Unusual architecture - bulidings and structures in Poland

Let`s collect all kinds of unusual buildings and constructions in Poland. I have found a dozen so far, and need more food for thought. Can you help?

Normally, a Catholic church in Poland looks like that:

See a Catholic church in Lublin:

Are talking about structures like the upside down house in Poland?



Or the crooked houses?

Yes, exactly!

Sopot home





And not only.....

Also these:

Theater in Torun:

RMF FM Krakow

Krakow radio station building

Thanks.

The Leaning Tower oin Ząbkowice Śląskie:

SOF in Krakow

View tower in Gorzów Wielkopolski :):):):):)

Hotel in Lodz

Public TV building in Warsaw

Public TV building in Warsaw

10 years old hotel near Warsaw

Nowy Dwor

Rocket in Warsaw:

very nice :)

pawian

What is strange in it?

Am I asking you what is unusual in Nowy Dwór photo you posted? so...... :) Probably you are too young to know certain golden rule............. :):):)

A submarine church in Krakow:

I am watching that "Rocket in Warsaw" daily since over 40 years. It's typical Soviet socrealism architecture from 50's. I could see some other buildings like this in Moscow. It's also the whole district in Warsaw called MDM in this style. It doesn't look strange for me. Please explain your golden rule to me.

You are from Warsaw, I am from Krakow. :):):):) You have Palace of Culture and Science, we have St. Mary`s Cathedral.

Poniał aluzju? :):):):)

Besides, dozens of PF members haven`t been to Warsaw or Moscow.


Live and let live. :):):):)

I will never cease to admire the National Library in Warsaw:





en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_University_Library

You're mixing two buildings. That's the University library, the one with the huge roof garden. The National Library is a rather distinguished and urbane Modernist building on Al. Niepodległości. With a stone circle in the grounds.

No, I didn`t. I perfectly knew what I was talking about, I visited the facility twice, after all.

I just hurried and wrote the wrong name, that`s all. Thank you for noticing it!

Church in a place called Orly (halway between Przemysl and Orly). These photos really do not do the place justice though:

Another church in SE Poland, this time it is Zamosc (the most beautiful city in Poland).

Zamosc church

Doesn't look too weird (or at least not by the standards of Polish churches from that period) but check it out when they dress it up!

Just built in £ódź



Hotel in Gdańsk

Hall in Katowice called Saucer, built in communism.

SO COOL!!!

Oh, I see. Bus station in Kielce, communist built.

Malbork, the biggest gothic castle made of brick in the world.



The Malbork Castle from the previous post was built by Teutonic Knights in 14 century, seriously damaged during WW2, rebuilt by Polish afterwards.

Another German-built construction - the highest lighthouse in Poland:



Very peculiar temple:



This Warsaw skyscraper has always appealed to me:



Architects had to design it like that after residents of nearby houses protested against shadowing their window view.

Second longest in Europe block of flats/apartment block is in Gdańsk. It is nearly one kilometer long. Built in communist times. Inhabited by 6000 people.

I have a bunch of photos- too complicated, this process needs to be simpler.

It is. You must simply ask someone to show you how to do it.

I still use this: More advanced guys, like my eldest son, for example, use wireless:

I'd say that Rapa Pyramid is unusual for Poland as well

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There are several in Rapa.

At the time they were built, that area was German and an influential local doctor promoted vertical burials in pyramids for reasons now lost to us.

Merged: Mirrored house built in Izabelin

There are some interesting things happening in architecture in PL at the moment. A lot of what gets built is bland with most of the innovative stuff being corporate, but this is one of the interesting ones.

Cool building in Bielsko-Biała - Frog House (Kamienica pod Żabami) :):



It was built in 1903 in Art Nouveau style and originally it was a winery. It got renovated in 2020 and it looks fun and pretty :):



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Yes, cute.


Puppet Theatre looks like a cupboard

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Some 2023 architecture news - the Summer Theatre in Szczecin, which was built in communist times thanks to local community effort and rebuilt recently got into the final of World Architecture Festival 2023:

sukces.rp.pl/architektura/art38746361-szczecinski-teatr-w-finale-swiatowego-festiwalu-architektury-symbol-miasta

The Summer Theatre during the day:



At night:

It looks beautiful, but it's a pity that my last attempt to enter Szczecin by car ended with me getting stuck in a terrible traffic jam in the city center and then, disgusted, I turned around and drove home.