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Tag: 2015 Poland

  • Polish Architecture in Buildings

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    Polish Architecture in Buildings

    In contrast to the Soviet architecture, Polish Architecture offers more colour and a softer more comforting feel; it includes a context or environment for its buildings.

  • Soviet Architecture in Statues

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    Soviet Architecture in Statues

    The statues outside the Palace of Culture and Science, like the reliefs posted earlier, reflect a form of Socialist Realism intended to covey the communist values of the proletariat.  Against the backdrop of the Palace, a sense of control was pretty intense.  

  • Soviet Architecture in Buildings

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    Soviet Architecture in Buildings

    The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw was conceived as a “gift from the Soviet people to the Polish nation”, and was completed in 1955.  Architecturally, it is a mix of Stalinist architecture, also known as Socialist Classicism, and Polish historicism inspired by American art deco skyscrapers. While it did remind me of some of…

  • Soviet Architecture in Relief

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    Soviet Architecture in Relief

    Warsaw is another European city devastated–turned to rubble–during the second war. With a pre-war population of 1.5 million; 30,000 remained at the end.   Images for Warsaw 1945 offers some sense.   The old city was rebuilt remarkably well.  Other parts were replaced with an architecture reflecting the message and concepts of the conquering heroes; the Soviets. Honest…

  • Old Glass

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    Old Glass

    We climbed the Tower on the grounds of Wawel Castle.  The glass in many of the tower windows, I assume, was very old and had deformed with age.  It provided an artistic view of the outside.