Radio Krakow
Radio Krakow building is the realised winning competition entry. The characteristic shape of the structure is commonly called “the bucket”. The massive drum in the shape of an inverted truncated cone situated on pilotis dominates the street crossing but it also is a solution to a difficult corner at the verge of the Modern Movement architecture from the period between the two wars and the Late Modern, 1960’s one. This Neo-Modernist or rather Neo-Expressive, austere building is discerned by small, square and point-like windows – apertures situated in the uniform mass of greenish granite. At the very corner of the as if monolith there is a large window of the newsroom. The massive top is juxtaposed with the glazed recess of the freely planned ground floor of the building. In the not very large courtyard there are open-air concerts.