are clues how to accomplish Zagreb Mission or destiny:

Zagreb is mere sandbox for CRO strategical probing?
Zagreb factual vision: Zagreb als Blitzableiter

Zagreb present tactic: invest public money in
infrastructure and culture

Vital urban rules vs imported urban schemes

protect peculiarities of the site; natural, cultural,
protect local people, local knowledge, local prospect, lifestyles
make use of general knowledge:
healthy sustainable, resilient cities, CIAM
use open-end design principles and love for details

give personal touch, instigate positive changes
spread particular knowledge and expertness
foster commonsense astuteness
make use of strategic leverage

round the panoptic picture of the city
consider city as a media per se
consider city as a live organism as a part of holon structure

tactical approach:

with method and empathy

forum.hr/ beli zagreb grad
mojzagreb.info/zagreb/hrvatska/urbanizam.-civitas-radionica

common sense approach:

think einfach und big

Zagreb potential quantum leap approach

apply The style or ask for it

Zagrebsternstunden pace to Jugendstil

reconsider City as a media per se

every present scenery had potentials to become Starting point
for playing with symbolic values of architecture before radical intervention

interplay of different forms, materials, symbols, icons and indices

vs. mere juxtaposition

unused "cool the media" potentials
with starting point in mind that Zagreb is a never-ending fairy tale
ask yourself what play people really play after shopping and where

desolated separated parking places of today - empty after working hours

an opportunity for MiddleEarth Shrine

setting scene for consumers arrival and interactions
a Church with Gasthaus: bread and wine laugh for all

Middleearths of yesterday still works:
Gubec linden earthlings are offered viable insight into traditional valeurs
to ponder on how precious are our time, our present interlocuteurs
all that by simply indulging in food, present, scenery, spirituality, humanism

the best is in using comprehensive native language

of hints, cues, clues, as well as portents, icons, symbols

it brings assertivness and assures us that everything will be

JIT for Us too

fuer uns ist doch selbstverstandlich

sir und vrhnje mit kukuruzni Brot

how can an investor respect
nature of the site

sympathy with the site, once it was a vineyard, Belgian ivy is on the way

native developers call - pest on the way

and do not provoke landslides

big projects

or small ones, at the end it is damn expensive

there are more than 700 active landslides in Zagreb

avoid rigid dichotomy between old and new

calm down flaunting architecture - ruptures of urban tissue this collisions are testbeds for future mediation processes

despised socialist arcadia bids repetitive order to contrasting deregulation of family builders

oversized corporative incentives

elaborated triggers of socialist prosperity

irking vanity tempels

rules on health, context, relief, style, color, scale, rhythm,

behold play of the roofs vip detail: color of the roofs

protect area with dominant red roof tiles means protecting historic layers too

crveni krovovi ocrtavaju granice povijesnog centra grada

how to touch the sky and neighboring buildings

respecting the average heights of the urban blocks

ensures visual concordance of a set piece

Zagreb had set rule for horizontal and vertical division of the facades

machine-standards in cozy packaging

straight line is obtained by strictly implemented rules,

vertical divisions of the facade can invigorate general impression that we are not living in the barracks

different landlords imposing different heights
resolved with dash of imagination

or without,

acceptable alternations of the building heights

generally differences of more then two floors suggests future demolitions

conscious use of symbolic values of city skyline

symbols of power and faith photo by Studio Hrg

new controllers of society

Abstandflaechen: in ZG = h/2

strict correlation between
the height of the building and
the width of the public space in front of it

a masterpiece of unexpected refinement

pay tribute to details: customer satisfaction

enriched by La Longue durée

einfach und schoenheit

and Kornati too

all details from: Varazdin, Zagreb and Sibenik

respect local values

In Gajnice Zagreb example of NGO initiative - micro protection in action:
the tree in the middle of a newly planned road, saved by inhabitants only

Biograd na moru: essential principles of macro protection : skyline, scale, style, color, cultural frames
and elaborate use of greenery as hefty separation from MM or PM bluntness