Image of a building Srdjan noticed on the drive from Podgorica to Sarajevo; we were still in Montenegro at this point.

I recognized it from one of the architecture student group presentations the night before, outside the Karver bookstore.

It is an enormous structure, evidently never completed and abandoned. If you look at the broken windows closely, you can see reflections of the apartment buildings directly across the street.

If anyone knows anything more about this building (why and when it was built, the name of the town it is located in, etc.) it would be great if you could post it below.

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
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www.schoolofmissingstudies.net / shared knowledge

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School of Missing Studies - SMS / http://www.schoolofmissingstudies.net/
Is an experimental and fluid collective scouting for knowledge about cities that are marked or are undergoing abrupt transitions. Cities are in constant dispersion and growth from social, migratory and immaterial factors; they are places where reality reflects uncertainties. Research produced by SMS is generated from the speculation that crisis can only grow. A proportional amount of knowledge acts as a balance to this process. Education has fallen behind other forces like politics and economy that more forcefully generate our perception of culture. SMS approaches this crisis not as something negative, but as a situation from which to extract opportunities. Since 2003 - when SMS was initiated – projects and initiatives have been presented at the Kunstverein Munich, Van Alen Institute New York, SKC Belgrade, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Performers Guest House 2005, Trans:IT Olivetti Foundation Venice Biennial 2005, Whitney Museum IPO Lecture Series, Conference Free-Cooperation Department of Media Studies Buffalo NY and published in books: [No]Where Europe [Olivetti Foundation, Venice 2005], 3D Zurnal [Platforma 9.81, Zagreb 2003], Metropolis Magazine [New York 2005] Urban Ecology [MAP Publishers, 2005] and Did Someone Say Participate [Revolver&MIT Press, upcoming 2005]. SMS are: Liesbeth Bik, Katherine Carl, Ana Dzokic, Ivan Kucina, Marc Neelen, Milica Topalovic, Stevan Vukovic, Jos Van Der Pol and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. It is in the nature of SMS to collaborate and share networks across cultural spectrum of cities involved in research.