Conservation of Mostar Old Town - Aga Khan Award for Architecture
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Conservation of Mostar Old Town

Conservation of Mostar Old Town
 Location: Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Europe)
Architect: Stari Grad Mostar / Dzihad Pasic, Amir Pasic
Client: Community of Mostar
Completed: 1978
Site size: 742'000 m²

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Conservation of Mostar Old Town Project Brief

By the 1960s, the 16th-century historical core of the town of Mostar was physically deteriorated and commercially stagnant. It has since become revitalised and reactivated as a thriving business centre. Stari-Grad, the agency in charge of this restoration project, is a semi-autonomous organisation approved and subsidised by the Ministry for the Protection of Monuments and Nature of the Republic of Herzegovina in Sarajevo. Beginning in 1977, Stari-Grad spent three years documenting the historic centre. Subsequently it has undertaken the restoration of the river embankments, a 16th century Ottoman tower and bridge, a 17th-century clock tower, two mosques, a madrasa, private houses, a tannery and shops that date back to the 18th-and-19th centuries. The jury noted that the rehabilitation of this wide variety of building types has been handled in an exemplary manner. All the restorations fit well into the general atmosphere of the old town and its homogeneous appearance is not disturbed; nothing is overdone or touristic.

  • View of the sixteenth century Stari-Most Bridge, a masterpiece of Ottoman architectural and engineering skill

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  • Stari-Most Bridge spans the Neretva River

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  • View of the left bank with the Koski Mehmed-Pasha's Mosque in the distance

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  • Aerial view, Stari-Most Bridge and Old Town

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  • View of a walkway along the Neretva River with the bridge in the background

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  • Buildings of Kujundziluk, mostly shops and offices, on the left bank of the Neretva River

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  • Shops and offices in Kujundziluk, on the left bank, are built of wood

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  • Stairs on the eastern side of the city, with Ottoman bell tower (b.1636)

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  • Aerial view of the city from the southwest

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  • View of the Old Bridge from the eastern bank of the Neretva River

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  • Isometric section of Karadoz Bey's Mosque

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  • Cross-section of buildings 43 and 44 from the Stari Grad revitalization plan for the historic core

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  • South façade and east façade of buildings 43 and 44 from the Stari Grad revitalization plan for the historic core

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  • Detail showing roof construction with wooden beams topped by slate roof tiles

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  • Street view in the historic core

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  • Tiling a shop roof in the old city

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  • Renovated residential building on the west bank

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  • Vuciacovicia Mosque

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  • Tepa, the main public market in the old city

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  • The Kujundziluk commercial area on the east bank of the Neretva River in the historic core

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  • View of the east bank of the Neretva River in the historic core

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  • View of the Kujundziluk commercial area on the left bank of the Neretva with one of the bridge defense towers in the distance

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  • View of the Old Bridge looking south from the east bank of the river

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  • View of the Old Bridge and western fortifications

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  • View from the south of the Old Bridge and neighboring historic city fabric

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  • Street view in the historic center

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  • Renovated building facing the river on the west bank

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  • View of the Old Bridge looking north with swimmers in the Neretva

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  • View of the Old Bridge looking northwest

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  • View of the Old Bridge and historic core looking north

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