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 popu ...
,
Silesia
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,
Poland
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. It was the second skyscraper built in post-
World War I
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Poland. Finished in 1934 after five years of construction, it made pioneering
Polish use of
steel frame
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construction. Today, Drapacz Chmur is considered the most spectacular and beautiful example of
functionalism in Poland.
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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 Prudential, Warsaw
The Hotel Warszawa is a historic skyscraper hotel in Warsaw, Poland, located on Warsaw Uprising Square along Świętokrzyska Street. Built between 1931 and 1933 in the Art Deco style as the Prudential House, and commonly known as the Prudential, ...
). It was designed by architect Tadeusz Kozłowski and structural engineer Stefan Bryła
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to house Polish Revenue Office employees. The flats are spacious and luxurious. Gustaw Holoubek
Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.
Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Po ...
and Kazimierz Kutz
Kazimierz Julian Kutz (16 February 1929 – 18 December 2018) was a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.
Biography
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were among the building's notable residents after World War II
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.
Drapacz Chmur is located at 15 Żwirki i Wigury Street.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Katowice
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Katowice, in descending order.
Tallest buildings
Under construction
Proposed
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Poland
References
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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
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