PROMENADA / Enota
Architects: Enota
Photographs: Miran Kambič, Branko & Nik Navršnik
The Velenje "Promenada" is an important
help it reclaim its original character of a
transformation never took place and the
city space and a vital city thoroughfare.
town-in-a-park. A successful renovation,
promenade has retained the character
It is one of the central axes of the centre
informed by the awareness of the
of a road, remaining too wide and rather
of Velenje, a young town designed in
excessive surfaces designated for traffic,
dull due to the lack of content. It has been
the 1950s, based on the Modernist ideal
must bring together two requirements
a kind of hybrid space between the road
of the garden city; as such, it is unique
seemingly at odds with each other: "More
and the surface intended for pedestrians -
in the Slovene space. The renovation of
greenery and more programme."
chiefly a straight path quickly leading the
the Promenada represents the first step
towards the gradual revitalisation of the
city centre. It's tasks are to supply the
city with the missing programmes and to
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Also the existing promenade was created
by closing the erstwhile traffic road
almost thirty years ago. Even though it
was re-paved, a sufficiently thorough
users of the secondary-school complex
and the community health centre to
the inner centre without providing any
animation for those out for a walk.