The New Germia Shopping Mall

The New Gërmia Shopping Mall is one of the few architectural projects in the city of Pristina designed by a woman. Ljiljana Raševska, in line with other iron-facade shopping malls, adorned Gërmia with an already-recognizable Yugoslav typology. Built in 1972 to represent a new state economy in full strength, it replaced the merchants that were located along the street that went from the National Theater to the former Divan Yoli Street. The escalators in the interior,  novelties at the time, were especially memorable for the younger ones. Formerly a very accessible space, today, Gërmia hardly catches your eye, mostly because of the intervention done to the exterior and function of the building.