The architecture of transformation and postmodernism in Poland
fotografie: Paweł Mazur
- churches
- commercial
- hotels
- office buildings
- other
- public
- residential
Gorzów Wielkopolski, Dominanta
Although the Gorzów city council considered the construction of the tower to be a mistake ‘from the point of view of the qualit...
Tychy, Church of the Holy Spirit
The church was built between 1979 and 1982 in Tychy on Myśliwska Street, designed by Stanisław Niemczyk (the first sacred buildi...
Rybnik, Town Hall
The office building in Rybnik, known as the ‘New Town Hall’ (the ‘old’ one is located on the Market Square), was built bet...
Warszawa, Europlex
A complex with office and commercial functions, which, in addition to offices, also houses restaurants, shops and service outlets....
Katowice, Bank Rozwoju Eksportu, mBank
The semi-circular office building on the corner of Damrota and Powstańców Streets in Katowice was built between 1997 and 1999 ac...
Warsaw, Grey Villa
The villa was rebuilt after World War II, designed by Bronisław Brochwicz-Rogoyski and built in Powiśle in 1905. Until the war, ...
Wrocław, Szewska Centre
A multi-storey car park in the centre of Wrocław, built between 1993 and 2000, an icon of Polish postmodernism and 1990s architec...
Grajewo, Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
In July 2020, a 15-tonne metal fragment of the tower of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grajewo was dismantled. The op...
Krakow, Church of Divine Mercy in the Officers’ Housing Estate
Postmodernist, one of the most interesting contemporary churches in Krakow, built between 1991 and 1994 according to a design by S...
Łódź Fabryczna, railway station
One of the most modern railway stations in Poland (PREMIUM standard), built on the site of a former railway station modernised in ...
Poznań, Orlen petrol station
The most attractive station of the Polish fuel company. It was built in 1995 on the corner of Wierzbięcice and Topolowa Streets i...
Szczecin, Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall
The Szczecin ‘ice palace’ was built between 2011 and 2014 on the site of the neo-Renaissance German Konzerthaus, which was dem...
Warsaw, Fort Business Centre (Fort Piontek)
A postmodern commercial and service complex in Białołęka, built between 1999 and 2002 on the initiative of Danuta Piontek, the ...
Lublin, St. Urszula Ledóchowska Church
One of the churches of the 1990s, often criticised for its ‘bizarre’ aesthetics. The church tower, or more specifically the as...
Jelenia Góra, apartment block at 299 Wolności Street
A block of flats in Cieplice, the spa district of Jelenia Góra. A frequent guest on various lists of the ugliest and strangest bu...
Rytro, Inn Under the Castle
A hotel, restaurant, shop and petrol station located on the banks of the Poprad River, among the picturesque wooded slopes of the ...
Warsaw, University of Warsaw Library
One of the highest-rated buildings in Poland constructed in the 1990s, an icon of Polish postmodernism and architecture of the tra...
Czechowice-Dziedzice, Church of Jesus Christ the Redeemer
The church was designed by Stanisław Niemczyk, a former resident of this parish. It was built between 1995 and 1999 and consecrat...
Warsaw, Polish Television, Tower of Babel
The building was designed by Czesław Bielecki and his studio MiD’84, which in 1997 won first prize in the competition organ...
Warsaw, Church of Our Lady of the Angels (Wierzbno)
One of Stefan Kuryłowicz’s first architectural designs (1985). The church, co-designed by Jakub Wacławek, was built over a...
Ostrów Wielkopolski, Mellon, Wrocławska 10
A small shopping and service centre, whose construction was initiated and carried out by the Municipal Housing Authority in Ostró...
Katowice, PKO BP branch at Damrota Street
Huge blue glass windows, aluminium, stone cladding, irregularly scattered bay windows – the PKO BP building is a prime example o...
Kolnica, Church of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe
The Church of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe was built between 1981 and 1987 according to a design by Białystok architect Andrzej Chw...
Opole, St. Charles Borromeo Church
The design for the Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Opole was created in 2006 by Opole architect Janusz Oleniecki. The foundation...
Warszawa, Centrum Finansowe Puławska
A monumental example of Polish postmodernism from the 1990s. It has 17 floors, including 4 underground floors, and 83,000 s...
Warszawa, Okopowa 47
‘Najntisy’, or the 1990s in the form of a palace in the capital city. This pink, postmodern, class B office building was const...
Warszawa, Blue City
Shopping centre designed by Vahap Toya...
Łyse, Church of Christ the King of the Universe
The temple was built between 1998 and 2000....

