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.
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.
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…