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