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Unusual architecture - bulidings and structures in Poland


pawian  221 | 25662
15 Sep 2010   #1
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:
SeanBM  34 | 5781
15 Sep 2010   #2
Are talking about structures like the upside down house in Poland?

Poland upside down house

Or the crooked houses?
OP pawian  221 | 25662
15 Sep 2010   #3
Yes, exactly!

Sopot home

Funny Poland house

Crooked house in Poland

And not only.....

Also these:

Theater in Torun:
pgtx  29 | 3094
15 Sep 2010   #4
RMF FM Krakow

Krakow radio station building
OP pawian  221 | 25662
15 Sep 2010   #5
Thanks.

The Leaning Tower oin Ząbkowice Śląskie:
pgtx  29 | 3094
15 Sep 2010   #6
SOF in Krakow

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OP pawian  221 | 25662
22 May 2012   #7
View tower in Gorzów Wielkopolski :):):):):)
wawa_marek  1 | 129
22 May 2012   #8
Hotel in Lodz

Public TV building in Warsaw

Public TV building in Warsaw

10 years old hotel near Warsaw

Nowy Dwor
OP pawian  221 | 25662
22 May 2012   #9
Rocket in Warsaw:
wawa_marek  1 | 129
22 May 2012   #11
pawian

What is strange in it?
OP pawian  221 | 25662
22 May 2012   #12
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:
wawa_marek  1 | 129
22 May 2012   #13
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.
OP pawian  221 | 25662
22 May 2012   #14
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.

Please explain your golden rule to me.

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

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

National Library in Warsaw, Poland

Library in Poland

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_University_Library
jon357  73 | 23223
18 Jun 2012   #15
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.

Biblioteka Narodowa
OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Jun 2012   #16
You're mixing two buildings.

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!
Harry
19 Jun 2012   #17
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!
OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Jul 2012   #18
Just built in £ódź

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Hotel in Gdańsk

Hall in Katowice called Saucer, built in communism.

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OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Jul 2012   #20
Oh, I see. Bus station in Kielce, communist built.

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

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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:

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Very peculiar temple:

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This Warsaw skyscraper has always appealed to me:

Warsaw building

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.
pip  10 | 1658
30 Sep 2012   #21
I have a bunch of photos- too complicated, this process needs to be simpler.
OP pawian  221 | 25662
1 Oct 2012   #22
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:
Baacon  - | 46
5 Oct 2012   #23
I'd say that Rapa Pyramid is unusual for Poland as well


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jon357  73 | 23223
5 Oct 2012   #24
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.

The walls around the base of this property, just outside the Polish capital of Warsaw, are clad with mirrors - giving the impression that the top floor of the building is floating.

house of mirrors
Paulina  16 | 4338
9 Feb 2023   #25
Cool building in Bielsko-Biała - Frog House (Kamienica pod Żabami) :):

froghouse

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 :):

whole

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OP pawian  221 | 25662
9 Feb 2023   #26
it looks fun and pretty :):

Yes, cute.

Theater in Torun:

Puppet Theatre looks like a cupboard


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Paulina  16 | 4338
20 Aug 2023   #27
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:

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At night:

atnight

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Alien  24 | 5891
22 Oct 2023   #28
The Summer Theatre

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.


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