2026-02-04
Golden Tenement Houses, Artus Park, Waterside – these are various names for the controversial tenement complex on Długie Ogrody Street in Gdańsk. Some consider it a monument to early postmodernism, while others consider it a “Gdańsk macabre” that embodies all Read more…
The mBank building complex in Bydgoszcz, built between 1995 and 1998 on Grodzka Street, on the Brda River. Considered one of the best-designed and best-executed investments of the Third Polish Republic, the design by architects Andrzej Bulanda and Włodzimierz Mucha Read more…
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…
The Totalizator Sportowy office building was constructed between 1993 and 1995 on Palacza Street in Poznań. The three-story building, composed of four stone-clad segments connected by a glass corridor, was designed by Izabela Klimaszewska and Tadeusz Biedak. Address: Macieja Palacza Read more…
This project became an iconic turn-of-the-century office building in Poland and set the standard for Class A buildings. Built between 1998 and 2001, the Focus building was designed by Kuryłowicz & Associates near Pole Mokotowskie. The designers envisioned it as Read more…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
The skyscraper was built between 2000 and 2003, designed by Wojciech Kluk and his team from the Pro-Arte Architects’ Cooperative. It has 18 floors, the first six of which are used for television production. The building’s roof houses a helipad. Read more…
The office building was built between 1999 and 2001, designed by the MAT architectural studio in Sopot. An architectural icon of Katowice’s transformation period and the turn of the century, it was initially home to numerous companies and international corporations, Read more…
The Bank Handlowy office building was built in 1995 according to a design by Andrzej Kapuścik. A year later, the building won the Grand Prix at the Silesian Voivodeship Architecture of the Year competition. In early 2025, the building was Read more…
The building was designed in 1995 and completed six years later in 2001, for the BPH Bank. The building’s modern design, particularly for the mid-1990s, was created by the Krakow-based DDJM studio, led by Marek Dunikowski. Address: Plac Wolności 3, Read more…
The “Kaskada” Banking and Office Center on Jana Pawła II Avenue was built between 1996 and 1998, designed by Jerzy Skrzypczak and Jerzy Janczak (J&J Architecture Design Office), which received the Second Degree Award from the Ministry of Interior and Read more…
Scheduled for demolition and replacement with a taller skyscraper, this office building at Rondo ONZ in Warsaw was built between 1995 and 1997, designed by Miljenko Dumenčić and Mirosław Kartowicz for the Austrian company Ilbau. It has 22 floors above Read more…
One of the most interesting office buildings designed by the “architect of nascent capitalism” in Poland, Stefan Kuryłowicz (1949-2011). It was built on a narrow plot on Nowogrodzka Street in Warsaw between 1996 and 1998. It is distinguished by its Read more…
This office building was built in 1996, designed by Croatian Miljenko Dumenčić, who was associated with Poland and was the creator of Pazim in Szczecin and Ilmet in Warsaw, among others. Considered by its designer to be one of the Read more…
Three office buildings: Neptun (currently the seat of the Institute of National Remembrance), Syriusz, and Orion, forming part of the Mokotów Business Park office complex. Built between 1996 and 1999, designed by JEMS Architekci, on the post-industrial site of the Read more…
This blue and white Katowice office building features a turn-of-the-century design, featuring a profusion of windows with blue reflective glass. It was built in 2000-2001, designed by the Katowice-based Czora&Czora Architectural Studio. It has nine floors and 11,000 square meters Read more…
An office building serving media functions, home to TVN, TVN24, and other stations within the Polish arm of Warner Bros. Discovery. Built between 2000 and 2003, it was designed by the Irish studio Wejchert Architects, in collaboration with the Warsaw-based Read more…
This office building on Nowogrodzka Street in Warsaw was designed by Jacek Jedynak and Witold Kalinowski. It was constructed in 1999-2000 to Class A office standards. It has nine floors above ground and three underground. The building’s distinctive façade encloses Read more…
A skyscraper on Aleje Jerozolimskie in Warsaw, built and designed by the controversial Turkish businessman Vahap Toy (later expelled from Poland) between 1996 and 1999. Known as the “toi-toi,” it is also due to the building’s exterior, postmodern aesthetic reminiscent Read more…
The headquarters of the media corporation Agora S.A., built according to a design by JEMS Architekci, selected in the largest architectural competition organized by a private investor in Poland in the 1990s. The building was constructed between 2000 and 2002 Read more…
The center of the Polish capital. A complex of several buildings, including the 105-meter-high Skylight skyscraper, a multiplex cinema, and a shopping mall covered with a distinctive, undulating glass roof, covering over 10,000 square meters and weighing 1,400 tons. The Read more…
A 20-story office building next to Rondo Grzegórzeckie, which, including its spires, is the tallest building in Krakow (105 meters). The first skyscraper was built on this site between 1972 and 1975, commissioned by the Workers’ Publishing Cooperative “Prasa,” according Read more…
Rebuilt between 1998 and 2000, this mid-1960s office building served as the headquarters of Centromor until 2007. The expansion and modernization of the communist-era building included the addition of a new wing on the Bogusławskiego Street side, its functional connection Read more…
One of the first modern Polish office and hotel complexes of the 1990s transformation. The main dominant feature of the expansive building is the 92-meter-high glass tower, which houses, among other things, the offices of the Polish Steamship Company. The Read more…
One of Warsaw’s finest projects of the 1990s, the office building, built between 1998 and 2000, houses the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the National Depository for Securities, and the Polish Power Exchange. Its architectural design was created by Stanisław Fiszer and Read more…
A unique structure from the era of “ZUS palaces,” it draws on the history of the site instead of reflective blue glazing, stone cladding, and expressive deconstructivist forms. The building, erected in the late 1980s, references the complex of historic Read more…
It’s no coincidence that the office building on Domaniewska Street in Warsaw resembles a kettle and the letter “Z.” The glass building, characteristic of the transformation era, was built by the Swiss company Zepter, known for its household appliances. The Read more…
A complex of three office buildings, with the tallest, Unity Tower (102 meters), built on the site of the unfinished NOT office building, popularly known as the Skeletor. Construction work on this site began in 1975 and was halted four Read more…
The modernization of V Tower (formerly Warta Tower), ongoing since 2024, has become an example of an ecological approach to the problem of aging buildings from the 1990s that fail to meet current standards. Despite estimates that demolishing the building Read more…
An office building in the centre of the capital city on Chmielna Street, built between 1993 and 1996 as the Aktyn Business Centre. Designed by Miljenko Dumenčić and Krzysztof Kamiński in a postmodernist style. Saved from demolition and renovated between Read more…
A complex with office and commercial functions, which, in addition to offices, also houses restaurants, shops and service outlets. It was built between 1997 and 1999 according to a design by Tadeusz Spychała, the architect of many other buildings in Read more…
The semi-circular office building on the corner of Damrota and Powstańców Streets in Katowice was built between 1997 and 1999 according to a design by Jan Lelątko, Piotr Pawłowski and Zdzisław Stanik. In 2000, the design received awards from the Read more…
The building was designed by Czesław Bielecki and his studio MiD’84, which in 1997 won first prize in the competition organised by the Association of Polish Architects for the new headquarters of TVP (the preliminary design was also co-created by Read more…
Huge blue glass windows, aluminium, stone cladding, irregularly scattered bay windows – the PKO BP building is a prime example of lavish Polish corporate postmodernism from the 1990s. Built between 1993 and 1996 by Przedsiębiorstwo Budownictwa Ogólnego Śląsk, it was Read more…
A monumental example of Polish postmodernism from the 1990s. It has 17 floors, including 4 underground floors, and 83,000 square metres of usable space. Described as a ‘moloch’ and a ‘block’ and criticised for its chaotic form and stylistic Read more…
‘Najntisy’, or the 1990s in the form of a palace in the capital city. This pink, postmodern, class B office building was constructed between 1989 and 1993 according to a design by Krzysztof Chwalibog, Ryszard Girtler and Jerzy Kołomycki. It Read more…
Zrealizowano w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego