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Description : University building, whose form is characterized by compact parallelepipeds united to each other, gives the impression of a fortress and evokes the reminiscences of the traditional Albanian tower performed in terms of modernism, where Gherardo Bosio oscillates between the memories of glorious Roman ancient times featuring arches and colonnades and a more rational sense of Florentine architecture. The newborn style brought in Albania for the first time the advantages of reinforced concrete completing the entire complex with the sports complex by building near it the Olympic Stadium with the grand entrance whose frontal façade is decorated with sculptures.
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Description : The Paka Hotel was designed by the architect Stanko Rohrman and was opened to public on 8th July 1961. It comprises a diverse ground floor and a six-storey, flat-roofed uniform volume which rises up on the ground floor.
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Description : The ensemble is among the first, if not the first, modern architecture ensemble built in the city center of Bucharest after the Second World War. Until this construction, there were not big modern interventions in the city center, new constructions were built outside city center on virgin lands.
The identified functions between 1960 and 1989 were political (all Communist Party congresses were held here), cultural (movies, concerts, theater, etc.), leisure (park), housing (apartment buildings) and commercial (the ground floor of the appartment buildings; the tower apartment building had also commercial spaces at the mezzanine level). Today, all functions are still in place, the difference is that the political one is no more the main function.
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Description : Created as a necessity of leisure by students in Iasi, the Students’ House of Culture has quickly become a real cultural landmark and a springboard for the young talents. The building includes an auditorium with 783 seats, foyers, exhibition halls, a library, conference rooms and various cultural and educational activities. The Students’ House of Culture has a total area of 2155 square meters.
Together with “Mihai Eminescu” University Library, the Students’ House of Culture gives a distinct characteristic to the Youth Square in Iasi, the entire area featuring a special architectural value.
Structurally, the building can be regarded as having the structural strength of reinforced concrete frames, locally braced by 25 and 37.5 cm thick-masonry.
The building was originally designed as a massive structure of masonry, with concrete floors, but during the design period it became a structure on frames with a performance hall placed in the middle of the built volume.
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