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The furniture that has resided in the building since the 1970s is stacked and waiting to be removed. Triangles and squares of wood and metal, the modular elements of floors and ceilings, are resisting as they are being torn out. The congress building Sava Centar embodied a vision of the future for the international, Non-Aligned, socialist Yugoslavia. After the country broke apart, this modernist landmark of New Belgrade was neglected by the state and, over decades, grew increasingly run down. In 2020, it was privatised, and two years later, its reconstruction followed. Like many of the younger workers, Nenad is in Sava Centar for the first time, detached from its past and the society that built it.