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post updated 20 January 2026

Romanian Architecture Designs – chronological list

Romanian Architecture News 2026

20 January 2026
Sofitel Bucharest Oscar Maugsch Palace, University Square
Architects: Ran & Morris Creative Partnership

photo : MOD Studio

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Romanian Architecture News 2025

27 August 2025
MOSH Bar and Dinner, Bucharest restaurant, Strada Matei Millo 5
Architects: INNOCAD Architecture

photo : Paul Ott Photografiert

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Romanian Architecture News 2024

20 November 2024
Strada Rosetti Home, Brăila, Romania

photo : Manea Kella

News from The Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), the professional body responsible for the regulation of Romanian architectural practice:

The results of the international competition ‘Colentina Lakes, 2nd District‘, Bucharest were announced on Tuesday, 17th September 2024, during a press conference held in Bucharest.

The main objective of the competition was to select the three best design solutions for each of the three lots in order to contract the design services for the lakeshore development of the six Colentina lakes.

Lot 3 design:

STATEMENT OF THE JURY, International Design Competition for COLENTINA LAKES, 2ND DISTRICT, BUCHAREST, 2024

„The Colentina River plays an important role in the development of Bucharest and includes several important historical landmarks in addition to its environmental importance as a green and blue corridor.

The Colentina Lakes project has the ability to be a visionary landscape project for the city, the region and the nation. It can act as an exemplary project to promote the importance of clean water in the city, access to nature, and enhancing the lifestyle and wellbeing for a diverse and growing population. The jury strongly felt that in order for the project to realise this ambitious project to improve the quality of the landscape and access to the lakes, that the strategy for cleaning and improving the water quality needs to be integral to the conceptual approach from the start.

The natural ecosystem cannot be thought of independently to the human activity surrounding the lake as the two are intertwined. The attraction of the string of lakes is the water and without an improvement in the quality of the water, the project is unlikely to be successful. Human habitation has degraded the water quality and surroundings, but human intervention has the capacity to reverse these conditions and create an environment where both people and the natural habitat can thrive.

After long professional debates, the jury decided to award the first place for all lots to the project whose concept scheme stood out through its character and its capacity to become a best practice example. The jury reached this decision after four successive rounds of debates, at the end of which it concluded that this team has both the most convincing conceptual approach, as well as the strongest individual proposal for each lot.”

Lot 1 design:

Lot 3 design:

Lot 1 design:

The 1st PRIZE was awarded, for all 3 lots, to Project number 103 – PP1001 proposed by PELINU PROJECTS SRL – BEROS ABDULARHITECTI ASOCIATI SRL

Main authors: PELINU PROJECTS SRL (Laura Cristea, Raphael Zuber) – BEROS ABDUL ARHITECTI ASOCIATI SRL (Christian Beros).

Co-author: Maurus Schifferli Landschaftsarchitekt AG.

Architectural collaborators: Edyta Filipczak, Michał Starzyński, Erich Babă, Ana Brebeanu, Mădălina Dobre, Bianca Dumitru, Ana-Maria Marțiș, Raluca Mihăilă, Andreea Stah, Adi Bratu (visualisations)

The blueprints of the winning project, as well as the other proposals in the competition, can be consulted on the OAR website, following the link: https://oar.archi/en/concursuri/oar/colentina-lakes/rezultatele-concursului/

27 architectural office teams participated in the competition with 53 projects, of which 20 were from Romania – Bucharest, Cluj, Suceava, Maramures, the remaining 7 teams were from international associations from Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States of America.

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Previously on e-architect:

Romanian Architectural News 2021 – 2022

Romanian Architecture News 2021 – 2022

24 July 2022
Palas Residential, Iași county
Design: UNStudio

render : WAX
The IULIUS Group selects UNStudio’s proposal for a new development in Iasi from designs submitted by four of the world’s leading architecture firms. The design proposal submitted by Dutch architects office UNStudio has been selected as the winning design for Palas Residential, their latest project in the historical downtown of this city.

13 May 2022
Palace of the Parliament, Strada Izvor 2-4, București
Design: Anca Petrescu Architect

photo © Daniel Lomholt-Welch

22 Feb 2022
MORA35 a Sophisticated Home, Bucharest
Architects: sculpta

photo : Vlad Pătru – photography

21 Feb 2022
Small Space in a Postwar Building, Bucharest
Architects: sculpta

photo : Vlad Pătru – photography

5 Apr 2021
Electra Electronic industry Centre, Miroslava, Iași county
Design: APLUSNOIMA

photo © Katerina Nedelcu
The Electronic Industry Centre in Iași brings together 11,000 square meters of production, office, technical and representation spaces, in a compact set of three industrial halls. They are linked together by a central body, which houses the common functions. At the center of this core sits a connecting “void”.

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Romanian Architecture News 2018

28 Jun 2018
CRAZY_Undr Club Constanta
Design: re-act now Architects

photo : Andrei Margulescu
We are dominated by mental flashbacks of some residual urban spaces, “ghost” spaces or spaces dismantled of initial activities.

28 Jun 2018
Funky Resto Bar Bucharest, 33A Dorobanti, Bucharest
Design: re-act now Architects

photograph : Gabriela Enache

post updated 21 Feb 2018 with new photos
Hotel Atra Doftana, Valea Doftanei
Design: TECON Architects

photo : Cosmin Dragomir
The building is situated nearby a mountain lake and is configured with two major volumes, taking advantage of the natural form of the site, which presents two major level drops alternated with two approximately flat areas: one volume that houses the rooms and reception, and the second volume that contains living and dining spaces, the restaurant kitchen and technical spaces.

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Romania Architectural Updates 2014 to 2017

30 Oct 2017
Stefan cel Mare Building in Bucharest
Architects: Lauster & Radu Arhitecti

photograph : Andrei Margulescu
Until 2006 the site located at the intersection between B. Mumuleanu and Tunari Street was a neighborhood vulcanization shop for cars. Between 2006 – and February 2015 the site was empty and people were mistakenly using it as a place for garbage.

11 Jan 2017
Take a(l)titude – Lighthouse on Făgăraș Mountains, Ploiești
Design: Archaeus ltd.

photo © Dan Purice
The Făgăraș Mountains are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania. A “lighthouse” in the Fagaras mountains, on the most dangerous (and the most beautiful) places.

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Bucharest Apartments, Str. Dogarilor 26–30, București / 26–30, Dogarilor Street, Bucharest
Design: ADN Birou de Arhitectură

photo : Cosmin Dragomir
One of the most important and problematic aspects of nowadays Bucharest is the fast densification of the central area. While the architects believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, they also admit that the often fragile relationship between habitation within an old neighborhood and the increase of density could many times alter the place and reduce its existing qualities.

14 Jul 2016
Garage Conversion in Bucharest
Design: arhiDOT

photograph : Arthur Tintu
This architectural practice wanted an unconventional and representative space, small and manageable, a place where we’ll feel more at home than at the office, providing a direct contact with the street and the city. Thus they set their office in a 22 square meters garage (used for storage at that moment), on the ground floor of a 60’s apartment building in Bucharest, recovering a forgotten space at the same time.

21 Mar 2014
New Control Tower Airport, Cluj-Napoca
Design: Kubota & Bachmann Architects

perspective : Jigen ; image courtesy of architects
The « passive house » and the concrete constructions have both minimized openings given by three triple glazed windows. This construction is optimal for insulation and to avoid energy leakage. It is also very useful in blocking noise pollution created by airplanes.

More Romanian Architecture News online soon.

Location: Romania, southeast Europe.

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Architecture in Romania

Romanian Buildings

Romanian Architect

Romania is located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,397 sqkm and a temperate-continental climate.

With almost 20 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth-largest city in the EU. Key buildings include sites such as Bran and its Dracula’s Castle, the Painted churches of Northern Moldavia, the Wooden churches of Maramureș and the Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu.

More Modern Buildings in Romania

More recent buildings in the country:

6 Mar 2013
Avincis Winery Building, Olt Valley, Dragasani
Design: BBM Grup S.R.L.

photo : Andrei Margulescu
Located about 230 km northwest of Bucharest, in the Olt Valley, the hills of Dragasani – an old winemaking tradition area – AVINCIS ensemble comprises: a mansion, a winery composed of two buildings (A and B) and the park. MANSION – built in 1905 in the neo-Romanian style, was in semi-ruins but still standing up in June 2007 when we first visited the site and still having sufficient originating architecture elements to be worth restored.

14 Feb 2013
Cluj Arena Building
Design: Dico Si Tignans Birou De Proiectaire Srl

photo : Cosmin Dragomir
Cluj Arena is a multipurpose stadium built on the footprint of the previous two facilities of the last hundred years on the same spot.

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21 May 2012
Free Form Building, Cioboteni
Design: Portik Adorján

image from architects
The building is designed for a five member family. It contains – next by the living area – five bedrooms and two bathrooms. The internal spaces are arranged in the living area in a high ground-floor, the bedrooms and the service areas on two levels. The garage and an external storage forms a separate volume.