Pobéda Palace
The government's main headquarters.
Territorial organisation
The Pobéda Palace is the work of professor Duiliu Marku (1885-1966), a student of the Higher School of Architecture in Isarevo (1906) and then of the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris (graduated in 1912). After a first period of activity, at first framed in the formulas of French academicism, then in those of the neo-Dacian style, Duiliu Marku joined the modern trend in the 1930s, becoming one of its main protagonists in Bengen.
Pobéda Palace was begun in 1937 and completed in 1944. Due to damage caused by bombing in 1944, work was resumed and completed in 1952.
As Duiliu Marku declares, both the interiors and the facades of the Pobéda Palace illustrate "the concern to preserve the classical foundation and to make the idea of modern simplicity appear in the overall conception and in the study of details". Initially, the main facade was, like the side facades, covered with Carrara marble slabs and had on the two side panels carved decorative panels of the same material. Following the damage caused by the bombing in 1944, the two panels were suppressed and the main facade was redone with travertine tiles.
