Emil Prager, the engineer who raised the modern Bucharest. The shining builder became a tenant in his house, built by him
PHOTO Credit: Buildings of Romania / Costa-Foru family collection
The construction engineer Emil Prager was born on August 19, 1888, the year in which the Romanian Athenaeum was inaugurated, and left us in 1985, when the old Bucharest was demolished by the bulldozers of the communist regime, to make room for the People's House, “the great foundation of the Golden Age”.
Exceptional personality, meticulous, deeply dedicated to his profession, engineer Emil Prager worked until the age of 90.
During the interwar period, the enterprise “Eng. Emil Prager” built monumental buildings, erected in Bucharest or in the country, but also industrial works, thermal power plants, railways, modern roads, roads, churches, palaces
He left the capital of emblematic building, from the Union Hotel, the headquarters of the Banloc-Goodrich company on Calea Victoriei or the building where today is the headquarters.
Read, on B365.ro, who was “opaPa” for the granddaughter of the brilliant builder, in an interview with Ioana Nicolau Costa-Foru, for whom she was simply grandfather.
