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The Bucharest blockade, “the people’s right to columns” or Stalinism with a human face. How barracks buildings became more expensive and sought after than new blocks of flats

The blocks of flats built in the 1950s in Bucharest look like garrisons, although they have facades and classical columns of a strange beauty. They open onto a green inner courtyard, a public space of their own, beneficial, though they had an obligatory “red corner” inside, a mini-library from which…

Cățelu, the only neighbourhood in Bucharest with long porches, like in the country, the genius of a great architect, Tiberiu Niga

Of all the neighbourhoods built during the communist period in Bucharest or in the country, none can compare with Cățelu. Between 1955 and 1959, near Baba Novac, the people’s power ordered the construction of a group of ground, first and third floor dwellings, most of them with only one small,…