House of the Association of Care for the Jewish Elderly (now City Welfare Centre – MOPS)
Edward Kreisler, Eng. Jakub Jan Spira
6 Chmielowskiego St.
1940
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Edward Kreisler, an excellent Modernist architect, designed this building, as well as many others. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War and the tragic Holocaust of those citizens of Kraków who were of the Jewish origin, the building never served its actual purpose. However, now it serves a similar one – as a care home. The structure is situated in a quiet corner, close to the boulevards of the Vistula River. The House has a radical, Functionalist composition of interlocking, rectangular masses, with a cantilevered part whose corners are partly glazed. It has been recently modernised.