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Telephones Company Building

Telephones Company Building is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Telephones Company Building rather than just read about it. In short: Telephones Company Building (Romanian: Palatul Telefoanelor) is an Art Deco office building located on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania. It is now owned by Telekom România.

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Reference excerpt

Telephones Company Building (Romanian: Palatul Telefoanelor) is an Art Deco office building located on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania. It is now owned by Telekom România.

Bucharest

Palatul Telefoanelor in Bucharest is an Art Deco style building and until 1956, was the tallest building in Bucharest at 52.5 metres (172 feet). The worldwide Great Depression that began with the Wall Street crash of 1929 also affected Romania, strongly impacting the Romanian economy. The Romanian government decided to take a loan from the American trust, J.P. Morgan & Co., which obtained from this transaction the granting of a 20-year monopoly on Romanian telephony to the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT), which then formed the Societatea Anonimă Română de Telefoane (SART, "Romanian Telephone Company, Ltd."). The aim was to modernize Romanian telephony and to construct the Telephone Palace. Designed on behalf of SART by the Romanian architect of Dutch origin Edmond Van Saanen Algi and built over the course of about 20 months in 1931–1933, it was the first major modernist building on Bucharest's Calea Victoriei, the street of which Tudor Octavian wrote, "this is how the whole of Bucharest would look if we had been allowed..., if its builders had been clever enough..." It was constructed on the former site of the Oteteleșanu Mansion, which had been, since the turn of the century, home to a terrace bar (Terasa Oteteleșanu), a coffee house and a beer saloon, competing with Casa Capșa for the custom of Bucharest's elite from its location next to the old Romanian National Theatre. The steel skeleton was produced by the Reșița steelworks. The building was inaugurated in 1934 in the presence of King Carol II. The building was extended (both vertically and horizontally) in 1940 and 1946, and survived earthquakes in 1940, 1977, 1986, and 1990, as well as bombing in 1944 by Allied Forces during World War II. With the advent of the Communist era, the building passed into the hands of the Romanian government, along with SART itself, which was nationalized as a division of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The 1989 Revolution resulted in the establishment of the independent ROM-POST-TELECOM, reorganized as Romtelecom in July 1991. A 1993 study revealed structural problems (the roof was never designed to support microwave antennas, but only a coffee shop); before a major reconstruction project could be started in 1997, engineers had to begin by redrawing building plans, as the originals had been lost. Work included reconstruction to duplicate the original façade, as well as structural reinforcement. The reconstruction design was made by Romanian architecture office Proiect Bucuresti. The whole project, which ultimately employed 700 people, cost roughly €1 million and lasted until 2005.

Notes

References Adrian Nuta, Dupa zece ani de renovare, Palatul Telefoanelor are o noua faţa ("After then years of renovation, the Telephone Palace has a new face"), Averea, 13 May 2005, accessed 2 January 2006. Celac, Mariana; Carabela, Octavian; Marcu-Lapadat, Marius (2017). Bucharest Architecture – an annotated guide. Order of Architects of Romania. ISBN 978-973-0-23884-6. Kaufmann, Birgit, Earthquake Exposure In Romania, Exposure, issue No. 5, February 2001, accessed 2 January 2006. Consolidarea Palatului Telefoanelor, Rotary Construcții, 2004, accessed 2 January 2006. The Telephone Palace in Bucharest, "Advertorial" on the site of Romtelecom, accessed 2 January 2006. —, Bucureștiul Interbelic/Calea Victoriei/Interbellum Bucharest, NOI Media Print, ISBN 973-99493-7-1 List of Names and Places Explained: The Telephone Palace, in Bucharest Between the Wars: A Modernity With Fringes, Romanian Academy Library, accessed 4 January 2006. Dinu Anghel, Cum se distrau românii vara, acum un veac "How Romanians spent summer a century ago", reprinted from Bucătăria pentru toți, accessed 4 January 2006.

External links Calea Victoriei between Casa Capșa and Palatul Telefoanelor, 1935, photo. Photo of Palatul Telefoanelor after reconstruction.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Telephones Company Building

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Telephones Company Building claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Telephones Company Building before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Telephones Company Building ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Telephones Company Building

In research: Telephones Company Building appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Telephones Company Building in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Telephones Company Building is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1934 establishments in Romania, Art Deco architecture in Romania, Buildings and structures completed in 1934, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Telephones Company Building outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Telephones Company Building in simple terms?

Telephones Company Building (Romanian: Palatul Telefoanelor) is an Art Deco office building located on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania. It is now owned by Telekom România.

Why does Telephones Company Building matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Telephones Company Building?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Telephones Company Building.