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Laboratorium Coffee Shop / EktraArhitectura + Fain Design Studio

Nina Vuga — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Located in the heart of Cluj-Napoca, Laboratorium occupies the ground floor of Palatul Széki — one of four corner buildings constructed at the end of the 19th century to mark the threshold of the city center, and home to the former Matia Corvin Pharmacy.

ukyo X Café / Maria Schunn

Hana Abdel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

ukyo X transforms a historic Cluj-Napoca storefront into a hybrid café, listening bar, and cultural space. ukyo X, the third location of the ukyo brand, is situated in the old city center of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in a pedestrian area characterized by historical stratification and an active public life. The space positions itself as an active extension of the street, where passers-by become participants. Sliding glass doors allow the interior to open entirely, transforming the commercial front into a natural extension of the walkable district.

UNStudio Reveals River-Oriented Master Plan for Former Industrial Site in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Reyyan Dogan — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:30:00 +0000

A former industrial site along the Someș River in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is being transformed into a large-scale mixed-use district that reconnects the city with its waterfront. Designed by UNStudio in collaboration with Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners for developers IULIUS and Atterbury Europe, the RIVUS project combines urban regeneration, adaptive reuse, landscape design, and new public infrastructure within a single framework. Developed through a public participation process involving local residents, the proposal will transform the former Carbochim industrial platform into a river-oriented district organized around public space, mobility, and everyday urban activity.

Firefighters Tower / Vlad Sebastian Rusu + Octav Silviu Olanescu Architecture Office

Andreas Luco — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The tower, built in successive layers (15th Century, and 1870s), used for defense and then for watching the city, remains an urban observatory through the new age, a place of contemplation and reading of urban development. The new age is materialized through a discrete, integrated, and unitary intervention, which aims, by simple and reversible means, to obtain a consistent activation of the tower, while also providing a reading on the past and future city.

IG House / MoD studio

Andreas Luco — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000

The house is built on the footprint of an old building, which had to be reconstructed and expanded in order to accommodate the requests of the clients. Orientations and functionality had to be taken well into consideration, as the façade of the building is facing south, eastern sun was perfect for orienting the bedroom windows, and the view towards the neighboring plaza was facing south east. The family wanted to have a private common space, which was best positioned on the highest level, with a terrace on the corner of the building, perfectly facing the plaza. This solution was solved by shifting the main axis of the roof diagonally thus generating a very dynamic space for the top level of the house – the family room – where a gym, a living room and a play-room share the open floorplan. This diagonal roof also helped in creating very clean façade lines.

Community Pavilion / Vlad Sebastian Rusu + Studio 82

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:00:00 +0000

The multifunctional community pavilion is located inside the new Feroviarilor (Railway) Park, serving an important urban area of the city. Conceived as a space with multiple flexibility, the pavilion can host various community events such as meetings, exhibitions, concerts, workshops, etc.

Lutheran Mortuary Chapel / TEKTUM

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Situated in the Lutheran part of Házsongárd, a historical cemetery established in the 16^th Century, close to the medieval city center of Cluj, the small building has been commissioned by the church to function as its own mortuary chapel and to host the offices for the Házsongárdi Association, a small NGO focusing on the preservation of the cemetery’s-built heritage.

A Greenhouse Restaurant in Iceland and a Transparent City Hall in Israel: 9 Competition-Winning Projects Submitted by the ArchDaily Community

Maria-Cristina Florian — Sat, 27 May 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Architectural competitions play a crucial role in developing the architectural profession and in advancing the quality of the built environment. They are also an opportunity for architects to showcase their creativity and experiment with innovative or unexpected architectural solutions, be it for real or imagines contexts. This week's curated selection of Best Unbuilt Architecture highlights different competition-winning designs submitted by the ArchDaily Community.

The Story Behind a Medieval Tower Restored to Reflect the History of an Overlooked Neighborhood in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:30:00 +0000

The skyline of Cluj-Napoca, a city located in the Transylvania region of Romania, is defined by a mosaic of historical and modern buildings, giving the city a unique and diverse appearance. Among the visible landmarks, the Firefighters' Tower, or "Turnul Pompierilor" in Romanian, stands out for its mixture of styles, from Medieval stonework to Baroque detailing and contemporary interventions. Despite it being a relatively small monument, with a ground floor area of just under 50 square meters, the tower holds layers of history narrating the evolution of its neighborhood and city, from its beginnings during Medieval times until the present day. Left derelict in recent years, a new intervention by Vlad Sebastian Rusu B.I.A and Octav Silviu Olănescu B.I.A. aims to restore the tower's position as a repository of local history and an attractive space for residents and visitors alike. This article explores the story behind the Firefighters' Tower both narratively and visually, through the lens of Cosmin Dragomir.

Tektum Architecture Office Building / TEKTUM

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The wedge on the edge: the Tektum offices in Cluj. In the old town of Cluj, built on a section of the medieval city wall, there stood a house marked for demolition. It was this house Tektum Architecture bought to build its own offices. Archaeologists of the city preservation committee demanded that the architect revealed and exhibited as much of the city wall as possible, as the basement level of the wall consisted of Roman stone blocks built in 2000 years ago.

Lunet Flagship Store / Bogdan Ciocodeică Studio

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Lunet Flagship Store is the second space opened by the eponymous eye ware brand, a continuation of their aesthetic ethos and unconventional approach towards the entire experience of buying eyeglasses. The idea was to borrow a few of the key elements from the first store in such a manner, that it feels like you have stepped into the Lunet universe, but at the same time creating a unique and specially designed space, adapted to the new context.

Dermavision Clinic / Vlad Sebastian Rusu

Valeria Silva — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The site's location is on the outer strip of the city's intra muros area of Cluj, an area best described as an architectural mélange of small historical houses with gardens and new and more expansive hotel and educational complexes. The new medical center occupies a small corner plot, between two streets with different hierarchies, and is replacing an existing ground floor house. At its eastern limit, hidden behind the gardens and houses, waves the course of the Water Mill’s Canal, designed since the 16th century to supply the water mills in the city. Unfortunately, on our plot it was covered to facilitate the extension of the annexes of the initially existing house, thus becoming invisible to passers-by on the secondary street.

Doja 36 House / TECON Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:00:00 +0000

The project of the house was born after a laborious and methodical approach, in which the clients organized a competition with 7 architectural offices, less characteristic for an investment of such level. After choosing the company with which they will collaborate, the design process continued with many variants and discussions, which crystallized, on the one hand, their wishes - a home with a distinct image but without displaying it ostentatiously, with spaces that totalized to a relatively big area for the existing land, but with the preservation of a generous courtyard area, and, on the other hand, ranking the elements of the context that will shape the volume and space. The slope of the land - about 4 m height, the 2 blind walls present on the limits of property, the perspective over the city, the cardinal orientation, all this led to a volume with the appearance of a bridge, under which the court can flow freely, generating different outdoor spaces, individually related to the inner functions.

The Office Cluj / Andreescu & Gaivoronschi

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The Office Cluj, an office building ensemble recently finalized, has begun as an urban regeneration project for the brownfield plot left by the old textile industry, in the vicinity of Cluj-Napoca’s historic centre. As in most communist cities, this area became part of the industrial framework of Cluj-Napoca, which even now includes some leftover industries and factories. To the north of the site, there still exists an old water channel, a small ramification of the Someș river while to the south there is the main boulevard and the main connection to the historic city centre, to the west.

Call for entries: Revitalization and activation, Feroviar Park Cluj-Napoca

Rene Submissions — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

The aim of this competition is to make it possible to identify and implement an integrated urban remodelling concept that meets the complex needs of an area of significant size for the efficient functioning of the city of Cluj-Napoca.

The purpose of the competition is to provide the public administration with the most efficient solution of sustainable urban development of the Feroviarilor Park area. The reintroduction of Feroviarilor Park into the patrimony of public green spaces of Cluj-Napoca city is regarded as a significant victory for the entire community and at the same time as a huge opportunity to rehabilitate

Multifunctional Sports Hall / Dico si Tiganas

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Cluj - Napoca is a city of young people with 25% of its population studying in universities. Student life means also sports and the tradition is consistent. The new Multifunctional Sports Hall is the newest piece of public infrastructure for training, championships and cultural events, in a building conceived to be part of an ensemble together with Cluj Arena, the soccer and athletics stadium also designed by Dico and Tiganas and opened in 2011. Both objectives have generated new public spaces relating the Central Garden of the City with the river Somes banks promenades, towards a Sports park and another public garden in a sequence of public spaces of almost 2 kilometers.

Cluj National Library Extension / manadelucru

Hank Jarz — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:00:35 +0000

Architectural firm manadelucru has shared with us their recent proposal for the Cluj National Library Extension, located in Cluj Romania. Images and text after the break.