Wacky Skopje
Characterised by the ample use of unfinished concrete and a blatant disregard of human-scale landscaping, these molochs originally fitted in the socialist city concept as open urban meeting centres but somehow never turned out as the impressible artists’ impressions drawings. Skopje’s prime example is the 1979 main post office with it’s upturned concrete legs, but from the same architect there’s also the 1973 medical university and the 1969 Nikola Karev high school. Elsewhere, look out for the 1968 Historical Archives building, the 1975 Goce Delcev student dorms by Gorgi Konstantinovski and the 1974 National Bank by Olga Pepesh and Radomir Lalovik. Crowning a hill along the road to old Skupi the 1975 State Hydrometeorological Institute building by Krsto Todorovski is a weird constellation of concrete pillars and slabs.
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