The Metropolitan City Hall has issued a permit for the construction of the Styrbey Palace on Kalea Viktoria, said Mayor Nikushor Dan. the project also involves the reconstruction of the former wagon depot. The owners reported that they have started a tender for the selection of a general contractor and are making every effort to start work soon.

• “I signed a permit for the restoration of the Styrbey Palace on Kalea Victoria, a historical monument built in 1835. It is one of the symbolic palaces of Bucharest, built by Barbu Styrbey before he became the ruler of Wallachia and used during his reign. princedom as the seat of protocol.
• The private owner will renovate the building at his own expense, preserving all the architectural elements, as well as restoring the missing body of the former carriage house.
• This is the first time since 1989 that a historic building that was demolished will be rebuilt,” Mayor Nikushor Dan wrote on his Facebook page.

The owner, the developer Hagag Development Europe, has announced that it has started the tender procedure for the selection of the general contractor and is making every effort to start work soon.

The building of the palace will be completely combined and restored with the preservation of proportions and height regime, facades and external and internal decorative elements will be restored in line with the original project, says the owner.

The project also envisages the reconstruction of the building of the annex of the former carriage house, a structure that will respect the volume and ratio of “full empty part” of the original building, by modeling the voids of the facade towards the palace, made in architecture and with modern materials.

“The exterior arrangement will include the vertical systematization of the court of honor facing Calea Victoriei, the segment of the court adjacent to the reconstructed semi-circular building, as well as the newly created inner courtyard at basement level on the western facade to provide a unified image for the entire complex,” the statement said. sent by the developer.

Once completed, the palace will house high-end commercial galleries and spaces for contemporary art and artists.

• “The Știrbei Palace is one of the most impressive buildings in Bucharest. Its architecture, neoclassical decorative elements and proportions were impressive in 1835 when it was built, and they are just as impressive now in 2022, even if the building is in a state of deep disrepair today.
• For us, as a real estate investor and developer with extensive experience in the segment of urban regeneration projects through the conversion of old buildings, owning another object in our local portfolio is both a pleasure and an honor.
• We are happy to be the ones who, some 200 years after the grand opening of the original structure, will write a new chapter in the history of this monumental building, so representative of the city,” says Yitzhak Hagag, co-founder and shareholder of Hagag. Development of Europe.

Mayor General Nikushor Dan said that no other modern construction would be allowed that would affect the palace and the surrounding area from an urban perspective.

The building is classified as a Class A historical monument, considered one of the most valuable and representative buildings for the architectural, cultural and historical heritage of Bucharest.

The owners give up the blocks in the palace yard

For more than 10 years, the owners of the palace have been trying to get the necessary approval from the capital’s mayor’s office to build quarters in the palace yard. The last time they came for approvals in 2020, they asked for a construction permit a block of 7 floors, respectively 34 meters high, in the garden of the Styrbey Palace.

According to a sign posted on April 1 on the palace fence, investor H Victoria Stirbei Galleries wants to strengthen the palace and build an atrium with vegetation next to it, followed by a 7-storey block that will reach 3 respectively. two floors in the direction of Banului Street and General Kostiantyn Budishtianu Street. As for the function, there are not many details, only that it will be a “multifunctional complex”.

In 2015, the capital’s city hall granted preliminary urban planning approval for a real estate project behind the Știrbei Palace on Calea Victoriei, which involved the construction of a building with a maximum height of 7 floors, which would house a shopping center and housing behind the historic landmark building, on the former palace gardens. Subsequently, this project caused a lot of controversy: both civil society and some architects called for the gardens to be rebuilt and said that the new buildings did not belong next to the palace.

Since 2015, the project remained in stand-by mode and was not approved by the General Council.

HotNews.ro has written dozens of articles about the real estate project that would disfigure the palace, and civil society has campaigned for years to preserve the historic monument.