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post updated 14 November 2024
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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:
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Lot 3 design:
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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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Romanian Architectural News 2021 – 2024
Romanian Architecture News
24 July 2022
Palas Residential, Iași county
Design: UNStudio
render : WAX
Palas Residential
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
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22 Feb 2022
MORA35 a Sophisticated Home, Bucharest
Architects: sculpta
photo : Vlad Pătru – photography
MORA35 a Sophisticated Home, Bucharest
There’s no denying that older buildings have more character and beauty than modern ones and this new renovation by Cristina & Anton Giuroiu of sculpta is here to showcase just that. While pre-war apartments feature large doorways, natural wood flooring, and heavy wooden doors, they lack new and practical amenities that most modern apartments have.
21 Feb 2022
Small Space in a Postwar Building, Bucharest
Architects: sculpta
photo : Vlad Pătru – photography
Small Space in a Postwar Building
In an aristocratic residential neighborhood known for retaining the mid-twentieth century charm, sculpta architects found a small hidden space in a Postwar Building. Spread over just 52 square meters, it still had the old terracotta stoves and floors made of solid wood.
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Electra Electronic Industry Centre, Miroslava, Iași county
Design: APLUSNOIMA
photo © Katerina Nedelcu
Electra Electronic industry Centre, Iași county
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CRAZY_Undr Club, Constanta
Design: re-act now Architects
photo : Andrei Margulescu
Nightclub in Constanta
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Design: re-act now Architects
photograph : Gabriela Enache
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Design: TECON Architects
photo : Cosmin Dragomir
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Stefan cel Mare Building, Bucharest
Architects: Lauster & Radu Arhitecti
photograph : Andrei Margulescu
Stefan cel Mare Building in Bucharest
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11 Jan 2017
Take a(l)titude, Lighthouse on Fagaras Mountains, Ploiești
Design: Archaeus ltd.
photo © Dan Purice
Lighthouse on Făgăraș Mountains in Romania
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Bucharest Apartments, Str. Dogarilor 26–30, București / 26–30, Dogarilor Street, Bucharest
Design: ADN Birou de Arhitectură
photo : Cosmin Dragomir
Bucharest Apartments
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, Bucharest
Design: arhiDOT
photograph : Arthur Tintu
Garage Conversion in Bucharest
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
The Flagship Tower, Cluj-Napoca
Design: Kubota & Bachmann Architects
perspective : Jigen ; image courtesy of architects
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Location: Romania, southeast Europe
Architecture in Romania
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, Olt Valley, Dragasani
Design: BBM Grup S.R.L.
photo : Andrei Margulescu
Avincis Winery Building
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, Cluj,
Design: Dico Si Tignans Birou De Proiectaire Srl
photo : Cosmin Dragomir
Cluj Arena Building
Cluj Arena is a multipurpose stadium built on the footprint of the previous two facilities of the last hundred years on the same spot.
21 May 2012
Free Form Buildings 01, Cioboteni
Design: Portik Adorján
image from architects
Free Form Building
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.
Dorobanti Tower, Bucharest
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
image from architect firm
Bucharest Tower
Victoria Palace extension : HQ of the Romanian Government, Bucharest
Design: de Architekten Cie.
image from architect practice
Victoria Palace building
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