Bucharest yesterday and today

hey menomuret

nice pics!

Do you have any more pics of Piata Revolutiei? I'm especially interested in the Building, I think is somewhere across from the National Library - A building with the old stone Facade, with a glass building built within it...

o you have any more pics of Piata Revolutiei? I'm especially interested in the Building, I think is somewhere across from the National Library - A building with the old stone Facade, with a glass building built within it...

That is the building of the Order of Architects and it was built few years ago. The project was by a group of teachers and students from Ion Mincu University of Architecture in Bucharest. It was a tentative to imitate some similar projects from Western Europe by implementing a new building in the structure of an elder one but it was a fiasco because the old building was a house partialy destroyed during the fights at Revolution in December 1989.

That house was burned then, pierced by bullets and left in that stage as a witness of the Revolution (the others buildings in Piata Revolutiei also have been partialy destroyed but restored). So, the traces of bullets have been filled out, the burned walls have been re-whitewashed (is not the only example of Romanian stupidity) and in the core of the old building was placed the foundation of the new one.


Look pictures of Revolutiei Square (called the Square of Royal Palace before 1947) in pre-war period, during the 1989 Revolution and today and with the new building:

where is this building?

Close to Victoriei Square, between Titulescu and Mihalache boulevards.

Look a photo of it from Victoriei Square:




Edited by Menumorut - 16-Apr-2007 at 13:28

I found today a new site, the first dedicated to the architecture and tradition of Bucharest. I put here some photos from it:

            


More at http://www.orasul.ro/ (the photos are at sections "Locuri" and "Strazi")





Edited by Menumorut - 02-May-2007 at 14:02