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\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-2\cf1 Any tourist }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex92 guide will advise you to take in the full sweep of Dubrovnik at a glance by }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 
walking along the top of its ancient 14th century walls that stretch for two kilometres between the historic }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex92 centre and the sea below. From that }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 height Dubrovnik looks compact and }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 
homogeneous. The reconstruction of }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex91 recent years has restored it to its prewar unity, in a careful recreation of }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex92 its original architecture. All this of }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 
course excludes the city's development outside this area, listed }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex91 under the UNESCO historic }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 monuments to be protected. The }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 
random sprawl of building across the surrounding hillsides is an eyesore common among other similar }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex91 Dalmatian and Istrian cities. Inside }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 Dubrovnik the visible signs of contemporary intervention are at the 
}{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 moment not constructive, but are either re-constructive or consist of wounds inflicted on the city during }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex91 the notorious attack of 1991}{\fs17\cf17\charscalex91 , }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex91 when it }{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 suffered the most dramatic autumn of its recent history. In those parts of the}{
\par }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 city not damaged badly enough to be fully rebuilt, with the academic zeal }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 that has restored the medieval core to }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 its original though inevitably artificial }{
\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex95 appearance, there are still traces of }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 the war to be seen in the hundreds of textured holes and scratches in the }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 walls left by shrapnel, shells and }{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 bullets. So for the tourist who may }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 still feel slightly uneasy in Dubrovnik, }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 to bump into a convincing work of }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex96 
contemporary architecture comes as a pleasure. This particular project }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-2\cf1\charscalex96 presents itself as a white wall, a }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 sculptural appendix just outside the city ramparts, close to the Austro-}{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 Hungarian building occupied by the harbour authority and which at first sight seems to have acquired a }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex95 second skin. In reality these are the }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 new publ
ic toilets, the final project for }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 which was drafted between 1997 and 2002 by the architect Nenad }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 Fabijanic, as an integral part of the restructuring of the port area. It was }{
\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex95 inaugurated last July. The project }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 frees the previously closed space between the walls and the adjacent }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 building, and restores it to public use }{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 by creating an open-roof corridor }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 between the medieval and the }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 contemporary, illuminated from the }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-2\cf1\charscalex98 ground by flush-mounted spots. }{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex95 The narrow and elongated reinforced concrete structure is clad on the }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex95 inside with Angola black stone. The }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex93 lavatories and doors are in stainless }{
\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex96 steel, in a reinstatement of current technological meanings. The exterior facing is in polished Dalmatian stone, }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 a material associated with local building tradition and better k
nown perhaps as "Istrian white". The external wall, at the end facing the square, is eroded by what looks like }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex96 a giant drop in negative, almost a }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 reference to its specific function but }{
\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-2\cf1\charscalex97 also, perhaps, a flaw in the }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 completeness of the form and a warning signal. Here in Dubrovnik }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex96 after all, by choice or chance, one of }{
\fs17\cf1\charscalex96 the first instances of contemporary }{\fs17\cf1\charscalex94 architecture regained is not }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex97 celebratory but, simply, }{\i\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex97 a }{
\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-1\cf1\charscalex97 public }{\fs17\expnd0\expndtw-2\cf1\charscalex97 convenience. And this is certainly modern.}{
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