Arad Administrative Palace

The preliminary place of the city corridor turned into inside the Avram Iancu Square from the seventeenth century. Following the improvement of the city and the shift of the middle from Avram Iancu to the brand new areas, the metropolis council decided to construct some other one in the direction of the brand new center of the metropolis. They hired the Budapestan architect Odon Lechner, who got here up with a design. Due to economic problems, the undertaking became located impossible to construct. After that they hired every other architect, Ferenc Pekar who changed the blueprints, reducing out some of the elements. It was inaugurated in 1877.

Its tower is harking back to the Flemish city halls and the ornamentation attracts from the Flemish renaissance. The timepiece changed into delivered from Switzerland in the yr of the inauguration and it nonetheless is practical. The stained glass had been painted by way of the Aradean artist Sever Frentiu and they represented the seasons.