Bronisław Czech Academy of Physical Education
Architecture of the complex, realised due to its original design, is an example of Brutalism in the Late Modern architecture of the 1970s which also dominated in the 1980s. Tribunes, which are Expressionist, austere and heavy in their tectonics with sincerely exposed structure, are a strong spatial accent. The mass of the auditorium with a sculpturally treated ‘comb’ of its external walls, demonstrates similar approach in terms of tectonics. Horizontal main building with its protruding lower part along with the horizontal window bands and vertical lesenes (accentuated by black marbelite glass) ties in with the International Style. Buildings for education are a set of massive, glazed cuboids. Three vertical masses of halls of residence are distinctly visible in the entire complex; their elevations are composed of the grid of loggias cut by vertical circulation and with a massive entrance accent. The whole is crowned by a cornice-like pergola.