The Telephone Palace (Palatul Telefoanelor) is a historic office building on Victory Boulevard in Bucharest.
The building was designed in an Art Deco style by the architects Louis Weeks, Walter Froy, and Edmond Van Saanen Algi and was constructed between 1931 and 1933. It was the first modernist building on Calea Victoriei, and with a height of 52.5 meters, it was the tallest building in Bucharest until 1956, when it was surpassed by the House of the Free Press.
The building was inaugurated in 1934 in the presence of King Carol II and housed the headquarters of the Romanian Telephone Company Ltd (Societatea Anonimă Română de Telefoane). In 1940 and 1946, the building was extended both vertically and horizontally. The construction turned out to be strong as the building survived the earthquakes of 1940, 1977, 1986, and 1990.
When Romania became a Communist state after World War II, the building as well as the company SART were nationalized. After the 1989 revolution, the telephone provider was privatized again and became Romtelecom (now Orange).
