Comments on: Bank building on Lipscani

By: Andreea

Andreea — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:10:46 +0000

Bucharestian: Colfescu doesn’t mention the building in the edition that I have. The data I took from “Bucharest, architecture and modernity” by Mariana Celac, Octavian Carabela & Marius Marcu-Lapadat. They list the building as being built in 1910-1913. I found the mention about being built before 1900 on the web.

By: Bucharestian

Bucharestian — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:15:50 +0000

There is a consistent confusion in one of your sources (possibly Silvia Colfescu’s guidebook, which contains many errors), more precisely between this building and Dacia Insurance Palace (built in 1874) which lies 50 m. farther West, also on the Lipscani. As for the purpose of the building, it did not host two banks, but one: the General Romanian Bank, which actually was a branch of Gesselschaft and Bleichröder Bank. As the structure lies, together with the National Bank Palace, on the former site of Șerban Vodă Inn, we cannot but conclude that it was built after 1882, when the inn was demolished (possibly in 1895, when the General Romanian Bank was founded).

By: robert

robert — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:43:30 +0000

Having such round shapes, it might be a “spiral of time”. May it continue to provide bright and light days. Wonderful building to see indeed. Please have a nice Tuesday.