In the group of blocks from 134-136 Oltenitei Road, which is now near the Constantin Brancoveanu metro station, the construction began in 1957? According to the residents, it was intended for employees of the Ministry of the Interior and should have covered several streets.
The other day we spoke with Mara Mărginean, researcher at the “George Baritiu” Institute of History in Cluj-Napoca of the Romanian Academy. Her expertise in urban history helps us introduce the concepts of standard of living, consumption, work and built space into documentation. We discussed the implementation of socialist realism…
The blocks on Păsculescu Tei street were presented in the press of the day as “the temptation of least resistance”?
In Vatra Luminoasa neighborhood, prefabricated elements were used instead of plastered brickwork for the first time in Bucharest?
The schematic design of the blocks in Panduri began in 1952 and it was carried out with the intention to create optimal conditions of comfort for future tenants and to fit “into the urban manner of the neighboring construction complex”? To balance the urban composition, it was intended to build…
Dash Film, together with the Zona Studio Association and Rusticity ehf. started the project “Cvartal – Cultural Heritage of Bucharest Neighbourhoods”. The project aims at the cultural activation of Bucharest neighbourhoods through the development of multidisciplinary cultural products focused on the history of micro-communities associated with cvartal buildings and through…