Oktogon
Glass-roofed Secession-era arcade with an eight-sided atrium, cutting through a former savings bank.
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This guide to the Oktogon passage in Zagreb goes back to the building site of the First Croatian Savings Bank just before nineteen hundred, where architect Josip Vancaš and his workmen took in a stray dog. It follows the crew and their unofficial night watchman, and the glass roof and prism-studded floor they left behind. Best heard standing in the eight-sided hall, under the glass.
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