Dico și Țigănaș is an internationally awarded architecture studio recognized for innovative projects and integrated design processes.
Through sustainable solutions, rigorous analysis, and interdisciplinary coordination, the firm develops efficient and high-performance buildings. Attention to detail, resource optimization, and adaptation to contemporary requirements represent essential premises of every project.
The international awards and distinctions include recognitions such as Winner of the Architizer A+ Awards (2013), nominations for the ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards (2013) and the EU Mies van der Rohe Award (2013), as well as a shortlist for World Architecture News Awards (2012) for Cluj Arena.
Further recognitions include a shortlist for the Architizer A+ Awards (2015) for BT Arena and a nomination for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award (2019) for Ion Oblemenco Stadium.
International projects include data center and infrastructure developments carried out outside Romania or for external markets, developed between 2014 and 2025 in locations such as Azerbaijan, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Croatia, Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Qatar, South Africa, and Nigeria.
Among international collaborations and partnerships are projects developed with Mivan–Kier for social housing in 27 cities across Romania, as well as collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects for the Science Campus Cluj-Napoca competition.
Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca
Cluj Arena, inaugurated in 2011, reinterprets the history of the stadium that began in 1911. The central concept is transparency, which opens the arena toward the city and the Someș River.
The artificial shaping of the terrain generates an embankment and creates a promenade that connects the park to the stadium volume. During the day, light modulates the façades, while at night the stadium becomes a luminous urban landmark.
BT Arena Multipurpose Hall, Cluj-Napoca
BT Arena continues the green axis of the Someș River and is articulated as an urban extension of the stadium.
The concept is based on contrast and integration, featuring a layered façade: a parametric network evoking the deformation of a mesh, and a translucent skin that modulates the perception of the interior. In 2017, its capacity was expanded to 10,000 seats.
National Rugby Stadium, Bucharest
Stadionul Național de Rugby, the fifth stadium designed by Dico și Țigănaș, adopts a strategy of functional distribution and a geometry derived from the COSR triangle, used as a directional reference for the west stand.
The morphology of the volumes favors compact masses and clear lines, structuring the ensemble: stadium, functional building, hotel, parking, and the dedicated rugby area.
Ion Oblemenco Stadium, Craiova
Stadionul Ion Oblemenco is shaped through the articulation of context, structural logic, and spatial experience.
The ensemble brings together infrastructure that negotiates contact with the ground, an elevated ring that organizes flows, spaces embedded beneath the stands, the arena that mediates geometry, and a crown of colossal arches that covers the seating areas.
"To a very large extent, architecture is part of the international perception of a country, alongside other elements. The more high-quality contemporary public architecture there is, the more favorable the perception of what Romania is today becomes—this is clear."
"These infrastructure facilities are components of a broader system that exists—and must exist—in any attractive city. They cannot function on their own, and municipalities should not rely on them exclusively."