Pedestrians can cross the streets only by University Passage , constructed in the socialist period during the development of M2 metro thoroughfare and leading , as well , to a metro station . The space that now extends from the InterContinental hotel and National Theatre once was home to an outdoor circus , around which existed shops with '' mititei '' ( small Romanian sausages ) and beer , and a stum shop ( ? ) named '' Zori de zi '' . All this disappeared after urban planning in the 1960s proposed the idea of developing the area through tourism , cultural or administrative functions . Between 1968 and 1970 the Hotel InterContinental ( architects Dinu Hariton , Gheorghe Nădrag , Ion Moscu and Romeo Belea ) was built , and the new National Theatre was constructed between 1964 – 1973 in the style of that period , the halls being equipped with top stage installations . Damaged during the 1977 earthquake , the theater was rebuilt 1982 – 1984 , under the aegis of Cezar Lăzărescu , in a heavy form and lacking spectacular elements . Since the end of 2014 , after a project costing up to 65 million euros , the National Theatre has a new face , dominated by futuristic elements
1977 earthquake
1977 Vrancea earthquake
University Square, Bucharest