Far from the city's major arteries and their strict urbanism, bearing a rustic ease, I found a spacious enough area to allow the construction to evolve naturally. The area also offered a natural work element - a dashing walnut with which I established a powerful relationship, more than just a juxtaposition. The surface opened in a large angle, to include visually this walnut. The functions and the terraces organized in a way that allowed its detection from about any house area, and the construction's limit became irregular to permit the interior and the exterior to "collaborate". Due to the fact that the interior created organic views to the landscape, the exterior became more of a cast, a thin layer applied over the function. The interior space was treated most carefully. From the inside the general idea of plan developed, in order to offer more information against the "fairness" of the space. The abundance of interior meaning proved to be more important than the stress of offering to the passers by a façade of wellbeing. Fortunately, the clients had the quality to understand and accept.
PROIECT: ARH. FLORIN ADAMESCU
COLABORATOR, TEXT: ARH. CRISTINA ADAMESCU
FOTO: ARH. MIHAI RAICU

With its arched entrance towards Saint Anton Square, with its picturesque facade on Dambovita bank, reminding the Splai of Bucharest full of long robes and caravanserais, with its interior yard bordered by long porches, nicely shaped and carved in wood in a very "Romanian" manner, Hanul lui Manuc has more of a legendary appearance than reality, and you almost don't believe that a image so alive of old times can exist in the heart of today's grey city. Manuc himself is not less involved in legend than his inn. A "smart Armenian" who knew how to follow his interest with master ship, alternating dangerously the trust of The Gate with the one of the Russian tsar, Manuc-bei was a truly rich man, having in its keeping houses, shops, manors, mountains. At a certain point he even lived in Paris, which was "frightened by his wealth and pomp". Somebody predicted that he will die poisoned, fact that happened in Rusia, because of a servant.
TEXT: ARH. CODINA DUSOIU
FOTO: SERBAN BONCIOCAT

Usually intended to be as neutral as possible, the spaces of the stores are, generally, just packaging for merchandise intended to be as much emphasized as possible. The design of the Fabrik store tries to enforce its operation by more means than the usual process of offer-selling-buying. As it is a clothes store, it is quite easy to separate the target "audience" – young people having certain image and life style common features, derived from the same taste in music (house, techno) or the clubs they go to. This, together with the fact that, due to its position, the store is out of the heavy pedestrian traffic of the Magheru boulevard (therefore it doesn’t address the "passer-bys", but to a certain group of people, with certain preferences, determined the design to follow a customized image of the space, image that we wanted to belong to the same "vocabulary" used by the potential future clients, and the same image they move within.
DESIGN, TEXT, FOTO: ANDREI SERBESCU (STUD. ARH. AN VI)

"The rhythm in which we can intervene in a building renovation, in contrast with economically better placed people, is slower. In my neighbourhood there are houses that could have a certain charm although it was a neighbourhood initially conceived as a cheap and standard buildings assembly, but even in their repetitive identity it could hold a certain picturesque character, if they wouldn't have a weary facade. I can not go inside, but I think the weary facade leads even in the interior to tiredness. I am looking with joy how, slowly, on my street and the surrounding ones, new constructions appear, unfinished though and I don't understand what's happening there; with great speed structures are born that remain, afterwards, unfinished, it is also probably due to commercial or economical reasons. As for the inadvertency regarding the constructions it is a flagrant, sad and depressing one. Probably not long from now the owners will be able to renovate, rearrange, and reshape this contact with the street"¦"