PKO Postal Savings Bank (Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności, later PKO BP Bank)
The PKO edifice, located just behind the Bazar Polski, on a triangular plot, fills the entire urban block. Its monumental, five-storey mass, rounded at the front (from the side of Wielopole St.) is perfectly exposed along the Dietla St. It is articulated by means of massive, Corinthian half-columns; it is replete with a decorative frieze, lesenes, an expressive cornice, pinnacles. It is considered to be an example of Neo-Classical architecture. Following the completion, the building was criticised for its alleged imitative character, copying the architecture of Sankt Petersburg. Nevertheless, it is an imposing building – both as an architectural gesture and because of the quality of its expression, not to mention the level of execution. The interior with the rotunda of the main hall is unprecedented in Kraków.