Collegium Paderevianum – Collegium Philologicum
Józef Gołąb, Zbigniew Olszakowski; Interiors: Zdzisław Szpyrkowski
9 Adama Mickiewicza Avenue
1973
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The building was meant to be a seat of the administration, and as the structure of 10 floors it was to be complemented by a 5- floor one (uncompleted). The name of the building derives from the large part of its funding by the estate of Ignacy Paderewski. The characteristic elevations of the building are tying in with the great pianist, resembling the keys of a grand piano, due to the use of vertical black and white elements – whereby the black ones are narrower and recessed and the white ones are broader and protruding. Before that building, recessed from the line of the Avenue, the bust of Paderewski was once situated at a small square.