File under 'we'll believe it when we see it'
The Dambovita Center (above) will – if it ever gets built – be the most impressive real estate development ever to go up in Bucharest. The usual mix of hotel, shopping centre, offices, apartments and, ahem, big wheel, if the end product looks half as good as the artist’s impressions, then it will be a massive boost to Bucharest’s skyline, prestige and just about everything else. (Not that that will stop some protesters: according to this morning’s Jurnalul National, some are not happy. The president of an organisation we’ve never heard of until now, Salvati Bucuresti, thinks the new project will increase traffic, while others are worried about trees, others about flooding… Let’s just leave it as it is shall well? It’s lovely…).
Anyway, there’s something far more troubling about that artist’s impression. Not only do the trees look suspiciously neat and tidy, and the Dambovita strangely blue, but the city in the background looks nothing like Bucharest.
Unless of course the developer is planning on rebuilding the entire city?
I do think we should be told.
