Title:Residential building
Author:unknownDate:1906Abstract:The house is located in close proximity to the presentable city centre. The boulevard has mainly five or six storey condominiums and this is one of the four two-storey buildings left there. This house not only survived, but, quite remarkably, it was never overbuilt and altered. Only the ground floor has been adapted as a shop - the windows ...Library:
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Title:Double condominium
Author:unknownDate:unknownAbstract:This three storey condominium is located at the city center periphery in an area that is not very prestigious any more. It is composed of two identical houses with a party wall and relatively narrow street facades (two axes) and long side facades, each with an entrance. The building is rather plain, but it has various beautiful and original ...Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building of the Haimov brothers
Author:unknownDate:unknownAbstract:The building is located at the city center periphery, close to the Women's Market. It is composed to two identical parts. The axis of symmetry is a separate field that contains the entrance and is even emphasized with a different height. The building is embedded in the row house architecture of the street, but one of the side facades is ...Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building of Barouh Musholam
Author:unknownDate:1912Abstract:The condominium is located at the city center periphery. It was built as a row house and has one representative facade and one facing the yard. The volume consists of a ground floor, mezzanine, two residential floors and an attic. Recently, it was renovated and reconstructed, gaining an additional floor above the mansard, that is slightly ...Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building of Nisim Shimon
Author:unknownDate:unknownAbstract:The building is located on the corner of Ekzarh Yosif and George Washington streets, across the street from the Sofia Synagogue and near Maria Louisa boulevard - which means that it is in close proximity with the most remarkable Secession buildings in this city. Many of the houses in this neighborhood were built in the first two decades of ...Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building of Bohor Eschkenazy
Author:unknownDate:1912 - 1913Abstract:The building is located on a commercial street that crosses Maria Louisa Boulevard. It must have stood out initially, with its height and volume exceeding the surrounding two-storey houses. It was built on the street line, connected to the neighboring houses via party walls. It has a high ground floor, main volume of two stories and an attic.Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building
Author:unknownDate:unknownAbstract:The building is located on the corner of Tzar Simeon and Stefan Stambolov streets, where it is wider and part of the market. The Tzar Simeon street is also a commercial area. This is a market area in the city centre periphery where the houses from the turn of the 20th century were small and simple for lack of sufficient funds. From this ...Library:
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Title:Savoy Palace Hotel
Author:unknownDate:around 1929Abstract:This building shapes one of Lion's bridge plaza corners and its solid volume could be observed very well. It was built later and its architecture has rather few decorative elements. The features defining its appearance and spirit are the Arabian Nights style dome, the relief figures under it and the almost comical sculptures sitting on the ...Library:
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Title:Residential and commercial building of Olga Futikova
Author:unknownDate:1911Abstract:The building is located on the corner of Dondukov Blvd. and Benkovski St. It has a high ground floor with mezzanine used for commercial purposes and two residential floors.Library:
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Title:Family house of Kiril Botyov
Author:Georgi Fingov (architect); Kiril Marichkov (architect)Date:1905Abstract:The tree residential buildings that architects Fingov and Marichkov created in 1905 are among the brightest examples of the Secession stylistics in their work, and at the same time, they differ greatly from one another. This family house is the one with the most rational and simple design. The volume is almost cubical, the details - ...Library:
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Title:Vasil Aprilov School
Author:Georgi Fingov (architect); Dimo Nichev (architect); Nicola Yurukov (architect)Date:1912 - 1914Abstract:This is one of the 8 public schools that were designed as a result of a competition won by the architects Fingov, Nichev and Yurukov. The three of them visited different cities in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland in order to study the latest trends in school buildings. Each of the schoolhouses had an individual design, bound by the ...Library:
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Title:House of Dimitar Mamarchev
Author:Kiril Marichkov (architect)Date:1909Abstract:This was architect Kiril Marichkov's personal project. There is a certain schematic quality to the composition, compared to the houses that were designed in cooperation with architect Fingov. Currently, the house is pressed on two sides by 5-storey residential buildings. It could be best observed from the boulevard, but there is also a gable ...Library:
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Title:Family house of engineer Constantine Yosifov
Author:Yanaki Shamarjiev (architect)Date:1909Abstract:The family house is located on a small street going down to the Perlovska River, in a neighborhood that, at that time, consisted of separate family houses. The aesthetics of the building is entirely in the spirit of the Secession in its geometrical version.Library:
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Title:House of Vera Drenkova
Author:Georgi Fingov (architect); Kiril Marichkov (architect)Date:1905Abstract:This presentable family house was designed by the two architects after they finished the house of Funk and at the same time as the house of Brothers Ivanovi. It is remarkable how they were able to create a brand new and distinctive image with every new design, while remaining in the Secession orbit. Here they managed to achieve representativeness ...Library:
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Title:Family house of Doncho Palaveev
Author:Yordan Yordanov (architect); Sava Ovcharov (architect)Date:1922Abstract:This building was the family home of tobacco merchant Doncho Palaveev. It is currently being upgraded with one floor, additional volumes and an entrance, and is housing the British Council and two embassies. It was originally designed as an almost square building with a truncated pyramid roof, with additional volumes for a winter garden and ...Library:
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Title:Free University of Political Sciences and Economics
Author:Yordan Yordanov (architect); Sava Ovcharov (architect)Date:1924Abstract:This is a 4-storey terraced house is located on a vibrant central street. Its design is quite difficult to be determined stylistically. It has classical composition and certain elements of Neo-Classicism. It could be described as architecture that paved the way to Modernism, while stepping on the foundations of Secession and Art Deco and ...Library:
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Title:The house of Brothers Confino
Author:Georgi Fingov (architect); Dimo Nichev (architect); Nicola Yurukov (architect)Date:1910 - 1914Abstract:This used to be a vibrant shopping street in the heart of the city. The building was designed by the three architects that built the series of municipal schools. Sadly, typically for many Sofia city centre buildings, it was deprived of its mansard floor because of the WWII bombings.Library:
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Title:Konstantin Fotinov School (Grammar School No 3)
Author:Georgi Fingov (architect); Dimo Nichev (architect); Nicola Yurukov (architect)Date:1911Abstract:This is one of the 8 public schools that were designed as a result of a competition won by the architects Fingov, Nichev and Yurukov. The three of them visited different cities in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland in order to study the latest trends in school buildings. Each of the schoolhouses had an individual design, bound by the ...Library:
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Title:Odeon Palace Hotel
Author:Peter Kantardzhiev (architect)Date:1923Abstract:One of the most representative buildings in Sofa, with Art Deco stylistics. Numerous buildings in Sofia from that period are designed with flat surfaces, geometrical forms, vertical openings and flat relief, but they merely mark the way of rationalisation in architecture, rather than belonging to a certain style. This hotel is one of the ...Library:
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Title:Prague Credit Bank
Author:G. Fingov (architect); D. Nichev (architect); G. Apostolov (architect)Date:1928Abstract:After the impressive Bulgarian Commercial Bank, the architects built three more significant bank and insurance company buildings: the French-Bulgarian Bank in 1925, the Clerks' Cooperative Insurance Company in 1926 and the Bulgarian Phoenix Insurance Company in 1927. They chose Neo-Classical design for the first one and a more eclectic ...Library: