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CASA PRESEI LIBERE
HOUSE OF THE FREE PRESS
CNI Coresi
Piata Presei Libere nr. 1
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Casa Presei Libere (original name, before 1989, it was Casa Scânteii),a building in
northern Bucharest, is a copy of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Casa
Presei Libere held the record for the tallest structure in the city between 1956 and
2007. The building was originally conceived as Scânteia House Complex. The construction
of the building took 5 years (1952 - 1957), (between 1949 and 1954, the project
leader was prof. Panaite Mazilu) and was intended to be the headquarters of the
official media and especially of the "Scânteia" newspaper that reemerged as the official
voice of the Communist Party of Romania. The antenna on this building sustained
for a while, since 1956, the Romanian Television transmitter. After 1989, "Casa
Scânteii" became known as "Casa Presei Libere" The House of the Free Press. The
former Printing House "Casa Scanteii" was also transformed after 1989 into the
Autonomous Administration of Printing "Coresi". In February 1999, the Autonomous
Administration of Printing "Coresi" became The National Company of Printing Coresi.
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