Činovnička Kolonija (Serbian: Чиновничка колонија, meaning "Clerks' Colony") is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
It is delineated by the elementary school "Karađorđe" to the north, Voždovac Church to the south and by two major city streets, Kumodraška to the east and the Liberation Boulevard to the west.
[1] In 1928, the cooperative purchased from the Belgrade municipality a vast lot of completely non-urbanized section of the Queen Maria's Suburb.
[2] The Cooperative founders originally envisioned the settlement which would consist of several blocks of modern buildings, surrounded by the parks.
The buildings was planned as the neatly packed, monumental edifices in the centers of large parks, with addition of "all technical facilities which will contribute to the coziness of dwelling".
[1] The settlement in general was designed by the Czech émigré architect Jan Dubovy as a neighborhood of the residential family houses and villas with yards and green belts in between.
[1][2] Each proprietor was free to choose an architect, but some of the basic guidelines set by Dubovy had to be followed: hipped roofs (folded into the pagoda style), green exterior shutters (either wooden or metallic), windows with ventilation dividers (šprosna), access staircase (bordered by the low bricked wall) to the entry doors, etc.
As Dubovy was a staunch Modernist, general request was also not to place figures, pilasters, ornamental garlands and other classical decorative elements.
For the most part they have no ornaments, but have protruded eaves and hipped roofs, mimicking the folk type of construction, especially of the ground-floor houses.
Also, in order to obtain the largest possible floor area, the entire lots are urbanized so the gardens and yards are being destroyed.
Venues and facilities in the vicinity of the neighborhood include the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the Red Star's Rajko Mitić Stadium and the memorial of the Topovske Šupe concentration camp.
[1][3][4] In the southeast corner of the neighborhood, north of the church and elongated along the Vojvode Stepe Street, is the Voždovac Park.