When was Ciurel Radio Tower built and who designed it? Latter question is of special interest as its lattice structure is not similiar to radio towers in Romania, former Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, but to radio towers in UK and Belgium!

For comparision:

Froidmont Radio Tower, Belgium: http://img441.imageshack.us/i/dsc0003au.jpg/
Crystal Palace Transmitter London: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Cp_mast.jpg/450px-Cp_mast.jpg
Ciurel Communications Tower: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23391491

Compare the lattice structures of all three objects!

I don't know who designed it, but people in any domain of activity in Romania preferred western sources to Soviet ones, due both to quality and originality, and an inherent hate of the Soviet Union (sometimes only the latter). The railways preferred Swiss and Swedish models, the auto industry preferred Renault to the Fiats chosen by others in the East Block, engineers preferred documentation visits and experience exchanges with West Germany, Italy, France, the USA, even Iran when the US and British backed Shah was still in power, so I find it as no surprise that the TV-tower has a west block design.

And its not the only one here, the others I saw here, looks similar.

I don't know who designed it, but people in any domain of activity in Romania preferred western sources to Soviet ones, due both to quality and originality, and an inherent hate of the Soviet Union (sometimes only the latter). The railways preferred Swiss and Swedish models, the auto industry preferred Renault to the Fiats chosen by others in the East Block, engineers preferred documentation visits and experience exchanges with West Germany, Italy, France, the USA, even Iran when the US and British backed Shah was still in power, so I find it as no surprise that the TV-tower has a west block design.
Let's not forget our nuclear power plant, made by Canadians, not Russians.

^^ And many other examples :cheers:

We would have exited the Warsaw Pact and joined Yugoslavia in a neutral nations block had it not been for our border with the Soviet Union and unofficial interests regarding the, back then, Moldovan SSR.

I 'like' how you keep talking about it, but no one's posted an actual picture of it. As they say in the internet world, "pics or it didn't happen" :P

Didn't you follow the links?

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/23391491.jpg

When was Ciurel Radio Tower built and who designed it?
Don't know about the year, but the designer is Telerom Proiect SA. Quoting their website (http://www.telerom.ro/en/structuri.php):

Metallic tower of 200 m for Ministry of Internal Affairs – Ciurel area

Some pics:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6199/11bq.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1893/86364850.jpg

A panorama using NORC service can be seen here (http://www.norc.ro/pano/x6e3IMrJ/). To enter full screen, press the small arrow in the right upper corner of the window featuring the tower, and then use the mouse to rotate it and the scroll for zooming.

Daca nu ma insel, acolo e sediul STS, banuiesc ca e si antena lor...

Well, at least now I have a target for disrupting their operations. :lol:

Thanks for the pics, but, OMG people...RESIZE :lol:

pacepa a facut antena....... era sau ma rog este inca centru CIFRULUI romanesc...am citit in una din cartile lui pacepa