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Category: Wroclaw

Wrocław, Statek and Inkatus blocks

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This building, with a facade resembling the side of a ship, was built in 1999-2000 according to a design by Krzysztof Skalski. It is adjacent to the yellow-and-blue Inkatus building, designed by the same architect. Address: Kiełczowska 51 and Poselska Read more…


Wrocław, Church of Christ the King

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Polish Deconstructivism of the late 1980s. The church was designed by Witold Jerzy Molicki, the architect of several Wrocław housing estates. Built between 1987 and 1991 in the western part of the city – Przedmieście Mikołajskie. Address: Młodych Techników Street, Read more…


Wrocław, Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace

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A postmodern church in Wrocław’s Popowice neighborhood, built between 1982 and 1994. Designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, Wacław Hryniewicz, and Jan Matkowski, the building, intended by its designers to “reflect the thousand-year history of the church in Poland,” variously paraphrases Baroque Read more…


Wrocław, Centrum Orląt, EFL Building

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The EFL building at Orląt Lwowskich Square in Wrocław, also known as the Centrum Orląt, was built in 2000-2001 according to a design by the Archicom design studio (lead architect: Dorota Jarodzka-Śródka). The project’s investor was Leszek Czarnecki’s European Leasing Read more…


Wrocław, Papugowiec, a colorful Infill

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The most famous Polish infill of the 1990s. Built in 1996 at Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 36 in Wrocław, designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, it is now the most iconic example of Wrocław postmodernism following the demolition of the Solpol building in 2022. Read more…


Wrocław, colorful apartment blocks on Szwedzka Street

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The colorful apartment blocks on Szwedzka Street in Wrocław were built at the turn of the 21st century. Designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, the complex forms a zigzag shape, aligned north-south, receiving sunlight from the east in the morning and from Read more…


Wrocław, Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka

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This two-story Catholic church was built between 1984 and 1997 on the site of a pre-war Protestant chapel. The church was designed by Maria and Stefan Müller. Address: 89 Hubska Street, Wrocław.


Wrocław, corner of Zielińskiego and Swobodna

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Built between 1992 and 1995, this multi-family building at the intersection of Zielińskiego and Swobodna Streets in Wrocław was designed by Wojciech Jarząbek in collaboration with Edward Lach and Ewa Leś (designed in 1991). In 2009, the building underwent renovations, Read more…


Wrocław, building at 1 Kukułcza Street

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A residential and office building completed in 2008 at the intersection of Kukułcza and Gęsia Streets in Wrocław. Designed by Wojciech Jarząbek. Address: Kukułcza Street 1, Wrocław.


Wrocław, Lower Silesian Tax Office (formerly Wrozamet)

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An office building designed in 2000 by Wojciech Jarząbek and his Studio A+R team for the household appliance manufacturer Wrozamet. Currently, it houses the Lower Silesian Tax Office in Wrocław. Address: ul. Żmigrodzka 141, Wrocław.


Wrocław, Herbarium

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This four-story, cube-shaped building with a distinctive, glass-enclosed round corner is a branch of the University of Wrocław’s Museum of Natural History, housing herbariums containing plant specimens (including the oldest herbarium in Poland, that of Sylwiusz Boccone). The building, designed Read more…


Wrocław, Hotel HP Park Plaza

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This seven-story hotel was built in 1998-1999, designed by Edward Lach and his colleagues at EL Studio. It opened on December 27, 1999, and was partially renovated ten years later. It is located on the Oder River near the Bielarska Read more…


Wrocław, Wratislavia Tower

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An office and cinema complex (opening until 2025) located at the intersection of Kazimierza Wielkiego and Św. Antoniego Streets in the center of Wrocław. Built between 1999 and 2002, the building was designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, Jerzy Chmura, Helmut Sprenger, Read more…


Wrocław, Church of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe

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The church was built in Wrocław’s Gądów Mały neighborhood by the parish’s first and long-time pastor, Dr. Czesław Majda. The entire complex, consisting of a chapel, tower, parish, and main church, was built over the last two decades of the Read more…


Wrocław, Legnicka Business House

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This eight-story office building was constructed between 1999 and 2007 next to the Magnolia Park shopping center on Legnicka Street in Wrocław. Designed by Joanna Balasińska and Piotr Kociołek (AGP1 studio), the building’s shape is formed by an intersecting horizontal Read more…


Wrocław, Millenium Towers

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A complex of three office buildings on Strzegomska Street in Wrocław, designed by Wojciech Jarząbek and his colleagues at Studio A+R in the postmodern style, were built in 1999-2001, 2007-09, and 2013. Three buildings, numbered I, II, and IV, exist, Read more…


Wrocław, Renaissance Business Center

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A postmodern version of a Renaissance urban palace with enclosed windows and glass walls. The building was constructed between 1998 and 2000 next to St. Elizabeth’s Basilica, just off Wrocław’s Market Square. Its architects were Dorota Jarodzka-Śródka, Kazimierz Śródka, Teresa Read more…


Wrocław, Solpol II

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The second, undemolished Solpol building, designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, is located across Świdnicka Street, opposite the empty square where Solpol I once stood. The building was opened in 1999 as a department store, but in 2006 it changed its function Read more…


Wrocław, Ołowiana-Pereca-Żelazna

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A colorful, eclectic complex of residential and commercial buildings, built between 1996 and 1999 by the Metalowiec Housing Cooperative, designed by Wojciech Jarząbek and his Studio Ar-5 team (Jan Matkowski, Jacek Sroczyński, Paweł Jaszczuk). The buildings are located in the Read more…


Wrocław, National Bank of Poland at Lelewela Street

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Wrocław’s high-tech postmodernism. A rare example of the use of high-quality materials in 1990s postmodern architecture, it features glass and steel alongside Strzelin granite. The building was constructed between 1997 and 1999 on a triangular corner plot between Lelewela and Read more…


Wrocław, Church of the Redeemer of the World

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A church commemorating the Millennium of the Diocese of Wrocław, its design echoes that of the Archcathedral of St. John the Baptist on Ostrów Tumski. Built according to the competition-winning design by Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, designer of the famous Wrocław “sedesowce.” Read more…


Wroclaw, Ludwika Pasteura 17A

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This residential building was built in 1991-1992, designed by renowned Wrocław architect Marian Barski and his son, Jacek Barski, who has been the City Architect of Wrocław since 2024. In 1995, the building received the “Most Beautiful Infill Building” award. Read more…


Wrocław, Primary School No. 118

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The school was built in the early 1990s on the site of a former airport. The building’s architectural design was created by Zbigniew Malinowski (1943-2013), a colleague of Andrzej Chachaj, with whom he designed the Gądów-Lotnisko housing estate surrounding the Read more…


Wrocław, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola

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KThe church and monastery complex were built on the site of an earlier church, designed by Zenon Nasterski. The complex, constructed in stages, without interruption in parish activity, was built between 1981 and 1990. The slender, tall brick strips between Read more…


Wrocław, Wyszyński/National Unity block

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The residential complex between Wyszyńskiego and Jedności Narodowej Streets in Wrocław was built in 1994. Its eastern section facing the Old Oder River was designed (1993) by a team led by Kazimierz Grun, with collaboration from Aldona Kożan and Henryk Read more…


Wrocław, Church of Divine Providence

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A fixture on various lists of the ugliest buildings and churches in Poland, it was built amidst technical and financial challenges over a 30-year period, starting in 1983. The church, which has drawn sharp criticism (the architect is “obsessed with Read more…


Wrocław, multi-story car park on Rejtana Street

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This 24-hour parking garage on Rejtana Street in Wrocław was built in 1998 in a postmodern style. The facility was designed by Edward Lach and his Studio EL studio. Address: ul. Tadeusza Rejtana 9, Wrocław.  


Wrocław, St. Elizabeth’s Church on Grabiszyńska Street

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One of two churches in Wrocław dedicated to St. Elizabeth of Hungary (the other is the basilica on the market square), built together with a monastery in 1893–1896 according to a neo-Gothic design by Joseph Ebers. In 1945, it was Read more…


Wrocław, Szewska Centre

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A multi-storey car park in the centre of Wrocław, built between 1993 and 2000, an icon of Polish postmodernism and 1990s architecture. Designed on commission from Parkingi Miejskie S.A. by Stefan Müller (and his Terra office) in collaboration with Paweł Read more…