The two projects will be handled by a multidisciplinary team of Foster+Partners, led by architects Maximilian and Daniel Zielinski.
These are Foster+Partners’ first projects in Romania.
The partnership will take urban regeneration and reconversion in Romania to the next level, providing functional and sustainable architectural solutions, adapted to the current needs of communities and harmoniously integrated into the urban fabric and considerably improving people’s quality of life.
“All our activity in the last 25 years gravitates around projects that turn cities into better spaces for communities. The projects started with Foster+Partners are two of the most complex we’ve done so far. In Iasi, we’re improving an existing complex in a historically significant location where respect for the surrounding heritage buildings is essential. In Constanta, we’re probably talking about one of the largest decontamination projects in Europe and the opportunity to give an identity to an isolated and contaminated area (…),” said Iulian Dascalu, Iulius chairman.
Iulius has invested about half a billion euros in Iasi so far and plans to continue investment in the city and its first priority is Palas Iasi, which changed the central area of the city.
In Constanta, it has an urban renewal project on a 38-hectare plot of Oil Terminal, which has been inactive for 10 years in an industrial area that will be added to the city as a multifunction area designed with the needs of the community in mind. Iulius will invest more than EUR800 million in this project. The big challenge in this case is the bioremediation of the land affected by the previous use, i.e., oil product storage, conducted until ten years ago.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)