The architecture of transformation and postmodernism in Poland
fotografie: Paweł Mazur
- churches
- commercial
- hotels
- office buildings
- other
- public
- residential
Poznań, Church of St. Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr
A church in the Piątkowo housing estate in Poznań, built intermittently from 1990 to 2012. The church was designed by Eugeniusz ...
Warsaw, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Unconventional and playful – this is how Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, head of the team responsible for the design of the R...
Poznań, fortified villas
Two suburban villas, styled after medieval castles, stand at the entrance to Poznań from Luboń. The larger was built in the late...
Warsaw, St. Brother Albert Social Welfare Home
This postmodern, monumental building in Warsaw’s Praga district was built between 1984 and 1993, according to a design by a ...
Wrocław, Church of Divine Providence
A fixture on various lists of the ugliest buildings and churches in Poland, it was built amidst technical and financial challenges...
Warszawa, Marina Mokotów
A model example of a gated community, heavily secured and monitored, enclosed by fences and barriers, offering costly comfort to a...
Augustów, Atol
Seventy percent of respondents to a survey conducted by the Augustów city council (2024) want the demolition of the postmodern bu...
Kraków, Błękitek, K1
A 20-story office building next to Rondo Grzegórzeckie, which, including its spires, is the tallest building in Krakow (105 meter...
Gdańsk, Centromor Office Building
Rebuilt between 1998 and 2000, this mid-1960s office building served as the headquarters of Centromor until 2007. The expansion an...
Warsaw, Ateńska III Estate
A complex of terraced single-family homes in Praga-Południe, near Saska Kępa. The development was designed in 1994 by Wojciech H...
Gorzów Wielkopolski, Park 111
This mid-sized shopping mall, built in the city center between 2000 and 2002, was designed by Autorskie Atelier Leszek Horodyski. ...
Poznań, Warta Ribbon
The first luxury apartment complex built in Poznań after the 1989 revolution. Equipped with a swimming pool, sauna, and resident ...
Krakow, Basilica of Divine Mercy in Krakow-Łagiewniki
Built between 1999 and 2002, according to a design by Witold Cęckiewicz, as an expansion of the 19th-century convent of the Siste...
Gdańsk, Żak Club
This postmodern building was created through the adaptation and reconstruction of a former tram depot in the Wrzeszcz district of ...
Białystok, St. George’s Church
The Orthodox Church was built between 1998 and 2007, designed by Jerzy Uścinowicz, a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at ...
Białystok, Student Dormitory No. 1
A student residence hall belonging to the University of Białystok, built in the postmodern style between 1997 and 2002. Occupied ...
Opole, PZU, General Insurance Company
The PZU building in Opole was built at the turn of the century among the historic tenement houses of the city center. Previously, ...
Szczecin, Pazim
One of the first modern Polish office and hotel complexes of the 1990s transformation. The main dominant feature of the expansive ...
Warsaw, Stock Exchange Center, WSE building
One of Warsaw’s finest projects of the 1990s, the office building, built between 1998 and 2000, houses the Warsaw Stock Exch...
Warsaw, Sadyba, Konstancińska Street
A residential building in Warsaw’s Sadyba district, near Stanisław Dygat Park. The complex was built between 1993 and 1995,...
Poznań, Royal Castle
According to critics, Disneyland, Gargamel, and the dummy, whose construction between 2010 and 2013 irreversibly encased the relic...
Warsaw, Bażanty housing estate
The Ursynów housing estate in the Kabaty district, also known as the SM Przy SGGW Housing Estate, was built between 1998 and 2000...
Warsaw, Powsińska/Limanowskiego Complex
This irregular complex of interconnected buildings, varying in style, color, and height, with an internal courtyard on Powsińska ...
Gdańsk, ZUS, Social Insurance Institution
A unique structure from the era of “ZUS palaces,” it draws on the history of the site instead of reflective blue glazi...
Kraków, Shingle House in Wola Justowska
Designed for three families, this 540m² house was built in 2002 on Kasztanowa Street in the Wola Justowska district of Krakow. In...
Poznań, Church of the First Polish Martyrs
The church was built between 1980 and 1983, designed by Andrzej Maleszka. Based on a modified design for a catechetical house, its...
Warszawa, Colosseum
A 13-story apartment building on Grójecka Street in Warsaw, the upper, semicircular section is residential, while the lower three...
Warsaw, Monastic Communities of Jerusalem
The complex of buildings on Łazienkowska Street in Warsaw includes the Church of Our Lady of Jerusalem and the monastery building...

