We are halfway through the screenings of the documentary film CVARTAL – Cultural Heritage of Bucharest Neighbourhoods. After the launch that filled the cinema hall of the Romanian Peasant Museum, the route of the screenings took us to Sala Gloria, Bazilescu Park and nJoy Garden & Club.
On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at the Peasant Museum Cinema, at 18.00, will take place the launch of the documentary Cvartal – Cultural Heritage of Bucharest Neighbourhoods, as well as 10 mini-volumes dedicated to the housing complexes known as “Russian blocks”.
In less than a month, the Studio Zona Association will launch 10 studies on the housing estates built in Bucharest between 1945 and 1958.
The Rahova district contains one of the districts of Bucharest. It is located on Șoseaua Alexandrei nr. 1, near Rahova Square.
The Drumul Sării Quarter impresses with its towering entrance, featuring a long hallway and coffered ceiling, bridging the gap between the street and the interior space. Built at the beginning of the communist era, this quarter is part of the series of Russian-style apartment blocks, standing out with its imposing…
On Basarabia Boulevard, within the ground floor of one of the residential blocks, there is a commercial space with a distinctive feature – the only preserved wooden frame in this complex.
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…
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,…
The neighborhood in Vatra Luminoasă has its origins in the interwar period. Initially, a few small villas were constructed for the middle class and public servants, mainly employees of the Ministry of Labor. Soon after, the first apartment blocks emerged, following the Stalinist urbanism model, which either manifested as linear…
Between 1954 and 1958, under the guidance of architect I. Antonescu, the first phase of construction of the residential complex on the former Muncii Boulevard, now Basarabia Boulevard, was initiated.