Calvinist Commercial Girls' School, Brassó

Kós’s competition entry for the commercial school organised the building on three levels, using a strictly rectangular ground plan oriented perpendicular to the street. The character of the design was defined by the interaction of cubic volumes along the street frontage.

The hierarchy of terraces is arranged around the organising element of the corner tower: the lowest terrace, on the first floor, functions as a covered loggia leading to the main entrance located at the base of the tower. While the side façades are articulated simply by windows and terminated by a widely projecting eave—which counterbalances the low position of the roof—the main façade is composed of successive horizontal bands of stone, brick, and plaster, edged at the terrace parapets with ridge tiles.

The verticality of the tower is further emphasised by narrow vertical openings running almost its full height. The tower is crowned by a five-pronged spire, which, despite certain compositional similarities to the 1930 Exhibition Hall, leans more clearly toward Art Deco, in contrast to the harsher, more Sachlich lines of the Cluj project. This distinction is most readily perceived through a comparison of the graphic representations produced by the architect for the two designs.