With the end of the soviet occupation, during the 50s and early 60s an interesting resistance through architecture movement started on the romanian Black Sea coast, where architects opposed the imposed socialist and stalinist architecture and designed a large number of mid-century modern style buildings, neadless to say that most of them are now long gone or in ruins.
A small shopping center was built during the late 50s in the new district of Tomis II in the port city of Constanza. It had a one story wing with shops, a covered prommenade and a water fountain, and a two story wing with a post office and a highschool.
Soon after it was finished the central communist authorities deemed it too american and the window decorations were torn down, while over the commercial wing an ugly generic socialist style apartment building was built.
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