Workers’ Housing Estate at Praska St. (former Czarodziejska St.), Voivodeship Inter-communal Welfare Association
Stefan Piwowarczyk; collaboration: architect Fryderyk Tadanier
Praska St.
1939
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The typical workers’ housing estate, modelled on those built in Germany by architect Ernst May, was built on the right bank of the Vistula River, on the grounds owned by the city. It consisted of two-storey, Cubist blocks of hygienic flats of circa 40 sq. m area each. The blocks were laid out in a linear manner (Zeilenbau). Until 1939, 10 of them, comprising nearly 200 flats, were completed. In the post-war years, one more floor was added to each house and, unfortunately, during the thermal insulations, the original colour scheme of the complex was lost.