Romanita Collective Housing Tower, Chișinău

£45.00

Romanita Collective Housing Tower, Chișinău

A Brutalist curiosity, finely detailed in concrete by Spaceplay.

Romanita Collective Housing Tower, Chișinău

Name: Romanita Collective Housing Tower, Chișinău
Brand: Spaceplay
SKU: MINI_087
Price: 45.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£45.00

Solid Cast-Concrete Miniature Model
Size: 9.5cm long, 3cm high, 5.5cm deep
Scale: 1:1500 (approx)

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Bring Chisinau home with a concrete model you can hold. Whether you've admired it from close up or afar, celebrate its singular shape.

Made to order and shipped within 30 days

Designed and made in my UK studio

Comes gift-boxed for the perfect concrete gift

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Building Information

Location: Chișinău, Moldova
Architect: Oleg Vronski
Completed: 1986
Status: Residential, still in use

Brief Overview:
Romanita was conceived during the Soviet period as a collective housing building, with compact apartments arranged around a cylindrical core. Its distinctive circular balconies create the stacked, almost floral profile that gave the tower its name, derived from the Romanian word for chamomile. Built during the final years of the Soviet Union, it has since become one of Moldova's best-known examples of late modernist architecture and an enduring landmark on the Chișinău skyline.

Making my concrete model

Romanita Collective Housing Tower, Chișinău

Some buildings look like flowers, and this one was named after one. The Romanita miniature concrete model captures Oleg Vronski's 1986 housing tower in Chișinău, Moldova. Its rounded balconies stack around a cylindrical core in a floral profile, and the tower takes its name from the Romanian word for chamomile. Built in the last years of the Soviet Union, it's one of the best-known pieces of late Soviet modernism and a landmark on the city's skyline. This concrete model of the Romanita tower keeps those stacked petals at 9cm, a piece of concrete art for a desk, shelf or windowsill. It's made for Moldovans at home and abroad, fans of Soviet and Brutalist architecture, and anyone who loves an unusual building. It's a rare and thoughtful gift. Each miniature concrete building is hand-cast in solid concrete.