After the earthquake of 1977, in full systematization of rural and urban localities, Nicolae Ceausescu decided it is time to start reconstruction of Bucharest.
Architects around the country have competed in the plans of the most ambitious in May. The competition was won by young Anca Petrescu. She suggested raising a series of monumental buildings consisting of House of the Republic, Guest House (now the Hotel Marriot), Radio House, House of Romanian Academy, Ministry of National Defense and the Victory of Socialism Boulevard.
By far the most imposing building was to be the House of the Republic. Ceausescu wanted to make it both residence and headquarters of the Central Committee and the Grand National Assembly. had built a boulevard in front higher than the Champs Elysees and the buildings of the semicircle was to be headquarters of ministries.
Shipyard opened in 1980. He demolished all over an area of 50 hectares. He was removed from the earth Spirii Hill neighborhood and with it Monastery Vacaresti Brancovenesc Hospital, National Archives, Stadium Republic and all the buildings of the nineteenth century, 57 thousand families lost their homes.
In the summer of 1984, the couple signed the official opening of the building site dictatorial House of the Republic, that although work had begun a year before.
House of Parliament or House of the People, as the building was known before the revolution, holds the Guinness Records Book:
270 MEASURE Parliament Palace in length and 245 meters in width. The 12 levels from the surface reach 86 meters high and the foundation down to 92 meters deep.
Parliament Palace has a total area of 330,000 square meters, is the largest administrative building in the world.
Guinness World Records has signed her second place in the world that held area after the Pentagon, and the place that Volume III, with 2,550,000 cubic meters.
The building has however and unofficial records. One is that all materials used in the CONSTRUCTION and its interior fittings are Romanian.
Carpets are wool and were made to Cisnadie largest of which measures 1,500 square meters and weighs over 3 tons. All curtains are silk brocade woven in Sighisoara in technique.
They also used more than 1,000,000 cubic meters of marble Ruschita, the deer and Moneasa.
The building has no less than 2,800 chandeliers which were folost 3500 tonnes of crystal Medias.
The long room is the Hall of Fame - 150 meters.
What is the biggest hall of the union - 2200 square meters and Alexandru Ioan Cuza Hall is the highest.
The building has been used 5,500 tons of cement, 7 thousand tons of steel, 20 thousand tons of sand, a thousand tons of basalt, 900 thousand cubic meters of wood, 200 thousand meters of patrauti 3500 square meters of glass and leather.
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