Palace of Justice, Zagreb

The judiciary building at Ulica grada Vukovara 84 and 86 in Zagreb is an example of post-war modernism and is noticeable from afar thanks to its strict, elongated form. It is of interest to those involved in architecture because it shows how a public building was shaped by clear geometry.

It was built between 1962 and 1970. It has seven floors, a basement and a roof terrace, and is 119.30 metres long and 15 metres wide. It looks like a reclining cuboid. A car park separates it from the busy street, and inside, besides numerous courtrooms, there are offices, an archive and administrative and service rooms. The ground floor is glazed and set back relative to the upper floors, so the massive upper building seems to loom over a long portico. It is supported by columns clad in marble. On the terrace of the top floor there is a small concrete hut.

The Palace of Justice is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5773.

Photo: Flammard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).