
Archive for 4 March 2009
A beggar of Venice
Posted in Mad about black and white, Mad about details, Portraits with tags beggar, Italy, Venice on 4 March 2009 by treefermentphotosThe House of the Free Press, as seen from Herastrau Lake
Posted in Architecture, Mad about black and white, Mad about mother nature on 4 March 2009 by treefermentphotos
The House of the Free Press is a hudge building in northern Bucharest, Romania, the tallest in the city between 1956 and 2007. Construction began in 1952 and was completed in 1956. The building was named Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Scanteii “I.V. Stalin” and later Casa Scanteii (Scanteia was the name of the Romania Communist Party’s official newspaper).
The largest building in Romania is the Palace of the Parliament, a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romania Parliament. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, this building is the world’s largest civilian administrative building (The Pentagon is the largest overall), most expensive administrative building, and the heaviest building.
