Womens’ Industrial School (Szkoła Przemysłowa Żeńska)
The Industrial School was erected at today’s Syrokomla St., in the empty grounds of the levelled Austrian fortifications. The City Council developed the school, employing the then famed architect Jan Zawieyski. Unfortunately, due to the outburst of the Great War, the works had to be brought to a halt and they were continued in 1919-1921. The façade of the edifice of four high storeys and 13 axes is reminiscent of the best buildings of the classicising or modernised Viennese Art Nouveau in the vein of Otto Wagner. It has a large court of arms and a horizontal relief in the form of an arabesque. The school was nationalised between the World Wars. It was transferred to another location in 2013. The desolate building was purchased by the Academy of Fine Arts; it is awaiting modernisation and conversion (designed by Krzysztof Kiendra 2017- ).