Polish Architecture

These are houses in Myslenice, 35KM south of Krakow.
The first two photos are of a modern house with a tached roof, simply a wonderful design and arched to make maximum use of the sun.

The second photo is of a house I am not particularly mad about but this classical "castle look" is very popular here in Poland. When your home really is your castle :)

I do like the roof tiling when it flow over the roof windows like an eye.

The last one seems to be one of the oldest houses in Myslenice.
There is a lot of intricate designs carved in to the wood but this photo does not show it so well.

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It's gorgeous! Where is it?

In Krakow, inkrakow :)
Click here for map of location
maps.google.pl/maps?q=krakow+map&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=pl&ei=h9lxSs6jAZGnsAb65tidDA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

um, I gathered that from the first sentence ;)
any chance of an address or street name?

Oh yeah, that map didn't work, I had the marker on the street, I don't know how to save the map location hhhmmm...

It is on Ul. Leopolda Staffa.

designed by the brits.more photos:

Stegna church

Thanks to all the folks posting pictures here, some really nice ones! Pretty diverse and interesting to find all these styles and time-period houses all over the country. That is something that Norway could learn from. Too bad they killed our capitol in the 60's and 70's with modern concrete slab buildings next to old 18 century decorated buildings. Which makes Oslo seem like a schizophrenic nightmare.

I recently found out that my town of Mikolow has upgraded their website considerably with an excellent english version. Big thanks to whomever took the time to actually do this for a small city like that. They also made a birdseye view available with the possibility to click oneself around town to churches, botanical gardens and backstreets.

Link:

mikolow.um.gov.pl

At the bottom of the page is the "Wirtualny spacer po Mikolowie"

Might take a few seconds to load completely, but worth the wait.

Dariusz

Glimpses of Poland.

Some examples of Polish architecture you can find all across Poland and in Ukraine and Belarus (the areas encompassed by the Old Republic).

From our golden period when Polish influence could be felt from Kiev to Budapest to the interwar period of 1920-39.

First the great fortress city of Zamość, this reneissance fortress and its city was the most powerfull stronghold in Poland and among the greatest fortresses of Renessaince Europe, while the fortifications deteriorates the city itself largely survived the turbulent years and was restored to its former glory.

Fort
Remnants of the mighty walls of Zamość.
Staszica
To the town square
View on the tower
Streets

The Renaissance streets of old Zamość.
Academy
Zamoyska Academy where Polish military elite once trained.
Town square
Renessaince houses on the town square.
Town square wall

A wall of town square buildings, in the foreground richer merchant houses, in the back regular citizens buildings.

Town square
Another wall of Zamość town square.
Southern wall
South wall of the town square (at least i think its the south one).
Town hall

The magnificent town hall of Zamość, the seat of the civilian administration back when it was a fortress.

Courtyard

Zamoyska academy courtyard.
Arsenal

The arsenal of the old fortress.

Arsenal in full view.

Sean you should've told me earlier i'd hijack yours instead of making a new one, well whats done is done.

I asked WB to merge my thread with yours, i'll post more pics in yours if its OK with you.

One of the best things about Zamosc is the lack of tourists. I was down there last July (or perhaps August) and there were very very few tourists. Zamosc seems to be one of those places which Poles love to say how wonderful is but isn't quite wonderful enough for them to go there.

The other best thing about Zamosc is the beer: the best beer from the best brewing region in Poland.

Any time :)


You have my undivided attention, I will look it up immediately, if not sooner :)

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It looks like Nicosia in Cyprus... I think that might have already been in the other thread...Here

Zwierzyniec. Stunningly good stuff. It's from the same people who do Perla (and I hope you know how good that is). They also do one called Lubelski Pils which is well worth trying. Even the local Grupa Zywiec beer (Lezajsk) is good, far far better than Zywiec!

Thanks for the tip.

Well maybe I can show here something interesting. I'm from Poznan, city-fortress and it can be seen on every corner in this city. So I have some intrestong photo comparisions how the architecture was changing. It used to say that buildings in Posen was destroyed to far less extent (hmm I have strang feeling that there's something wrong with this sentence...) than in other cities. It's because prussian way of building which was considered as very solid. And I can say that's true because when you compare today photos and those from 30's there are almost no differences.

I forgot the pictures ... :)

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And some more

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and more ;)

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On the last picture you can see how destroyed was some of buildings. But after the war they were rebuild exactly the same way.

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One more missing picture to last post .

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Great photos, very interesting.
Thanks for posting them, if you have any more please fell free to add them as I think everyone is interested in how things looked in the past and how they compare to today, thanks again.

Modern Architecture in Poland

What are some examples of modern architecture in Poland?
These new housing blocks in Gdansk made an impression on me.

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Interesting things happening in Tricity.............. facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.251218741566490.61254.2195 68481398183

Endless amount of polish architecture and polish cities photos you can find here:

skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=639 ("Miasta polskie");
skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=47 ("Wieżowce i panoramy").

Merged: Best modern architecture in Europe prize - for Szczecin

The biannual Mies Van Der Rohe prize has gone to Poland. In effect, it's for the best modern building in Europe over the last two years - the building in question is the new Szczecin Philharmonic. It's certainly a very good building and very radical architecture.

This link is to a Polish article, saying more or less as above and with a good picture.


polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1610941,1,filharmonia-szczecinska-najlepszym-budynkiem-europy.read

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Good news, isn't it. Last year the Finlandia Prize for Architecture was also won by a building in Poland, in Warsaw to be exact. I wanted to put up a thread about it but Admin told me that it would be off topic and I may find a [word redacted] forum and discuss it there.

This is amazing - some of Warsaw's most characteristic buildings available to by as cut out paper projects:


wired.com/2015/06/warsaws-brutalist-buildings-dutifully-recreated-paper

They've even included the graffiti!

Very nice, but not cheap though, considering what they are.

Carry me out and bury me decently, where you would you get the patience to deal with them.
Thanks for the link to the paper buildings Jon, stunning. What a pity there isn't more of that kind of thing on this forum. Stuff that's to do with Poland and actually interesting and nice.