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