- Yablanski House
The Yablanski House ( _bg. къща на Яблански, "kashta na Yablanski") is a Neo-Baroque house in
Sofia , the capital ofBulgaria , situated at 18Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard in the city centre and regarded as one of the highest achievements of the city's architecture in the first decade of the 20th century.cite web |url=http://www.sofia.bg/history.asp?lines=1813&nxt=1&update=all |title=Софийската елитна къща (1878-1920) |accessdate=2008-08-20 |language=Bulgarian |publisher=Столична община] Although the building was proclaimed a monument of culture in 1955, [cite news |url=http://paper.standartnews.com/bg/article.php?d=2006-09-22&article=161391 |title=Пожари разчистват бизнеса на Кирчеви |language=Bulgarian |publisher=Стандарт |date=2006-09-22 |accessdate=2008-08-20 ] as of 2008 it is uninhabited and in a bad condition due to mismanagement. [cite news |url=http://news.netinfo.bg/?tid=40&oid=1135825 |title=Тревога за къщата на Яблански на "Царя" |language=Bulgarian |publisher=Нетинфо |date=2007-12-11 |accessdate=2008-08-20 ]The Yablanski House was built in 1906-1907 to the designs of Austro-Hungarian architect
Friedrich Grünanger (1856-1929) on the order of the wealthyfinancier and former mayor of SofiaDimitar Yablanski (1859-1924). [cite book |last=Кираджиев |first=Светлин |title=София 125 години столица 1879-2004 летопис |year=2006 |publisher=ИК Гутенберг |location=София |language=Bulgarian |id=ISBN 954-617-011-9 |page=p. 78 ] The exterior decoration was the work of the royal decorator of theBulgarian Royal Family ,Andreas Greis . Architecturally, the house was designed in the Baroque style with some Renaissance elements, with the interiorstucco done in theRococo style. Themansard floor is an important feature of the house's artistic design, together with thebalcony railings ofwrought iron and the several female sculptures. The furniture and the materials were specially supplied fromVienna . [cite book |title=Енциклопедия на изобразителните изкуства в България, том 1 |publisher=Издателство на БАН |location=София |year=1980 |language=Bulgarian ] The house's architecture draws heavily from an earlier work of Grünanger's, the Royal Palace in Sofia. Notably, the architect's home inSalzburg , where he later moved and subsequently died, is almost identical to the Yablanski House.After the
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 and the establishment of aCommunist government, the house was nationalized and used as theembassy of thePeople's Republic of China until 1991. After 1991, it was given back to the heirs of Yablanski who proceeded to sell it toFirst Private Bank . In 1996, the bank wentbankrupt and the Yablanski House changed numerous owners. In the early 2000s, it was owned by Draft EOOD, who intended to build at 46-metre building at its place, a project halted by theCapital Municipal Council .In 2006, the Yablanski House was included in the list of collapsing buildings; [cite news |url=http://www.temanews.com/index.php?p=tema&iid=215&aid=5389 |title=Хипотетично или ипотетично |last=Ценова |first=Искра |language=Bulgarian |publisher=ТЕМА |accessdate=2008-08-20 ] despite the efforts of the Capital Municipal Council, its owners have not undertaken its restoration.
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Dobrevski House
*Sarmadzhiev House References
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