NOTICE OF AWARD GIVING
In accordance with the terms of the International Open Public Competition for the architectural and urban conceptual design of the memorial for the students killed in Šargovac, published on 11.11.2025. and the decision of the Competition Commission dated 08.01.2026., the Mayor of the City of Banja Luka, on 19.01.2026, made a decision to award the prizes, as follows:
- FIRST PRIZE in the amount of EUR 4,500.00 (the equivalent in BAM) is awarded for the competition proposal under the author’s code „9464PX1“ Author: „Dabarh“ d.o.o. Banja Luka, Design Team: Nikola Dmitrović, B.Sc.Arch, Borjana Malčić Savić, B.Sc.Arch., Slobodan Popadić, Master of Civil Engineering, Srđan Pavlović, B.Sc.Civil Engineering. and Damjan Krivošija, Bachelor of Engineering;
- SECOND PRIZE in the amount of EUR 2,250.00 (the equivalent in BAM) is awarded for the competition proposal under the author’s code „44017TE“ Author: Branimir Orelj, B.Sc. from Banja Luka;
- BUYING in the amounts of 750.00 EUR each (the equivalent in BAM) is awarded: for the competition proposal under the author’s code „25105AS“, Author: “Artisan studio” Sandra Radomirović, s.p. Banjaluka; and for the competition proposal under the author’s code “13579CK” – Design Team: Prof. Miloš Komlenić, B.Sc.Arch., Prof. Ivan Rašković, B.Sc.Arch., Maša Žujović, M.Sc.Arch., Milijana Živković, M.Sc.Arch., Aleksa Jordanovski, B.Sc.Arch. and associates Nikolina Krunić, M.Sc.Arch. and Jovana Stojević, M.Sc.Arch., all from Serbia.
The Competition Commission has decided to award the non-monetary HONORABLE MENTION to the work that, with its idea and quality of development, has achieved artistic reach and representativeness, to the author’s work, under the author code “28288KH” – Author: Dejana Đorđević Krstić, master’s degree in architecture from Serbia.
The competition works will be exhibited in the gallery space of the Milanović House from February 6, 2026 to February 20, 2026, and the grand opening of the exhibition will be held on Friday, February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM.
Submitted Entries
Questions and Answers
Are student papers allowed?
Yes. All legal and natural persons, who meet the requirements defined under this competition regardless of their territorial affiliation, have the right to participate in the competition.
Is it possible to envisage covered and enclosed spaces (facilities) within the memorial park?
Yes. It is possible, but not mandatory.
Is it possible (and necessary) to propose a concept for the form and/or materialization of a public building located on the edge of a memorial park?
Yes. It is possible, but not mandatory.
In addition to adequate access, is it necessary to provide parking for cars and buses of visitors to the memorial park within the plot?
It is desirable to provide a minimum number of parking spaces for visitor’s cars and buses.
Is it necessary to fence off the memorial park area? There is currently a fence. 2. In the area of the future public facility (yellow plot), please clarify the access logic and pedestrian connections to the memorial zone. 3. How many parking spaces should be reserved for the memorial park? 4. What capacity of people should the memorial plateau be designed for? 5. Parking - location and mandatory Should parking be planned within the scope of the memorial park, next to the planned public facility, or is a solution outside the scope preferred? 6. Parking capacity Is there a framework guideline on the required number of parking spaces (for visitors, protocol, staff of the future public facility), or is the designer expected to make his own assessment? 7. Future public facility (yellow plot) Will the public facility have its own parking lot and service access within its construction plot, and is a special traffic regime foreseen for it? 8. How many entrances/exits are preferred for the park area, i.e. the level of openness to the environment?
- The memorial park area does not need to be fenced off.
- The area of the future facility should definitely be spatially logically connected with pedestrian paths, because the facility itself will have a functional and spatial connection with the memorial park, and the same should be landscaped until its realization.
- (And 4.) The number of parking spaces is not precisely defined, and it needs to be planned in accordance with the concept of the offered conceptual design.
- Parking should be planned within the scope of the memorial park. 6. The number of required parking spaces should be estimated by the author.
- The author should not deal with the
necessary parking or traffic regime of the planned public facility. - It is desirable to treat the park as an open space without a limited number of entrances and certainly from multiple directions.
How to treat the plot of the future public facility? Is it necessary to fence the plot of the public facility or connect them (landscape, pedestrian, without a fence) or to slightly separate them, for example with vegetation?
It is desirable to treat the park as an open space without a limited number of entrances and certainly from multiple directions.
How many parking spaces should be provided? And is it possible to place them on a side street that the future public facility faces from the southeast, i.e. within the park area or within the plot of the public facility?
The number of parking spaces should be estimated by the author himself, and the parking area should be planned within the scope and along the planned road that touches the scope of the
memorial park.
How many entrances to the park do you make from school? Is it desirable to put access to the park from the school playground? and access to the memorial park from the public building, or to treat the memorial park as a closed space, with only two entrances and exits?
It is desirable to treat the park as an open space without a limited number of entrances and certainly from multiple directions.
Is there already a ready-made form for author statement, payment statement, team statement?
No, the competition documentation does not include a form for the author’s statement, payment statement, or team statement.
Can the envelope be brought in person to the City Hall?
The AUTHOR envelope can be submitted until the deadline for submission of works, i.e. until December 21, 2025, and directly to the City Administration protocol – Office 11 (Department for Reception Office Affairs of the General Administration Department – “Reception Office“).
30 megabytes for graphic attachments is too little. There are about fifteen individual attachments plus 3D views. The notebook has 20+ pages and 3 posters on top of that. Even with file compression, it is quite difficult to fit everything into 30 megabytes. Is it necessary to submit all graphic attachments from the notebook separately as separate .pdf files?
If you need more than 30MB of folded/compressed folder (digital formats .zip, etc.) to submit your competition proposal, you can submit more than one of such folders, separately with the same author’s code tag and with the added word, for example AB12345_animation, AB12345_part_2, AB12345_part_3 and also each of these additional folders must not be larger than 30MB.
What if we submit the work, i.e. upload it, and realize there is an error, is there a chance that the work can be uploaded again with corrections?
If you uploaded a work with an error and you want to correct it, you can upload a new folder labeled with the same code with the addition of the words e.g. AВ12345_corrected.
In the case of a failed application, can the work be sent again when the error regarding the .ZIP file is corrected, of course by the scheduled deadline?
If you uploaded a work with an error and you want to correct it, you can upload a new folder labeled with the same code with the addition of the words e.g. AВ12345_corrected.
Can it be sent by post on Saturday and the envelope will arrive at the city administration on Monday?
Participants are obliged to submit the envelopes by the submission deadline 21 December 2025, and they can be received by the announcer by the deadline for announcing the results of the competition. So the envelope must be stamped with the date of December 21, 2025.
On page no. 10, COMPETITION PROGRAM, under the subtitle: Guidelines for terrain development and landscape design, it says: ``... it is possible to achieve a synergistic relationship between internal and external space that will symbolize unity and continuity.`` What ``internal`` space is being referred to?
The author is given the opportunity to view the space through levels, going beyond the usual ground floor planning. Thanks to the slope of the terrain, a layered structuring of the space is possible, encompassing both underground and above ground floors.