Bulevardul Brătianu
Brătianu Boulevard
The
most important urban intervention in Bucharest in
the inter-war period, originally envisioned at the
end of the 19th century, was the tracing
of the axis created by the Tache Ionescu – Ion C.
Brătianu boulevards (now Gheorghe Magheru – Nicolae
Balcescu).
Ionescu catches the Bratianu Boulevard in a general
view with a frontal perspective. The buildings are
built in the spirit of the functionalism promoted in
that era by the international style (in Bucharest,
the first buildings made in functionalist style were
private houses, not public buildings).
The boulevard is a space of rigor and massiveness.
In the left side of the image one can see the
Carlton block, brought down by the earthquake from
1940. We can find like an inventory, all the means
of transportation that worked in that period: cars,
carriages, electric trams, trucks, buses. Also an
island can be seen, a sign of traffic settlement.
The crowd is gone.
