PROJECT

THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH

ELEV HORCIU STEFAN IULIAN
THE ARC DE TRIUMF OF BUCHAREST

 The Arc de Triumf is a monument located in the northern part of Bucharest, in sector 1, at the intersection of
Kiseleff road with Constantin Prezan, Alexandru Averescu and Alexandru Constantinescu boulevards. The
monument, designed by Petre Antonescu, was built in the period 1921-1922, renovated in the period 1935-
1936, and renovated again starting in 2014. It commemorates Romania's participation in the First World
War.

 The Arc de Triomphe is 27 m high, with a single opening and is parallelepipedal . The models were executed
by plastic artists, and for the carving of the Ruschița marble, in addition to local sculptors, a number of ten
sculptors from Italy were also called upon.
HISTORY

 Together with the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia, the

Mausoleum in Mărășești, the Cross of Heroes of the Nation on
Mount Caraiman, and the Tomb of the Unknown Hero in Carol I
Park, the Arc de Triomphe is among the monuments that
commemorate Romania's participation in the First World War on
the The Allies, at the end of which almost all the territories
inhabited by Romanians found themselves reunited for the first
time. The Arc de Triomphe is not the first monument of this kind
erected in the capital of Romania, it being preceded by several
temporary constructions with similar meanings, which
successively marked Romania's victory in the war of
independence (1878), the jubilee of the 40-year reign of of King
Carol I (1906) and the return of the Romanian royal family from
exile in Iași (1918).
 HISTORY

 Other triumphal arches were erected in Bucharest, with temporary existence, in

1848, 1859, 1878, 1906 and 1918, but after the First World War, the decision was
made to build a permanent monument.[5] In 1922, during the term of office of the
mayor of Bucharest Matei Gh. Corbescu (February 1922 - December 1922), a
parade was organized in Bucharest in honor of the Great Union. Since the Arc de
Triumf from 1918 had been built from a material that could not withstand the
rains, the mayor Matei Gh. Corbescu came up with the proposal that it be erected
as a new Arc de Triumf, made of wood, until money is found for an imposing
one. He was criticized for his initiative, and George Enescu wrote to the mayor:
"But the real Arc de Triumf, when?" Therefore, in 1922, in the context of the
coronation of King Ferdinand I and Queen Maria as sovereigns of Greater
Romania , the commission for organizing the coronation celebrations called on
the services of the architect Petre Antonescu to erect an imposing Arc de Triumf
in the northern area of ​the capital, on Kiseleff road. Due to the short time,
however, only the skeleton of the construction was cast in reinforced concrete,
the wonderful exterior bas-reliefs being made of plaster, which determined - once
the coronation celebrations were over (on October 16, 1922, when a show was
organized, evoking the struggle of the Romanian people for state unit, with
representatives from more than 20 European states, the United States of America
and Japan participating in the festivities, which meant a wide international
recognition of the new national state reality) – a progressive degradation, caused
by the weather, of the aspect exterior of the Arc de Triomphe, it becoming at the
beginning of the 1930s an "uncomfortable monument" for the image of the
interwar "Little Paris".
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RENOVATION
According to a technical expertise, as early as 1980 serious degradations of
the construction were recorded which required the execution of capital
repair works. The structural degradation refers to the maceration of some
masonry areas, due to excessive humidity caused by water infiltrations and
favored by the total lack of ventilation, as well as to the cracking of stair
ramps and some masonry, consequences of the earthquakes of 1940 and
1977.

Between January 2014 and November 28, 2016, consolidation and

renovation works were carried out on the triumphal arch.[19] On this
occasion, the two texts of King Ferdinand's proclamations to the country, on
the occasion of Romania's entry into the war of integration and on the
occasion of the coronation in Alba Iulia in 1922, were reproduced on the
sides.
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