In our series on the architecture of Gdynia's districts, we return to the Orłowo district, proposing a route through selected buildings realised mainly in the interwar period in the spirit of modernism. We would like to invite you to one of the last Archi-Walks of the ‘Gdynia Modernism Route’ this year.
Architectural walk entitled: ‘The essence of modernism of the Orłowo district part 1’.
Introduction:
Orłowo, one of the youngest districts of pre-war Gdynia, which thrived for several years as an independent seaside summer resort (Orłowo Morskie), is primarily associated with summer villas and guesthouses tucked away among the lush greenery located between the seafront and the busy Zwycięstwa Avenue. Orłowo, however, is much more extensive. This time we invite you to take a walk through the streets of Orłowo ‘behind the tracks’, laid out according to a design by Adam Kuncewicz and Adam Paprocki for the suburb of... Mały Kack.
A significant part of this area was purchased by the Official Housing and Building Cooperative in Gdynia, on whose plots both big-city tenements and luxury villas were built. They were inhabited by entrepreneurs, builders, architects, clerks, railwaymen and naval officers, and were designed for them both by prominent representatives of Gdynia's architectural community, such as Maksymilian Zuske, Stanisław Garliński, Stanisław Żwirski or Gustaw Handwerger, and by Józef Kirkor and Włodzimierz Łącki, who were less associated with Gdynia.
- Starting point: Górnośląski Square, Gdynia Orłowo
- Deadline: 19 October 2024 | g. 10:30
- Conducted by: Robert Chrzanowski | free entry
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- admission free