Slaskie

23rd July 2010

"...they find it easier to knock it down than to clean it.”

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Katowice architects and art historians are up in arms at the reconstruction of Katowice’s main station, which work began on this week. The station is a remnant of the communist period’s love of concrete, in the modernist brutalist style widely applied the 1970s.

“We have to show that this is serious, that we won’t let the bulldozers into the station. This could be another Rospuda,” declared architect Robert Konieczny, head of Katowice’s Society of Polish Architects. “They’re trying to persuade us it’s a choice between filth and a shopping centre. We can’t tolerate this,” he continued.
Mr Konieczny is backed by Dr Irma Kozina, an art historian from Slask University. “O ...

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