Photo: Interior Details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall Building in Sarajevo (first floor interior design with pillars, arches and roof mosaic visible from the entrance hall). Photo by Julian Nyča4 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo is a reconstructed building, that serves as a multi - functional Town Hall while previously the building used to be a National Library. The building is reconstructed and refurbished in the same Pseudo – Mauro architectural style and the reconstruction has finished with opening the Town Hall doors in the year 2014. The building is a National heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina and previously as UNESCO heritage building.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall (interior first floor walls and arches). Photo by the Eminent Atelier
As seen on the photo above, the entrance hall is covered with a glass cone rooftop that lets light into the main hall and during the sunny days enhances the beauty of the building interiors. Visitors can see the rounded pillars and rounded arches that support the ground floor’s and first floor ceilings, moulded surfaces in the cornices and friezes. The celebration of details is visible in every part of the building as ornaments that surround the inside walls of this building.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall (interior ceiling and walls). Photo by the Eminent Atelier
More details of the ornamented design of the glass ceiling in a vitrage glass style, angle borders and walls in the Pseudo – Moorish architectural style are visible on the photo above with interior details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall building.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo (exterior). Photo by Fred Romero from Paris, France1 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
In fact, the building itself has a grandiose overview that is placed at the end of the Old Town in Sarajevo and serves mainly as the Town Hall building with different celebrations marked in the building due to its large interior hall space. As seen on the photo above, the building exterior has the same type of building details as the interior details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall building.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo (during reconstruction and refurbishment). Photo by Milan Suvajac2 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The whole building Vijećnica – Town Hall Sarajevo is reconstructed and refurbished with the support of the EU.
From the ground floor is the entrance to the building, and the large main stairs invite visitors to the first floor with walls covered in tapestry ceramics.
Photo: Interior Details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall Building (ground floor and first floor interior design). Photo by Julian Nyča3 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
While stairs are covered with floral ornamented ceramics which add to the building interior design, the stairs’ fence is made of concrete and has an open, ornamented design with florals, stars and polygons.
Photo: Interior Details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall Building l (interior design of stairs’ walls). Photo by the Eminent Atelier
Through the stair fence are visible the entry stair walls that shine with coloured light from the windows and rooftop. More have a look at the photo above.
The building rooms are designed in the same style with lots of ambient lighting and windows for natural lighting, while the walls and ceiling are fully painted and covered in colourful details that speak much of the importance of the Vijećnica building itself.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall (windows type). Photo by the Eminent Atelier
The look on the photo above shows very clearly the window and door details that was paid much attention to while refurbishing the building walls. One detail as seen on the photo above shows mosaics of stars and polygons on the vitrage glass windows, while another detail has vertical elements of arched window openings. Some of the windows are made as glass wall openings, while other windows are actually used as windows for the natural air circulation.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall (second floor). Photo by the Eminent Atelier
On this photo are shown the detailed mosaics and sculptural finishes of the walls and ceilings and the connection of walls to ceilings, moulded surfaces in the cornice, friezes and borders, as well as long rows of arches and pillars with capitals and all the details that emphasize the second floor.
The basement of the Vijećnica is used as a gallery space for a permanent Vijećnica exhibition with glass walls and lighting for gallery space. The floor is covered in dark red granite ceramics. This space showcases the different multi - use of the building that has been a landmark in Sarajevo for such a long time since it was first built more than 120 years ago. The reconstruction and refurbishment brought a new life to this magical place.
More photos of the interior details of the Vijećnica - Town Hall building view on this link.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo. Photo by Fred Romero from Paris, France. From (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarajevo_-_Gradska_Vije%C4%87nica_(49132375346).jpg) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Copy-Paste into your browser.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo (during reconstruction and refurbishment). Photo by Milan Suvajac. From (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarajevo_Vijecnica_2011-10-28_(3).jpg) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Copy-Paste into your browser.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall (ground floor and first floor interior design). Photo by Julian Nyča. From (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarajevo_Vije%C4%87nica_Interior_1.JPG) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Copy-Paste into your browser.
Photo: Vijećnica - Town Hall in Sarajevo (first floor interior design with pillars, arches and roof mosaic visible from the entrance hall ). Photo by Julian Nyča. From (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarajevo_Vije%C4%87nica_Interior_2.JPG) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Copy-Paste into your browser.