Building sights in Bucharest
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Romanian TV Headquarters
A block south of Piaţa Charles de Gaulle is the long aqua-blue Romanian TV Headquarters, which was reduced to two hours' air-time per day in the late 1980s (one hour of which was devoted to presidential activities. On 22 December 1989 revolutionaries broke into the television building and announced on-air the collapse of the government. At the northern gate of the building is a small memorial to those killed here.
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Economic Consortium Palace
Bucharest's financial houses moved to the historic heart in the 19th century after the princely residence was moved to the north of the city. Just north of the National History Museum is the Economic Consortium Palace, designed by French architect Paul Gottereau in 1894-1900. Next door stands the Bucharest Financial Plaza, a mirrored building.
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National Institute for Science & Technology
On the Palace of Parliament's west side, walk back past B-dul Unirii to the building's south side to find the half-finished National Institute for Science & Technology, of which Elena Ceauşescu was president; half-done or abandoned buildings like this litter Bucharest.
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Securitate Building
The building shell, on the corner of Str Dobrescu and Str Boteanu, housed the hated, KGB-like Securitate and was destroyed by protestors. In 2003 the Romanian Architecture Union built a contemporary glass structure inside it to house their headquarters.
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