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Bucharest’s architects of refusal

On a quiet stretch of the Bulevardul Magheru, between a phone shop and a shuttered cinema, a small painted disc the size of a saucer sits at eye level on an interwar façade. It is red, and it means what everyon…

Tobias Hager·8 min·Bucharest