Bucharest’s public buildings of today and yesterday: the Town hall of the Green District IV, currently the Town hall of District 1
Bucharest’s public buildings of today and yesterday: the Town hall of the Green District IV, currently the Town hall of District 1

Summary/Abstract: By their very nature, public buildings belong to those properties that are invested without any difficulties with all the types of cultural values. As edifices that serve and represent communities (and not only some of their members), this category of buildings inherently enjoys all those features that necessarily bestow their cultural identity, as it is always endowed with those attributes that embody relative artistic and technical values; also, due to their use, such architectural products are rare or unique. Being looked into from the viewpoint of its cultural relevance, the study that substantiates the complex restoration design drawn up during the same year of 2010, the Town Hall of District 1, Bucharest is no exception to any of the previously mentioned perspectives. On the contrary, when explored through less common lenses as, for instance, its impact on the context in the past, the investment value or the echoes in the period publications, this property allows a more refined definition of its significance at the time it was conceived and erected, a kind of significance that we should probably integrate more profoundly within the system of values we assign to it today.

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