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The Postal office Tower of the New Shumen City Center. Shumen, Bulgaria.

The city center project was finished in 1987 and underwent a real public discussion with exhibited models for the Shumen. Excavation works started. The Shumen city center should have been included an ambitious group of public buildings - a trading house, a concert center, a bank, a post office, a hotel complex, a restaurant and a coffee shop, underground parking lots and tunnels, squares with fountains.

The New Shumen City Center was built and left in uncompleted state since 1989.

architect Ivan Sivrev

(c) BACU / Photo Dumitru RUSU

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The Administrative Palace

2 Republicii Boulevard

Ploiesti, Romania

Built in 1968-1971.

Architect: Sever Nițu.

© BACU / Dumitru RUSU

source from the book - "Socialist Modernism in Romania and the Republic of Moldova"

The Grozăveşti Power Station/C.E.T. Grozăvești

Bucureşti, Romania

© B.A.C.U. / Dumitru RUSU

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@fdestribute During the Socialist-Era in Romania huge massive soc-modernist apartment buildings were built according to the national development plan. In the city of Alba Iulia they were planning a majestic boulevard but realized one of the bloks got in their way. They split the building in two and moved one of the halves to the other side of the road. They dug under the building, put railways and wheels and moved it 55 meters away (180 ft). The whole operation took 5 hours and 40 minutes and the (now) 2 separate buildings were moved apart on a 33 degree inclined angle. All this was done with the residents still inside the building. The engineer Eugeniu Iordăchescu, the one who saved by moving 12 churches that were intended to be demolished by order of Nicolae Ceauşescu in the ‘80s, was the author of a real “ engineering miracle ” here in Alba Iulia. #brutgroup Photos Via: #socmod #socheritage ; https://www.instagram.com/p/CEhhGpPlag3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@fdestribute Construction of apartment buildings, Matveyevskoe, Moscow, 1972 #brutgroup photo unknown via #socheritage #socialistmodernism https://www.instagram.com/p/CKmDfKFlg1o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Fountain dedicated to José Martí, a figurehead of Cuban independence, and the revolutionary leader Abel Santamaría, Santiago de Cuba. #brutgroup photography by Matthew Connors #socmod #socialistmodernism #utilitarianarchitecture #socheritage https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtgK9YsEEU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

DDR Pankow/East Berlin swimming pools during late 1960s #brutgroup photo via #socmod #socialistmodernism #socheritage https://www.instagram.com/p/CrgnFS5sBQy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Panorama Hotel Ski Resort in Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia, 1970 #brutgroup photo via #socialistmodernism #socheritage https://www.instagram.com/p/CbyZ4FEKDJY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hotel Europa in Eforie Nord, 70s România #brutgroup photo via #socheritage #socmod #socialistmodernism https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq6aAZ5M2_D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Tallinn, Estonia, Narva highway, 1978 Hotel Viru #brutgroup photo: unknown #socmod #socialistmodernism #socheritage #utilitarianarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq20h2xsf44/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Isolation party, @sovietmodernism artwork by Jan Pypers #socialistmodernism #socheritage #brutgroup #socmod #utilitarianarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq0XNcws33e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@sovietmodernism "Shashlychnaya" grill house, Moscow,, 1970 #brutgroup Photo © unknown via #socheritage #socmod #utilitarianarchitecture #socialistmodernism #sovietmodernism https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq0Wep0M7VC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@socheritage as Former "Druzhba" Sanatorium, Yalta, Crimea. (1985) Architects: I. Vasilevsky, Y. Stefanchuk #BRUTgroup Photo by Anastasia @nakifaria via #socialistmodernism #socheritage https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0Upyhh5di/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=