ugrimThe palace of youth and sports of Pristina, Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve.
Music: Gjurmët - Te Shtrire Mbi Kanape
Gjurmët was a famous Postpunk-Band from Pristina that existed from 1980 to 1986.
2/5 The building used to be named after Boro and Ramiz. Boro Vukmirović and Ramiz Sadiku were antifascist fighters who organized the resistance against the fascist invasion and occupation of the axis powers in 1941. Both of them got arrested, tortured and executed together on the 10th of April 1943. As Boro was an ethnical serb and Ramiz ethnical albanian their friendship was a symbol for brotherhood and unity in socialist Yugoslavia.
3/5 There used to be a monument in Landovicë, Kosovo in order to commemorate the two partisans. After the Kosovo War in 1999 the monument got destroyed and the Boro and Ramiz Sports Center was renamed to 'Palace of Youth and Sports'. Still today it is decorated with a large picture of Adem Jashari, one of the founders of the UÇK who fought for the independance of Kosovo from Yugoslavia.
4/5 The compelx was completed in 1977 but the desintegration of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War prevented renovations. The condition of the building is bad. In 2000 the building was severely damaged by a fire, since then the large arena and the convention hall are defunct. Although some areas have been restored and the shops, nightclubs and basketball arena – which hosted the Euroleague in 2014 – are operational.
5/5 To quote The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Once future-orientated, this is a building that cannot shake off its history.