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Western part of Zagreb is delineated by the Street of the Republic of Austria on the east side, Ilica Street in the north, the railway line in the south and the Črnomerec stream in the west. It was enclosed into a masterplan for the first time in the Regulatory Plan from 1887 and envisaged as the extension of the Lower Town to the west. In the first Regulatory Plan of Zagreb from 1865, only the square in front of the railway station was located there, while the rest was not encompassed. Since the opening of the first railway station in 1862, industrial plants have been randomly built into the western part of the city. In 1878 the City Waterworks were put into operation and at that occasion the first Waterworks Road (Vodovodna cesta) was staked out, connecting Ilica, the historical roadway in the north (since the 15th century), with the City Waterworks. In Milan Lenuci’s Regulatory Plan from 1907 the western part of the city retained its layout. The only urban planning since the end of the 19th century until the First World War in the western part of Zagreb was implemented with the aim of connecting six army barrack complexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the period between the two world wars, Zagreb did not have a general regulatory basis according to which it would develop. Partial regulatory bases are created for individual areas. The western part of the city, which is bounded by the Republic of Austria Street in the east, Ilica in the north, the railway line in the south and the Črnomerca stream in the west, and which was included in the Regulatory basis from 1887 as an extension of the Lower Town, is being built by interpolating the blocks according to several regulatory bases created for individual regions. Industrial complexes, which at that time had priority over military ones, did not leave a significant urban element in the urban sense, and exceptions are rare, such as the administration building of the Factory "Hinka Francka sinovi d.d.". The construction in the western part of Zagreb between the two world wars was of a lower design and, in terms of construction, of lower quality than the previous era [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design elements which appear in the architecture of ten anthological buildings from the 1930s in Zagreb by prominent protagonists of modern architecture, besides being modern, also have a classical morphology, which marks the continuity of a traditional heritage. Adolf Loos’s statement of decoration as unadjusted with the Zeitgeist was emphasized in the analyzed buildings by the lack of finances, which made the interior design, in spite of the representative character of the palaces, reduced to a bare minimum. The analysis reveals design elements of interior and furniture design, the architects’ creations for the commissioned buildings. There are no examples of total design in the representative palaces, even though some architects applied this principle in other building typologies. In the interwar period, architects like Stjepan Planić and Juraj Denzler paid special attention to design on the basis of functionalist ideas, while the application of the Gesamtkunstwerk concept can be found in the building Dom obrtnika (Artisans' Building) by architects Aleksandar Freudenreich and Zvonimir Požgaj. Architects designed typographies for building names on the front facades and logotypes. The functionality, simplicity, and purity of lines and forms in their design can be seen on preserved plans, photos, and even in buildings for a small portion of this heritage that is still in use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]