Jagiellonian Library
Undoubtedly the most famous building by this pre-eminent architect is the Jagiellonian Library, situated at Mickiewicza Avenue, next to the National Museum. Both edifices are described in the literature as the examples of the so called “1937 style” – i.e. classicising Modernism, tying in also with the Italian architecture of that age. Regardless of the discussion of its style, the seat of the Library is timeless. Its architecture is coherent, representational but not exaggerated, with slender vertical articulation, stone veneer of high quality (granite and sandstone) and the entrance portal of black granite. The interior of the original entrance hall and the staircase, with marbles and alabaster from the mine of Princes Czartoryski in Żurawno, accentuates the position of the client and of the largest Polish library. The extension by Romuald Loegler, with the entrance on the side of Oleandry St., aptly complements the pre-war Library.