Editing Cluj-Napoca (section)

===Modern and Communist architecture===
[[File:Teatrul Maghiar Cluj-Napoca.jpg|thumb|left|[[Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Theatre|Hungarian State Theatre and Opera]]]]
[[File:Blocks Cluj-Napoca.jpg|thumb|Blocks of flats in central Cluj-Napoca]]

Part of Cluj-Napoca's architecture is made up of buildings constructed during the [[Communist Romania|Communist era]], when historical architecture was replaced with "more efficient" high-density apartment blocks. Nicolae Ceaușescu's project of [[Systematization (Romania)|systematisation]] did not really affect the historical [[old town]], instead reaching the marginal, shoddily built districts surrounding it.<ref name="Ion Mincu"/>

Still, the centre hosts some examples of modern architecture dating back to the Communist era. The Hungarian Theatre building was erected at the beginning of the 20th century, but underwent an avant-garde renovation in 1961, when it acquired a [[modernist architecture|modernist style of architecture]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Detailed technical description |url=http://www.huntheater.ro/oldal.php?soid=9&mm=11&sl=7 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093329/http://www.huntheater.ro/oldal.php?soid=9&mm=11&sl=7 |archive-date=15 January 2009 |access-date=2008-03-12 |publisher=[[Hungarian Theatre of Cluj]]}}</ref> Another example of modernist architectural art is ''Palatul Telefoanelor'', situated in the vicinity of [[Michael the Brave|Mihai Viteazul]] Square, an area that also features a complex of large apartment buildings.

Some outer districts, especially [[Mănăștur]], and to a certain extent [[Gheorgheni, Cluj-Napoca|Gheorgheni]] and [[Grigorescu, Cluj-Napoca|Grigorescu]], consist mainly of such large apartment ensembles.<ref name="Ion Mincu"/>