Pictures from Skopje (2009-2013)
April 20, 2013 3 Comments
A colleague recently asked me about the photos I have been posting on facebook of Skopje over the years of the Skopje 2014 project. I thus decided to upload the best photos from a four year period (2009-2013).
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- Philip overlooking the building site
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- Building site
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- Vardar
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- Bridge of art
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- Toshe on the bridge
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- Toshe Proeski on the bridge of artists
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- Bridge of Artists
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- Skopje fashions at the MFA
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- MFA
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- Traditional dress at the MFA
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- Vardar all dug up
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- Foreign policy heroes on MFA
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- Foreign policy heroes on MFA
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- More foreign policy icons
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- Gorbachev (?)
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- Churchill on MFA
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- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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- Contemporary socialist realism
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- Contemporary socialist realism II
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- Contemporary socialist realism III
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- Declaring ASOM
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- Footsoldiers of ASOM
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- Foot of ASOM
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- Kiro Gligorov
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- Other socialist heroes
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- Some inspiriation from Berlin
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- Brandenburg gate in miniature
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- Heroic torch bearer
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- Brandburg gate mini
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- Parliament remade
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- Warrior on hourse
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- Arc de Triomphe
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- Monument to some of the 2001 heroes/victims
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- Arc de Triomphe II
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- Arc de Triomphe III
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- Antique balkonies
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- New antique balkonies
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- Warrior on horse from below
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- Archeology Museum
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- Main square
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- Arc de Triomphe at night
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- Night lighting
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- VMRO at night
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- eternal flame, all new
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- Flame, Brandenburg gate
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- Foutain, music included
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- Warrior aka Aleksandar in full glory
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- Another museum
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- Museum at night
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- Museum at night II
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- Revolution museum and Vardar
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- Revolution museum
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- New Byzantine emporer
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- Getting the monument ready
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- Getting the horse ready
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- Alex brand new
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- Alex brand new II
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- Alex looking small
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- Alex looking bigger
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- Getting the monument ready
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- Mother Teresa house
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- Detail from Mother Teresa’s house
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- Ecclectic style of Mother Teresa’s house
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- More details from Mother Teresa
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- The gate getting ready
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- Archeology museum
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- Vardar all ripped up
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- New old theaters (2010)
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- Lion
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- Lion of Vardar (2010)
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- Lions at the bridge (2010)
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- Some of the first monuments (2009)
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- Some of the first monuments (2009)
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- Let the building begin (2009)
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- Mother Teresa Museum
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- Mother Teresa Museum
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Stunning photos. Aa for the structures and monuments in Skopje – just a wonderful example of making the presence of history a permanent reminder.
This is not really known, but some years ago me and a friend started a page on en.wikipedia titled “WelthaupshadtSkopje”. Clearly the name of the page was intended to be a reference to the WWII Berlin architecture plans. However, none of the content of the page was made up or untruthful. It simply was a page documenting all that at the time was known about the project Skopje2014.
It was marked as hoax for speedy deletion. Later the admin (a guy from Germany) commented that he didn’t believe that the information presented there could be real. Fun stuff.
Fake,kitsh..soulless architecture.