The Administrative Palace of Vaslui (Palatul Administrativ Vaslui) is a government building on Civic Square in central Vaslui, designed by architect Nicolae Vericeanu and completed in 1971. It was created after Vaslui became the seat of the re-established Vaslui County in 1968, when part of the old center was rebuilt to provide the new county administration with a purpose-designed civic center.
The palace was originally conceived as the county’s political-administrative headquarters and became the dominant building of the new square. Its construction formed part of the wider redevelopment planned for central Vaslui by architect Nicolae Munteanu, which also introduced new cultural, commercial and accommodation buildings around the center. The palace continues to fulfill its administrative role and today houses the Vaslui County Council and the Prefect’s Institution.
Vericeanu combined the large scale and simple surfaces of postwar modernist architecture with elements intended to recall older Romanian civic buildings. Contemporary descriptions specifically pointed to the covered gallery, or cerdac, and the clock tower, which rises above the long horizontal body of the palace and gives the building its most recognizable feature. The representative interior was also decorated as part of the original scheme: in 1971, artist Traian Nicola created a 23-square-meter ceramic mosaic titled “Pe drumul socialismului” (On the Path of Socialism) for the political-administrative palace.
