Metropolis in Red

From Metropolis Collection

Designer: Kamila Gawrońska-Kasperska

Photo: Matyas Misetics
Model: Michaela G.

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Café Baltique

ZUS building. Gdynia, Poland

Arch. Roman Piotrowski
1936

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Drapacz Chmur

Drapacz Chmur (English: Skyscraper) is a historical building in Katowice, Silesia, Poland. It was the first skyscraper built in post-World War I Poland. Finished in 1934 after five years of construction, it made pioneering Polish use of steel frame construction. Today, Drapacz Chmur is considered the most spectacular and beautiful example of functionalism in Poland.

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 highest building in the country. It was designed by architect Tadeusz Kozłowski and structural engineer Stefan Bryła to house Polish Revenue Office employees.

Info: Wiki (EN, PL)

Photo by Lestat (Jan Mehlich) @ Wikimedia Commons

Polish Art

3d exhibition of the State Arts & Crafts School, Krakow
1926
Artist: Anna Birtus-Seifert

Sea Eagle

ORP Orzel, 1939

Orzel means eagle in English. The boat, built in the Netherlands for the Polish Navy, arrived in Poland on February 7, 1939.
She famously escaped the German forces in September 1939 and reached England where she served during the war.
Orzel (commander Jan Grudzinski) sailed on her seventh patrol on May 23, 1940. She was sent to the central region of the North Sea. A wireless message was sent from Rosyth on the 1st and 2nd of June to the Orzel, with an order to change her patrol area and proceed for the Skagerrak. No signals had been received from the Orzel since her departure and on the 5th of June the order was sent for her to return. She failed to acknowledge reception of this signal (as well as the other signals) and she never came back to her base. The 8th of June, 1940, has been officially accepted as the day of the Orzel's loss.

Text: U-boat.net (click for full version)
More here (EN) and here (PL, Google translation available)

Polish Armored Train

Smialy (Courageous)
September 1939

Literary Bulletin

by Tadeusz Gronowski

New Port

By Stefan Norblin

1925

Students' Week

Artist: Jan Mucharski
1927

Polish Tyres

Tadeusz Gronowski, 1923

Oasis

by Tadeusz Gronowski
1926

Polish St(r)eamline

Pm36-1 locomotive (1936)
with a streamlined fairing designed at the Warsaw University of Technology

Source (Wiki, EN)

Green St(r)eam

Polish (ex-German) Pm3 steam locomotive in Warsaw

Harvester Remixed

Directed by Iwo Zaniewski (2008)

via Steampunkopedia

Europe's Second Tallest

A study for Prudential Building at Napoleon Square
Warsaw, Poland
Designed by Marcin Weinfeld, Stefan Bryła, Wenczesław Poniż for an insurance company, it was 66 m tall. Construction started in 1931 and was completed in 1934. Since 1937 there was a TV transmitter mast on the roof. Severely damaged in 1944, Prudential was rebuilt after the war.
Now it houses Hotel Warszawa.

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Polish Poster

Polish Monster Bomber

LWS-4 Zubr. 1933
Info here
Originally posted by gamz @ Dieselpunk LJ