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final sketches were influenced primarily by the building in Geneva. Built in an eclectic style, it is rectangular with a large porch on a high basement and three upper floors. The stone façade features a portico supported by ten Doric columns and a platform consisting of twelve steps spanning the length of the building. There are many allegorical sculptural decorative details. Since 1972, the building has housed the
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226:. Ioan Pascu requested a permit for Săvulescu to build on his lot No. 75, which was actually No. 7. The plans were signed by Săvulescu, who built it in an eclectic style with classical elements, featuring a central hallway with symmetrical rooms laid out on either side. The bedrooms, located off a T-shaped corridor, opened into a garden.
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Ministry of Public Education and Religious Affairs and the president of the Romanian Society of Architects. He helped found both the latter organization and the Romanian National School of Architecture. Some of his most renowned buildings
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Among Săvulescu's best known works is the Post, Casa II (1892 - 1897) and
Telegraph Palace in Bucharest, built between 1894 and 1900. In 1892, the building was authorized, and Săvulescu was sent with the postal inspector, Ernest Sturza, to tour various postal facilities of Europe for the design. The
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built the monument in 1897, upon the initiative of
Colonel Scarlat Geanolu. It is located in the courtyard of a former infantry barracks. The bust is mounted on a solid, high pedestal to which are affixed two plates of black marble.
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moved from its former location to 310 Libertății Street. A local entrepreneur, M. Frangulea, obtained the plot and hired Săvulescu to build the new boys' primary school for the city. The following year, work began on the
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was built by Săvulescu between 1885 and 1886 in the neoclassical style. It is located at 182 Alexandru Ioan Cuza
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