We continue to present the less known story of the architect Iuliu Iancu / Jules Janco, Marcel Janco’s brother, as revealed through the fragmentary Romanian archives that are now studied by his granddaughter, Amit Janco, in an attempt to restore Jules Janco’s place in Romanian interwar architecture, alongside Marcel Janco, with whom he founded a […]
Late last year, our editorial office in Bucharest received a surprising email, signed by Amit Janco, whose grandfather had been the architect Iuliu Iancu / Jules Janco (1896-1985), the younger – and lesser known – brother of Marcel Iancu / Janco. After studying in Zürich, during the Interwar period the two worked together, as associated […]
ING has always been an innovative bank, with a lot of courage in experimenting novel solutions, this time, through a different approach in the organization of their new headquarters. Together with the consultants and the architecture team of AMA Design, they created a desk sharing strategy, through which the employees can choose where they want […]
The interior design of the Microsoft offices in Bucharest and Timișoara provided the architect teams with a good opportunity to question the interior design paradigm of workspaces. In a context where technology is often misunderstood as moving away from the human factor, or where the accent often falls, unfortunately, on imitation, it has become extremely […]
Medium-height office buildings are a sensible subject due to the specific tension between the characteristic architectural language that requires large glazed surfaces and the small volume, whose composition and morphology must somehow conciliate these extremes. Located in Bucharest, on a street with Modernist apartment buildings from the 1960s, placed in front of an urban tissue […]
The Grossmann Villa has an architectural beauty that is emblematic for the early Eclecticism of the Viennese persuasion. Located in the center of the city of Arad, the building was given a new life through an ample process of restoration and rehabilitation, being transformed into the headquarters of a communications company. The team of Mossfern […]
Recent history shows that, besides the traffic congestions on Valea Prahovei, Sinaia risks becoming a repertoire of failure in house building. In contrast with the balance between the built and natural environment, which was emblematic for the town until the ‘90s, an aberrant, abundant invasion of bad taste proves that, sometimes, being close to Bucharest […]
At the intersection of boulevards Mircea Eliade and Primăverii, an elegant white building captures our attention through its discretion and coherence. The low height, with three floors and a fourth recessed, is subtly configured in order to give the building an extraordinary dignity and a contemporary character. The team of Westfourth Architecture, coordinated by architect […]
