Housing estate of the ZUPU in Lwów
Roman Piotrowski, collaboration: architect Wacław Nowakowski
9, 11, 12, 13 Fałata St. (corner of B. Prusa St., once Słoneczna St.)
1931
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These are yet another buildings funded by the ZUPU in Krakow, in this case in the then developing Zwierzyniec district. On the contrary to the classic street frontages consisting of tenement buildings at the former Słoneczna St. – a Functionalist complex in the Zeilenbau style coined at the Bauhaus, was built. It was designed by a famed Modernist architect. Four-and five-storey blocks of flats, with elongated, rectangular masses articulated with rounded balconies at the edges, have enjoyable geometry, good scale and excellent design of small, affordable flats. In spite of the recent thermal insulation resulting in ill-chosen colours, they are still an exemplary architecture.