Cristian Gavrilescu-Architect of tall buildings Born in Bucovina on the 29 th April 1968 in the city Vatra Dornei, district of Suceava, the architect Cristian Gavrilescu is one of the few Romanian architects that established himself as a household name across the ocean, in the United States of America and in the Middle East. He graduated in 1994 the College of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, and in 1998 the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”. He has a master degree in architecture from the New York University, U.S.A., in 2001- He worked between 1999 and 2003 for Urban Achitects, New York, collaborating with some of the most famous architects world wide like Charles Gwathmey and I.M. Pei –For four years, starting with 2005, he worked in London in the
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Cristian Gavrilescu-Architect of tall buildings
Born in Bucovina on the 29th April 1968 in the city Vatra Dornei, district of Suceava, the architect Cristian Gavrilescu is one of the few Romanian architects that established himself as a household name across the ocean, in the United States of America and in the Middle East.
He graduated in 1994 the College of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, and in 1998 the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”. He has a master degree in architecture from the New York University, U.S.A., in 2001- He worked between 1999 and 2003 for Urban Achitects, New York, collaborating with some of the most famous architects world wide like Charles Gwathmey and I.M. Pei –For four years, starting with 2005, he worked in London in the architectural company KPF (www.gdarcht.com) with which he runs projects in the USA and in Romania, both countries in which he is licensed as an architect. He lives in New York, USA.
As architect of tall buildings he projected countless towers in the Arab countries but also in Europe.
Palm Tower
As after September 11 2001 the American companies became reluctant to work again with the Arab countries; Gavrilescu took all the projects which architect Pei had in the Middle East, where was also included the Palm Tower building in Dubai, building of over 1000 meters height, which should had been finalized in 2012.
Cristian Gavrilescu was the design project coordinator of the Palm Tower- a building which will overcome with 200 meters the tallest building in the world at the present , Burj Dubai.
The Romanian worked at projecting the giant in the same team with famous specialists: architect Leslie Robertson, the one who draw World Trade Center from New York or I.M. Pei, ”father” of the pyramid from Louvres.
In Dubai he also worked on projecting two towers with 50 floors, in Kuweit at one tower of 70 storeys, but in the last years he has dedicated himself to some projects in Romania, like the
Synevo Medical Center and the Pipera Office Tower from Bucharest, the Shopping Center in Baia Mara and others.
Burjuman, a multifunctional complex with a mall, offices and residences (down foto-interior mall), at which Cristian Gavrilescu was the project manager for KPF International.
Gavrilescu never forgot to mention that the Romanian architecture school ”is a very good school”. ”I recommend it to all the ones who want to become architects, we learn to draw by hand, abroad this is lost, they draw only with the computer”.
“I’m born in Bucovina and I’ve always been excited of our popular houses. The Village Museum should be for us the showroom from which we chose our models. But is not like this. It makes me sad to see what was built in Romania in the past years. I don’t understand how the Norse (but also the Latins and the Asians) have managed, not only to keep, but also to inspire themselves from their past and to use traditional language elements in the modern context, and we do not. The good part is that more and more voices are starting to appear and signal this phenomenon and that in some places, here and there, are constructed quality homes.” -stated Cristian Gavrilescu in an interview provided for the newspaper Adevarul.
For the contribution at the analyze of tall buildings behavior at external factors and contributions at optimal design in seismic areas, the architect Cristian Gavrilescu was awarded in 2010 the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa" of the “Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava.
