During mid 30-s to early '40 there was a huge thing for building new shopping centers (i guess that we can call them malls) to replace old markets. From 1936 to 1945 there were ~30 build all across the country. Sadly most of them were demolished in communism and the surviving ones were heavily modified, ruining the architecture.... Here are some pictures from 1936 at the opening of Central Halls of Ploiesti
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^^Finished in 1934, at 52,5 m it was the highest building in Bucharest untill the 70s. It was built after the plans of dutch architect Edmond Algi. To build this and another 4 smaller phone exchanges the romanian government took a loan from the US trust American Morgan and created a joint venture with International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. The new company was SART - Romanian Telephone Company Inc.
At the top floor was a nice restaurant, sadly i couldn't find any pics of it.
^^ arch. Edmond van Saanen Algi, Louis Weeks & Walter Froy
1937, CREMIN Corporation HQ, Bucharest, Romania. CREMIN was a romanian corporation activating in the oil, gas and mining (mostly gold) sectors.
It had offices in Munich, Paris and Wien and a large chain of gas station in Romania, Germany, France and Austria. Here is a romanian CREMIN gas station in Tirol, Austria