Brother Albert Almshouse for the Homeless Men (now St. Brother Albert Care Home)
Czesław Boratyński and Edward Kreisler; sculptural decoration: Ludwik Puszet
1 Nowaczyńskiego St.
1938
- m2
Architects of the National Museum, as the employees of the Building Office of the City of Kraków, designed also the pre-war Almshouse. It was situated in the quiet district of Dębniki. The main building was surrounded from the south by low residential wings and on its axis it had a chapel. Its modern composition was reminiscent of the buildings by Auguste Perret, a French classic of reinforced concrete architecture. The complex, destroyed during the bombing in September 1939, was rebuilt after the war. Recently it underwent a thermal insulation – like other structures managed by the City Welfare Centre (MOPS). It received an intensely yellow-and-white colour scheme.