"The House of People" Bucharest Romania “The House of People“ is the biggest building in Romania and the second in the world, after the Pentagon,...

"The House of People" Bucharest

Romania

“The House of People“ is the biggest building in Romania and the second

in the world, after the Pentagon, ****************************************************************************

Was erected at the will of the dictator Ceausescu, during his last years of dictatorship. He has never seen it finished, he was killed during the

Romanian "revolution" in 1989. *****************************************************************************************************

"The House of People" was built on a former hill, the Uranus hill(with old houses, churches, little and quiet merchant streets).

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Nothing escaped from demolition, not even the hill, which was leveled to ground, 8 basements were constructed, then, an artificial hill covered the

enormous infrastructure of the building.*********************************************************************************************************

The demolished area from Bucharest's historical centre is equal with the surface of Venice.

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No need to mention that the human scale, which we know from Classic and Renaissance architecture was the least thing architects took into

consideration.****************************************************************************************************

It's interesting, the largest church in Romania fits inside the largest meeting hall of the "House".

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Nowadays, the "House" belongs to the Parliament of Romania, politicians feel actually very comfortable in this huge construction and represented by

it never the less. ********************************************************************************************************

Most of Romanians were hating this symbol of dictatorship so deep that they were about to demolish it like Bastille.

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Others, like a big postmodern architect, say that the "house" and institutions that form an assembly is one of the most significant

postmodernist architecture was ever built.**********************************************************************************************

“The House of People” represents a big wound in the hearth of the city but also the most visited monument of Bucharest .

Arrangement by Ileana Godeanu