The Genex Tower — formally the Western City Gate of Belgrade — is one of the most striking pieces of late Yugoslav architecture and the defining landmark of New Belgrade's skyline. Designed by Mihajlo Mitrović and completed in 1980, the building consists of two unequal residential and hotel towers joined at the top by a revolving restaurant, forming a colossal gateway arch visible from kilometers away.
The structural logic is raw and legible: the connecting bridge between the two towers carries the load and creates the drama. New Belgrade itself is the context — a vast socialist planned city of concrete blocks built on reclaimed marshland after World War II, intended to embody the new Yugoslavia. The Genex Tower was its most monumental gesture: not just a building but a threshold, a statement that you were entering something designed from scratch with maximum ambition.