Kolizej is dead, long live New Kolizej

Multifunctional building with a concert and opera hall is not to be built prior to 2015.
They have started pulling down Kolizej yesterday; thus it will remain like this for the next three weeks.
It grew on the abandoned gravel pit in 1847 according to the idea of an Austrian architect Josef Benedikt Withalm: it was first intended to be an accommodation for 3 thousand Austro Hungarian soldiers, dances were held there, musical events, celebrations, people used to gather in a pub and a restaurant. Due to numerous events, it became the biggest entertainment building in Ljubljana.
 

Soon it was renovated because of the fire and it became a base for smaller companies and tradesmen. Round 1890 they managed to transform into apartment building and it remained like this until 8 years ago when it became a shelter for drug addicts, homeless, and illegal immigrants.
 

They have started pulling it down in order to build a multifunctional building, a concert-opera hall called Musica. The entire investment is 142, 5 million EUR worth, out of which 60 million is planed for a concert hall within frame of public private partnership.
Even though the predictions were to open the doors of the Hall in the summer of 2012, the deadline was moved – it is not to happen before 2015
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dapted from: Finance, Iva Gruden