In 1934, when the Palace of Telephones was inaugurated, the people of Bucharest were stunned. On April 23, on the site of the old Terase Otetelașanu – very popular at that time for balls, revue theater, sushi and mititei – the first skyscraper in the country was inaugurated in the presence of King Karol II.

There has never been a building that resembles the skyscrapers of New York. The visual shock was worth the achievement. Compared to the Palace, which symbolized absolute progress, communication and modernism, the noble houses on Calea Victoria looked like “shacks made of boards”.

Edmond Van Saanen Algi, a Bucharest architect who is very, very unfairly forgotten today, here in a new episode of “Make Bucharest Great Again”, B365.ro’s project dedicated to saving the heritage of the city of Bucharest.

open up on B365.rodocumentary images of the Telephone Palace and its “Broadway shadow” cast on Calea Victoriei