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Examples of Polish constructivism and international style include numerous housing complexes and modern residential houses built by architects Barbara Brukalska and Stanisław Brukalski (own house at 8 Niegolewskiego Street in Warsaw, WSM housing estate in Żoliborz, Warsaw), Bohdan Lachert (own house at 9 Katowicka Street in Warsaw), Józef ...
These houses often don't have a front door in the front, but rather on the side of the house or even in the back – in the front there's usually just large windows. Typically, Polish houses (both contemporary, more recently-built ones, and older ones built in the 20th century) are surrounded by a fence.
During the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish nobility built manor houses in the countryside.This was a preferred location for one's residence, as the nobility, following the sarmatism ideology, felt contempt for the cities, even though members of this elite also had residences in a major city or town (but, these were large lateral apartments rather than town houses).
The Zakopane style dominated architecture in the Podhale and other Goral Lands for many years. [3] Although the cutoff date for buildings designed in the Zakopane Style of Architecture is usually held to be 1914, many new pensions, villas and highlander homes are built according to the architectural model devised by Witkiewicz to the present day.
The architecture of the 16th-century Polish mannerism is marked by common usage of richly embellished attics of palaces and houses, arcade courtyards and side towers. [11] The church architecture combined the late gothic tradition with renaissance symmetry and mannerist decoration.
Bachorza is a manor house located in the village of Bachorza in Masovian Voivodeship, in central-eastern Poland. It was originally built in the late 17th century, but was subsequently redesigned in the mid-19th century. Bachorza was home to many distinguished Polish families and is a good example of neo-classical Polish manorial architecture.
Keret House is a structure and art installation in Warsaw, Poland.It was designed by the architect Jakub Szczęsny through the architecture firm Centrala, and has been described as the narrowest house in the world, measuring 92 centimetres (3.02 ft) at its thinnest point and 152 centimetres (4.99 ft) at its widest. [1]
The Ksawerów Manor House (Polish: Dwór Ksawerów) is a neoclassical manor house in Warsaw, Poland, located at 13 Ksawerów Street. The building was designed by Wojciech Bobiński, and constructed in 1840, as the residence for nobleperson Ksawer Pusłowski.