Cukrarna — Attraction in Upravna Enota Ljubljana

An important historical industrial building named Cukrarna, because originally it was a sugar refining facility. "Cuker" was an old folk word for sugar, derived from German word "zucker". Built in the years 1828-1834, the fire in 1885 destroyed most of the factoring equipment and in the years later the building had multiple owners and served for multiple purposes. Slovenian students learn of it because multiple famous poets - Murn, Kette, Cankar, Župančič - found a refuge here at the end of 19th century and worked together as a basis of Slovenian modernism. Later it was abandoned, suffered a few fires and vandalism. A part of it was torn down because of the construction of Fabiani bridge. In 2018 the long planned reconstruction work...

I love it what they've done with the place. Kept the structure of an original building and construction, made it super elegant and clean looking outside. The insides are a great play with keeping the parts of the older look and modern industrial feel. The main exhibition area is supposed to represent the separate reality. The cube like construction seems it is floating inside the main building, 4 levels of different shaped floors makes it a unique place for exhibitions and allows artist to express themselves as they like. Curious to see what is...

Very interesting building, refurbished from an abandoned sugar refinery. I didn't like the exhibitions that were curated for May, but would like to return and see the next ones. Would like to see, for instance, a dialogue with the triple height ceiling, which at the moment seems just an Instagramable whim and a loss of area. There will probably be an extension of the building (in red in the wooden models)which would bring the architectonic dialogue towards the TGH-48 Car Park, by the architect Savin...