Today’s photos show the lake in the Park of the Circus (Parcul Circului in Romanian) with its beautiful lotuses. The Park of the Circus was landscaped in 1961.
Today is Theme Day at the City Daily Photo community, a monthly event that happens the first day of every month, when all participating blogs will post a picture that relates to the theme day’s description. Today’s theme is: Reflections. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
I like today’s theme, in fact this blog has a whole series on reflections (just click on the reflections tag and you’ll see). Today’s photo shows the lake in Alexandru Ioan Cuza park (former IOR park) and some of the tenement blocks that surround the park.
Ceauşescu’s regime left Bucharest with many dark legacies incluging his Civic Center project which I mentioned before on this blog. Many buildings intended to be part of this new image of Bucharest were unfinished when the communists were forced to give up power at the end of 1989. Some of the buildings were completed later, but the one in today’s reflection did not share their fate. This massive edifice which is supposed to be the new house of the National Library collection is still half way to being ready. Work on the building stopped in 1986, even though the building was supposed to be ready in 1989. Finally, more than 20 years later, work was restarted last year and these day we can see it progressing slowly.
Zlătari Church reflected in the glass building called Bucharest Financial Plazza, on Victory Road (Calea Victoriei).
Can you spot the palace in the above photo? If not, you’re allowed to peak below as well 
It’s snowing heavily outside. There’s already a lot of snow on the ground and it’s been announced that schools will be closed tomorrow. For these reasons I decided to post a photo taken last November to remind us of a sunny time when everything was not colored in white. Not to talk about the fact that this decision spares me from going outside So here it is for you to admire another addition to the reflection series. The apartment building that’s the subject of the reflection was built in 1936 by architect Nicolae Cucu.
Since yesterday I’ve showed you the National Bank building, it’s going to be easy to guess what is showing in today’s reflections.
As I said in one of my previous posts, I’m a sucker for reflection photos. I believe that in photography reflections can bring out amazing effects and make us look at things through a different perspective. So here is another one of my tries at getting a nice reflection photo. This one was taken in downtown Bucharest and it shows the tower of the modernist Adriatica office building (1936) reflected at sunset in the Novotel Hotel.
For today a grim communist style tenement block reflecting in a dull glass building, the kind that nowadays you can see all around the world. Architectural boredom at its best, but part of Bucharest too and this is why I decided to show them.