Hotel Lipa
Twenty-two rooms in a converted wine cellar and a new timber wing behind it, at the foot of Fruška Gora.
Sremski Karlovci
2025
1,650 m²
Completed
Lipa Hospitality d.o.o.
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The cellar was built in the 1880s and used for wine until 1991. Its vaults are 70 cm thick and stay at 14 degrees all year. We kept them as the reception, bar and breakfast room, and put the bedrooms in a new two-storey wing in the courtyard.
The new wing
Cross-laminated timber on a concrete ground floor, clad in lime-washed boards. Every room faces the vineyards to the south and has a window seat deep enough to sleep on.
Working with the town
Sremski Karlovci is a protected historic centre, so the roof pitch, tile colour and street frontage were all agreed with the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Novi Sad. Approval took eleven months. Construction took nine.