Photos by Ivan Dorotić
The public competition for regulation of the center of Crikvenica was announced in 2011. and the first phase of the project is now completed. After the works on shore line expansion 20 m towards the sea finished in 2012. first phase project, Stijepan Radić Square was completed in 2013. With finalization of the main city square Crikvenica finally got the first representative public space. Next phases involve regulation of rest of the city center including the Park of the fallen for homeland and the construction of City pavilion along with another square.
Concept of the square derives from The promenade and its main element, the tree line, one of the main traditions of city Crikvenica, that used to stop at the Stjepan Radić Square. The goal was to patch that crack and, as a result, to reintegrate south-east part of Crikvenica as a cohesive part of the city. That way Crikvenica becomes a central point of the long stretch of seaside promenades between small costal towns Dramalj and Selce and its public contents along the shoreline.