Constantin Stere University of European Political and Economic Studies (former House of Technology)

The USPEE complex on Chișinău's main boulevard was originally built as a Technology Hall or House of Technology, a functional, deliberately undemonstrative building clerks, engineers, researchers and lecturers. The complex comprises two volumes facing the boulevard: a main block-like building and a smaller secondary edifice connected by a glazed gallery housing the central entrance. Aluminium profiles cover the full surface of the main facade, functioning simultaneously as brise-soleil and as an organising aesthetic system, producing a grid of repetitive elements in place of ornament. The smaller, brutalist concrete conference block on the left gives the ensemble its strongest formal identity. The entrance gallery connects the two volumes, part glazed, part screened with concrete brise-soleil elements of the same family as those used on the nearby House of the Press (Shoikhet and Vaysbein). The conference block's raw concrete massing and the aggressive angle of its roofline place it in direct dialogue with the more brutalist strand of Chișinău's architecture, such as the County Government Office (former Buiucani District Council and originally the Frunze Raion Committee), where the block is handled with similar confidence, as well as the severe auditorium modules of the Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University. The main block belongs to a broader typological family visible across the city's institutional fabric: the curtain-walled or brise-soleil-screened horizontal slab, deployed for universities, ministries and research institutes throughout the 1960s and 1970s.