TeleRadio-Moldova

The nine-storey building on Miorita Street, known as Casa Radio, was built in the 1970s to house the operational infrastructure of Teleradio-Moldova, the national broadcaster established in 1940. The complex consists of the main tower, clad in precast concrete panels with vertical rib lesenes accentuating its height, and a lower two-storey annex containing recording studios, editing rooms, offices, and archive spaces. Horizontal window bands alternate with white concrete panels across the tower facade, and the top floor, taller than the others, houses technical equipment. The ground floor is finished in black marble, the platform in red granite. The architects are not identified in the record. Two works of monumental art distinguished the building. At the main entrance, a stainless-steel bas-relief of convex forms representing radio waves was considered one of the most accomplished works of abstract sculpture in the city's architectural programme. It was removed during renovation in the 2000s and replaced with an alucobond logo. The annex facade retains a mosaic mural with three-dimensional stainless-steel elements repeating the wave motif, and this piece survives. The first television broadcast in Moldova was made in 1958 from an earlier studio complex on Hancești Road; the Miorita Street building represents the consolidation of broadcasting infrastructure into a single purpose-built facility a decade later.