The House of the People
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Photos from the second largest building in the world, after the Pentagon--the "House of the People" in Bucharest, Romania
The House of the People
- 1. "The House of People" Bucharest Romania
- 2. The House of People is the biggest building in Romania and the second in the world, after the Pentagon, *
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- 4. 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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- 6. "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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- 8. 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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- 10. The demolished area from Bucharest's historical centre is equal with the surface of Venice. ****
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- 12. 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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- 14. It's interesting, the largest church in Romania fits inside the largest meeting hall of the "House". *
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- 16. 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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- 18. Most of Romanians were hating this symbol of dictatorship so deep that they were about to demolish it like Bastille. **
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- 20. 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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- 26. 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