Reposting to correct and clarify.
Old facade of a new business in Bucharest. (boredpanda.com)
Behind this stern but elegant classical façade – in Bucharest! – lurks one of the most astonishing and effective mixtures of the old and the new that I have ever seen. And the fact that it is a bookstore, restored to its former dignity after being confiscated by Romania’s communist regime, tops all things. Open the link to the new Carturesti (Carousel of Light) Bookstore. The interior design is by Square One, of Romania, most of whose work, aside from this one project, stinks of the usual orthodoxy. Tell me if you agree that this fine-grained contemporary treatment of a classical interior meets with your approval, and whether it embraces the aesthetic criteria of rhythmic complexity that I have long considered a requirement for modernism to fit with coherence into a traditional setting (interior or exterior). Most attempts to…
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Very elegant reuse and renovation
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