Subiect: „The facade of the National Bank building on the Lipscani Street from
Bucharest consists mostly of lithic components. Exposed to the external
environment of a polluted town, especially in the last about 70 years, the
lithic components suffered multiple degradations, with different intensities,
which required urgent action to stop the phenomenon and eliminate, where
possible, the undesirable effects of decay. First, the authors conducted a
petrographic study to identify the lithic components and to establish the
degradation processes, the effects and their intensities. The second phase
was the development of the intervention project on the building facade,
of the reports resulted in maps of degradation and restoration stages,
under which, in the third stage, works of conservation - restoration were
executed. The basis of this article consists of the results of the first two
stages and the description of the restoration of lithic components of the
National Bank building, made deliberately in a certain sequence.”
