‘Forum’ Hotel
The building, of Late Modern and Brutalism aesthetics, has a curved elevation and it is partly raised from the ground in order to allow for the vista of the Wawel Hill and the church-cum-convent On the Rock. It is one of the few representatives of that style in Krakow. Its controversial location does not diminish the value of architec-ture which is a manifestation of the loftiest aesthetics of that period and therefore it deserves respect — as a testimony of style and architectural capability. Dynamic tectonics of the elevations was achieved by means of the rhythm of protruding rooms-loggias, protrusion of the ground floor block along with its underground as well as through the recessing of the highest floor in the form of a floating structure. It is one of the most important examples of realisations of mature, ‘heavy’ Late Modern architecture of the 1980s.