Nekad propulzivni industrijski grad Sisak, smješten uz tri rijeke – Kupu, Savu i Odru – danas uglavnom odiše spleenom neuređenog, perifernog grada čija je industrijska ekonomska baza urušena tijekom tranzicije. Ipak, arhitektonska kultura u Sisku nije zamrla, pa je tako tijekom posljednjih desetak godina provedeno više javnih arhitektonskih natječaja od kojih je do sada dovršen samo Centar za socijalnu skrb. Zgradu su projektirali Miljenko Bernfest i Lovorka Prpić kojima je ovo prva veća realizacija nakon što su svoj projektantski prosede dokazali u nekoliko konceptualno i formalno zanimljivih interijera u Zagrebu.
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The once busy industrial town of Sisak, located on three rivers – the Kupa, Sava and Odra – today mostly exudes the spleen of an unregulated, peripheral town, the industrial and economic base of which collapsed during the transition. However, architectural culture in Sisak did not peter out, and there have been several open architectural competitions in the past ten years or so, out of which only the Social Welfare Centre has been completed to date. The building was designed by Miljenko Bernfest and Lovorka Prpić, whose first major realization this is, having proven their design procedure in several conceptually and formally interesting interiors in Zagreb.
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