The building located on Bucharest’s Bucureștii Noi Boulevard was known as the headquarters of the Masca Theatre, although the theatre had not been operating here for a long time. Originally, the building was known as the House of CUlture (or cinema) “Twinning between peoples”.
Did you know that the traces of the bullets fired during the 1989 Revolution can still be seen on the wall of a block of flats in Drumul Taberei?
The aerial image includes the original Drumul Taberei complex, the Ho Si Min barracks or military blocks on the left and the later extension with 4-storey apartment blocks (1958-1962) on the right.
Did you know that green areas in the courtyards of apartment blocks are an invaluable resource for modern urban communities? First of all, these green…
The quarter in Drumul Taberei was built in 1954-1958 according to the plans of architect Dumitru Oculescu with the purpose of being inhabited by members of the Romanian army. There are a total of 14 blocks here, totalling 582 apartments.
A series of photos from the 1960s, saved and scanned by Cineclic, reveal part of the Panduri housing estate, just a few years after its completion.
Somewhere between Mihai Bravu road and Baba Novac street, there is a completely atypical neighbourhood for this city: it is the experimental Cățelu neighbourhood, a minimal housing estate, flooded with greenery, pedestrian walkways and archways.
In the magazine Arhitectura RPR of 1958, arh. I. Antonescu describes the two stages of construction of the housing complex on Muncii Boulevard.
Last days we spoke with Irina Tulbure, author of the book “Architecture and Urbanism in Romania 1944-1960. Constraint and experiment”, one of the first syntheses about the link between politics and architecture in the early years of the communist regime.
Not all the quarters have access to the blocks from the inner courtyards, but all of them preserve the note of private space, almost intangible to a mere passer-by. While the entrances in the Cățelu quarter have a distinctive element, a simple vault or a slightly stylised arch, others in…