Drapacz Chmur ( en, Skyscraper) is a historical building in

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

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. It was the second skyscraper built in post-

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Poland. Finished in 1934 after five years of construction, it made pioneering

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use of

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construction. Today, Drapacz Chmur is considered the most spectacular and beautiful example of functionalism in Poland.Wojewódzki Program Opieki nad Zabytkami w województwie śląskim na lata 2010−2013
www.slaskie.pl ccessed 2019-04-06/ref> The building has seventeen stories, fourteen above the ground, and contained one of the first garbage chutes in Poland. It is 60 m tall and until 1955, it was the second highest building in the country (after

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). It was designed by architect Tadeusz Kozłowski and structural engineer Stefan Bryła to house Polish Revenue Office employees. The flats are spacious and luxurious.

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and

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were among the building's notable residents after

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. Drapacz Chmur is located at 15 Żwirki i Wigury Street.

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Skyscrapers in Katowice Commercial buildings completed in 1934 Skyscraper office buildings in Poland Modernist architecture in Poland 1934 establishments in Poland {{Poland-struct-stub

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