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National Library in Bucharest, another building that fell to modernism.

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  1. LopoGames says

    Originally posted by u/thoughtstobytes in r/ArchitecturalRevival

    I can’t crosspost so I thought I would at least credit in the comments.

  2. SweatyNomad says

    Was this one of the Ceausescu monuments that was a concrete shell never completed in his reign? I spent time in Bucharest and want to say I stayed across the road from a building just like this one that was a concrete shell just left for years unfisnished even when he was around.

  3. Bearded4Glory says

    This reminds me of the San Francisco public library. Very similar in design with a modern take on a classical building.

    Was there something structurally wrong with the old one?

  4. leyero61 says

    new one actually looks pretty good

  5. adamzep91 says

    That’s postmodernism. I know this sub thinks anything after 1940 is “modernism”, but come on.

  6. That_Geza_guy says

    Actually I like the new one better

    Especially as the old one on closer inspection doesn’t seem to be actually that old or fancy, just given a classical facade

  7. powderherface says

    Modernism ended with the second world war.

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