06 September 2009

Courthouse // Varna // Bulgaria

This building was projected by Dizarch OOD (a Bulgarian architectural firm - no website found) and is expected to stand ready in the Black Sea city of Varna by the year 2013. It will be built on a 6400 m2 plot and the structural area will be about 41,800 m2 when completed. The price for this structure is expected to be around 130 mil. Bulgarian leva (= 66.4 mil. euro).

This new structure may look like a building from George Orwell's infamous novel Nineteen Eighty Four (1984), but when minding the surrounding structures (communist-age high rise concrete flats), it actually blends in pretty well. On the other hand, the authoritarian touch the building's architecture also clearly states what it's function is - a courthouse - not the most pleasant and welcoming structure to the common citizen (especially not for those who have had problems with the ways of the law). 

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