It's not just a "building"...

If we consider that the adaptation of the hall of the Technical Faculty building in Podgorica cost a whole million euros - how much will Božović pour, God forbid, into the adaptation of the entire architectural building of the Technical Faculty in Podgorica - which, truth be told, is in a very deplorable state - it is difficult is to assess...

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From the opening of the adapted hall of the Technical Faculty building in Podgorica, Photo: ucg.ac.me
From the opening of the adapted hall of the Technical Faculty building in Podgorica, Photo: ucg.ac.me
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

Why don’t you do right?/ Like some other men do/ Get out of here and get me some money, too

Kansas Joe McCoy, “Why Don’t You Do Right?” (“Weed Smoker’s Dream”), Decca, 1936

"The hall of the technical faculties is not just an architectural building," exclaims the gentleman from here Bozovic, rector of the University of Montenegro, "he is a symbol of university tradition and development".

And exactly what I took was to correct and supplement Duško Kovačević - Duku Hor(K)hamjera - the progenitor of the unstoppable Boris Raonic - and the former and current (and very likely future) director of RTCG - Public Media Service - and regarding some insufficiently precise and particularly dubious statements made by comrade Hor(K)hajmer in the text "Is Podgorica a nice city?" (rtcg.me, 2. August 2024.) - and which fall within the domain of my (considerable) expertise - when I was informed by those who strictly take care that everything that needs to be reported is immediately reported to whom it needs to be reported - that the mentioned Božović, Mr. Rector, had poured in the entire 1.000.000 euros (in words: one million euros) in the adaptation of the aforementioned hall...

I know the cheese is gone since it was - but I was still deeply dismayed, to say the least, when I checked the tip and it turned out to be correct...

If we consider that the adaptation of the hall of the Technical Faculty building in Podgorica cost a whole million euros - how much will Božović pour, God forbid, into the adaptation of the entire architectural building of the Technical Faculty in Podgorica - which, truth be told, is in a very deplorable state - it is difficult is to assess...

A billion? Or two, maybe even three billion...

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I dug and that the so-called The state institution of higher education - or UCG - has 35.8 million euros at its disposal this year - and that this amount - which, to avoid confusion, was determined (as the old DPS members would say) from the state coffers - is significantly smaller, if to trust the ladies and gentlemen of UCG, from the real needs of their institution.

And if we also know that this year 33.6 million euros will go to the salaries of permanent employees at UCG and for the fees of external associates - and that 1.2 million will go to electricity and fuel for heating 24 organizational units of UCG - which is a total of 34.8 million euros - then we could not say that the amount of 42.6 million euros - how much the ladies and gentlemen from UCG are demanding for the next year - is immodest - that is, excessive...

And he also says that the team from UCG, thanks to the projects - which probably refers to the income from projects behind which UCG stands as an institution - managed to "finance the obligations and a good part of the started projects and programs" - but he does not say whether the adaptation of the hall of the building is included Technical faculties in Podgorica in those financed projects and programs - or again, in the role of financier, this unfortunate country of ours appears...

It's not cheese anymore since it was, I tell you...

And there is Europe now (or never) 2...

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Back in 2021, for the General Krivokapića - the UCG budget was, if I'm not mistaken, only about twenty million - which did not prevent the then line-up at the head of the UCG to celebrate the same happy year 2021 at the end of April (before the appointment of Mr. Božović as rector of the UCG - which will happen a few months later) went public with the story of the reconstruction, upgrading and modernization of the entire technical faculty building in Podgorica - and not just the hall - aside from the fact that there was also a conceptual solution of the planned intervention - complete with a decision on consent to that conceptual solution signed by the head of state architect (Sir Zile, if I'm not mistaken) - and which is no longer available at the address gov.me - nor am I in possession of information about the funds that were committed (if anything was committed) for that purpose at that time...

The mentioned conceptual solution, it should be emphasized, did not include the famous Lamela "C" of the Technical Faculties complex - the so-called The lamella of the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the UCG - or Svetlana's lamella, if you prefer it that way - but only lamellas "A" and "B" - gross developed building area of ​​29.200 square meters, or 31.500 square meters, if we also calculate certain additions - which I I didn't like it at all - and against which I publicly (the only one) raised my voice.

What is the scope of the current intervention in the hall of the Faculty of Engineering building - how many square meters are we talking about this time - they do not say at the address ucg.ac.me...

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So, on October 1, last Tuesday, Rector Božović had the honor of opening the "adapted hall of the technical faculties" - with the remark that we can hardly conclude anything about the adaptation itself based on those few photos, which, along with some slightly incoherent text, appeared on the website of the University of Montenegro (Ceremony opened adapted hall of technical faculties - contemporary architecture for the needs of modern education - ucg.ac.me - October 1, 2024) - so I will still take on the obligation to visit the "adapted hall" - so if I judge that this adaptation is worth mentioning - and I would bet that it is not worth mentioning - the analysis will not be missing (in one of the following issues).

From the opening of the adapted hall of the Technical Faculty building
From the opening of the adapted hall of the Technical Faculty buildingphoto: Ucg.ac.me

Whether it is appropriate to declare the hall of the Faculty of Engineering building an "architectural building" - and at the same time a "symbol of university tradition and development" - you tell me - and I, for my part, will remind you that it is the foundation stone for the construction of the building of the Technical Faculty faculty in Podgorica (Titograd) passed on April 29, 1975 - on the anniversary of the Constituent Assembly of the University in Titograd (which was renamed the "Veljko Vlahović" University in the same year in 1975) - and that this building, behind which they stand architects Milan Popovic (1934 - 1985) and Pavle Popović (1938). in the story about the adapted hall of the building at ucg.ac.me.

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The professor addressed the handful gathered at the opening of the "adapted hall of the technical faculties" with words of wisdom Radulović - Lepi Veliša - "one of the authors of the adaptation", in front of the other authors of the adaptation (all of them are from AF PG, including the indispensable lady dean) - but about Veliša's wisdom after I verify Veliša's intervention inside the facility of the Technical Faculties in Podgorica...

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