Uploaded on 2014-10-28 by KaterinaHristovska

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14145265848708328.jpg The project "Skopje 2014" officially started four years ago, and has proceeded at breath-taking speed. The banks of the Vardar River, which runs through the city center, now boast new museums, government buildings and a reconstructed National Theater. All of them have been built in a style its proponents label either neoclassical or baroque. Drawing inspiration from the architectural styles of Classical Antiquity, the project envisages the construction of almost 20 buildings, including, museums, theaters, concert halls, hotels and administrative offices. Many architects are unhappy with the aesthetics of the project and would have preferred a more contemporary approach. They have complained that this is a crime against public space, culture, urbanism and art - against the city and the citizen. In April last year, the government said it had spent 200 million euros on the work - the original estimate was 80 million euros and critics have suggested the true cost could be anything up to a billion euros. This is a most massive project in the modern history for such a small and developing country. The total estimated cost of the project is 1 billion euros and this includes contracting architects, urban design managers, sculptors, construction workers, construction materials, engineers, interior designers and many many more. Some of the above mentioned were provided from Macedonia, but for the most of the mega sculptures were created in Italy and other European countries. It's a mega project in the history my country and my citizens, but in the same time it contains components of a globalized economy in every aspect of the project. Starting from the whole supply-chain process from providing construction materials ... up to the finalized products (buildings) Skopje 2014 has been the newest and most remarkable instance for true globalized economy. On the other hand, government statistics suggest that overseas tourist arrivals tripled over the decade from 2002 to 2012. The picture above represent the newly build Museum of Archaeology of Macedonia and is among the more monumental buildings of the project, with its Greek Revival architecture.