Luxurious Lifestyle and First Private Building in Bucharest

A small tributary of Dambovita, named Colentina, several lakes stretch across the city, the most important being Lake Floreasca, Lake Tei and Lake Colentina. The region where Bucharest is now located was once covered by the Vlasiei forest, which, after it was cleared, gave way to a fertile flatland. As with many cities, Bucharest is traditionally considered to have seven hills, in the tradition of the seven hills of Rome. Bucharest’s seven hills are: Mihai Voda, Patriarhiei, Radu Voda, Cotroceni, Spirei, Vacaresti and Sf. Gheorghe Nou. In addition, in the center of the capital there is a small artificial lake - Lake Cismigiu. Surrounded by gardens and parks, it has a rich history, as it was frequented by famous poets and writers. The city has a total surface of 226 km2.

The altitude varies between 55.8 meters at the Dambovita bridge in Catelu, south-eastern Bucharest and 91.5 m at the Militari church.Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in Ilfov county. Probably the most famous club in Bucharest, founded by architecture students in a basement near the university. National Museum of Art located in the former royal palace, the museum features notable collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family. The modern Romanian collection features sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and Dimitrie Paciurea.

First private building in Bucharest:

Perhaps cruelty series of building apartment in bucharest, Nice Street building seems at best, the house is full, living, look, tenants have made improvements. At the “details” and “shades” look door for example, or bright windows, white, new windows, still in packaging, or the lamp of the hall, and improvised the illegal extensions in the attic All plastic or cardboard, reminiscent of flower-power time and floral wallpaper. A naive optimist might suspect that a hippie colony took over the building attic, unfortunately but “rebels” out their shoes at the door (plastic-Turkey) and platelets stick block wall “no park - a place reserved.


To understand why these interventions came to exasperating reader will share history and significance of building: Times like the present to Bucharest interwar period was a time when it was built very much, the difference being that it was built much better. Because of relatively inexpensive housing need, meaning something between bourgeois villa and cottage in suburban type houses appeared very economical and apartment buildings, belonging to cooperatives, for their workers. This creates buildings three, four and five stored, belonging to the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of War, railways, etc. Unlike the companies named above, who rent apartments of their officials, Modern Construction Company, led by engineer and architect Stephen Ermil PANGRAM Burcus, built in 1922, in order to sell the apartments, the first scale of the building with five floors at Street intersection of Victoria Avenue and beautiful, when other scales are selling apartments in the first phase of the project.

Street building is so beautiful first apartment building in Bucharest private property, following it a series of similar projects, such as 2-4 Bishop Street block or two eight-storey buildings of Senate Square. Cantacuzino land belongs to and the street was briefly Beautiful and Str. G. Gr Cantacuzino, resumed her old name but, due to proximity with “beautiful house”, which was the home of Croesus, the Cantacuzino Palace, the current George Enescu Museum. Indeed, the lucky owners of apartments situated on the southern side of the building have a unique view of the palace and the museum garden. The only consolation I do not live on that side is not seeing their daily frustrations you have hidden the Cantacuzino Palace degradation.

While under contract of sale designers ditch building architect and engineer Stephen Burcus Ermil PANGRAM, paternity is supported by an eclectic style of the building, there is an indication of Paul Constantine on universal dictionary of architects, according to which the property is Virginia Haret architect, architect guidance functionalist and then, but it never built in eclectic style.

The four sections of the building consists of two identical sections, at no. All scales of output corresponding to a long yard along the rear facade. Typical section is symmetrical, is developing along an axis passing through the main entrance lobby, lounge, patio, lounge side and rear exit. Symmetry is not perfect, because apartments situated on both sides of the axis differ by number of rooms and the rooms precisely outline. General layout is still subject to the symmetries, kitchens and service rooms are arranged around the stairs. Attic plan indicating existing attic rooms, which were initially made available to workers who repaired the building, or maintain it in good condition! At present, obvious that these rooms are not available to gay craftsmen, of good fairies of the building, but tenants host change, decay and improvises a slum suspended. Venetian mosaic floor in shades of brown, yellow, gray, scarlet, red, white, black, white marble stairs, elevator and hardware fittings corresponding balustrade balconies.

Apartment interiors are equipped differently, because of its ability to influence finishing housing owners. There are variations between lounge and dining room with French door, there are arcades, interior with stained glass windows there. Eclectic style of the building, there is talk an eclectic style of the French school, considering the elements of the bill parallels with neoclassical and French 19th-century buildings. Facades are highly decorated with gables of different windows on each level.

Discover why vegetable spirals to the ground and shell necklace facade, the ground on columns cluster consoles and balconies. Consoles small balconies, massive consoles that support the first floor, decorated with grapes, ove, olive leaf, etc. Lattice balconies vary from one level to another, and bring a different type of decoration of the facade, the bill watermark.

All the details found in this building than to make me not excluded: the beautiful building, how much love life and express concern for the future, how much consideration and sensitivity to the neighborhood so impressive the Cantacuzino Palace, as respect for the man who passed the threshold , how much complexity and diversity in the interior, taking into account that a block of flats is considered cheap. Living in one of Bucharest’s most beautiful apartments in a block of makes me feel like a princess. Cheap, petty ignorance and the attitude of the authorities and “experts” who do not consider it fit to join the list of buildings of architectural monuments.

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