9.0/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Mysterious Object in the Pine Forest

    S1:E3

    We explore the possibilities of revitalising a mysterious building of unusual beauty in the small town of Krvavica, near Makarska. The building cannot be found in any urban development plans nor land registers; it was built by the Yugoslav People's Army as a place to treat children suffering from pulmonary diseases. At the initiative of architects, it was granted the permanent status of a protected monument, which was resisted by the local authorities. Today it stands abandoned, dilapidated, and looted, while the State Property Management Office is still at a loss what to do with this priceless building.

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  3. Slumbering Concrete Season 1 Episode 2 - Brief Encounters Along the Adriatic Highway
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    #3 - Brief Encounters Along the Adriatic Highway

    S1:E2

    The episode "Brief Encounters Along the Adriatic Highway" takes us on a road trip along the route that has drastically changed the life on the Croatian coast, and become part of collective memory for many tourists. Along the way, we stop at motels and other overnight rest stops, paying special attention to the architecture of Ivan Vitic. His elegant and modern architecture has been left to decay.

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  4. Slumbering Concrete Season 1 Episode 4 - Megastructures
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    #4 - Megastructures

    S1:E4

    We deal with the phenomenon of mass tourism and mega-structures, huge city-like buildings whose accommodation capacities often surpassed the population count of the historic settlements where they were built. The designs of these hotels teach us about the ideas of modernism, planned development of the Adriatic coast, and the ways of achieving balance between economic growth and the preservation of existing values, between mass tourism and the lives of local residents.

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  5. Slumbering Concrete Season 2 Episode 1 - Zagreb Fair, the City Center That Was Not Meant to Be
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    #5 - Zagreb Fair, the City Center That Was Not Meant to Be

    S2:E1

    The first episode entitled "Zagreb Fair, the City Center That Was Not Meant to Be" explores the Zagreb Fair, an important part of the urban identity of Zagreb and the focal point for presentation of technological advancements and contemporary modes of life, which would only party integrate into the everyday life of the citizens of Zagreb, Croatia and Yugoslavia. The building of the Fair was the first big construction on the south bank of Sava river, a visionary project of creating the big new center for New Zagreb. The vision was never fully realized, and Zagreb Fair, a protected cultural property – with its 560.000 square meters, 40 pavilions, 12 kilometers of asphalt roads and its own water pump station – is barely holding on: not yet an abandoned industrial area but not adequately used either.

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  6. Slumbering Concrete Season 2 Episode 2 - Vehicles of Emancipation
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    #6 - Vehicles of Emancipation

    S2:E2

    The second episode, "Vehicles of Emancipation," covers architecture that became an important instrument of the post-war reconstruction and the cultural centers and workers’ educational centers in former Yugoslavia that were built for the purpose of the socialist emancipation of man. They unified education, culture, entertainment, sports and political life and brought new architecture and lifestyle to their environments. We cover four of these “social condensers” – Cultural Centre in the small village of Konjic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Memorial Center in Kolašin, the House of the Revolution in Nikšić, and Ivan Vitić’s Cultural Center on the island of Vis. Is their continued survival possible or will they remain just as a symbol of great ambitions?

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  7. Slumbering Concrete Season 2 Episode 3 - Split, Where Plan Meets Chaos
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    #7 - Split, Where Plan Meets Chaos

    S2:E3

    The third episode "Split, Where Plan Meets Chaos" visits Split, a fascinating example of urban continuity from antiquity to modernity (from ancient culture to socialist modernism). We are focusing on the unfinished urban phenomenon of Split 3, one of the most advanced socialist modernist settlements in the world. The complex was built under the Slovene team of architects Mušič, Bežan and Starc in the 1970s following the modernist principles of freestanding cities. However, simultaneously to harmoniously proportioned skyscrapers of Split 3, the space is taken by unregulated individual construction sites. Planning and deregulation coexist, exemplary order clashes with chaos – the city and its antithesis. Opposing tendencies intertwine, and with the passing of time one prevails. We read the city as a reflection of society in the fascinating architectural collage of Split.

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  8. Slumbering Concrete Season 2 Episode 4 - A City That Was Too Modern
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    #8 - A City That Was Too Modern

    S2:E4

    After the catastrophic earthquake in 1963, Skopje became a global demonstration city of the future. UN hired international experts to participate in its reconstruction, the central figure being the Japanese avant-garde architect Kenzo Tange who designed the new center using the principles of the metabolism – its first application outside Japan. In its bid to become city of the future, Skopje anticipated some of the concepts that are only being realized today, but the ambitious idea was only partially realized. The bare brutalist architecture of unplastered concrete, at the same time archaic and futuristic, does not compromise, but tries to build a new world – but was it just a megalomaniacal project that was impossible to live in? In the episode, we also touch on the current Macedonian political nomenclature in their endeavor to rewrite history through construction – authentic modernism is replaced by faux Baroque and monumental memorials.

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  9. Slumbering Concrete Season 3 Episode 1 - The Possibility of a Community
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    #9 - The Possibility of a Community

    S3:E1

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  10. Slumbering Concrete Season 3 Episode 2 - Between Iron Curtains
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    #10 - Between Iron Curtains

    S3:E2

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  11. Slumbering Concrete Season 3 Episode 3 - The City of Workers and Architects
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    #11 - The City of Workers and Architects

    S3:E3

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  12. Slumbering Concrete Season 3 Episode 4 - Death to Fascism, Freedom to Others
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    #12 - Death to Fascism, Freedom to Others

    S3:E4

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Best Episodes Summary

"Socialism Meets Capitalism" is the best rated episode of "Slumbering Concrete". It scored 9/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/30/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mysterious Object in the Pine Forest".