The Parliament's building of the Republic of Moldova

The construction of the current Parliament’s building of the Republic of Moldova
(former building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova), located in a neighborhood
of the historic center of Chişinău bordered with the Maria Cebotari street, August 31, 1989
street, Sfatul Ţării street and Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt boulevard, was made in 1972–1976. The authors
of the project are the architects Aleksander Cherdantsev and Gregory Bosenco. The building consists
of two adjacent blocks: the first, in nine levels, which according to plan is a linear segment slightly broken
in two places in the central part, and the second, is in five levels, with trapezoidal plan. From the
façade, the higher volume is reminiscent of an open book. Stylistically, the edifice integrates into the
orientations of socialist modernism, but with a transition to postmodernism.
The article examines some aspects related to the construction of the current building of the Parliament
of the Republic of Moldova, the location of the Freedom Monument, the design of a multi-storey
building in the immediate vicinity of the Parliament etc.