MEDIA
Torun

Sickness Insurance Funds - Health Palace (arch. Kazimierz Ulatowski) - Art Deco motifs. Forest Stewardship Palace (arch. Kazimierz Ulatowski) and Art Deco bears. Nicolaus Copernicus University’s Collegium Minus (arch. Jerzy Wierzbicki) - an avant-garde building called Harmonica. The Vesta Insurance Society’s residential house (arch. K. and W. Sylwestrowicz) - this house was used in 1945 to accomodate lecturers of the Stefan Batory University who emigrated from Vilnius. The Seashore Horticulture and Industry Exhibition Hall (arch. Kazimierz Ulatowski), at the time the largest hall in Poland, whose white walls, according to the press of the time, “beautifully reflect the colourful carpet of flowers and green trees”. In Toruń, we will look for similarities with Kaunas. More than 500 modernist buildings were built here between the wars. The long, narrow building of the Municipal Office and the Savings Bank looks like a spaceship landing on the edge of the old town. The top floor of the Vesta Insurance Building offers the most beautiful panorama of Toruń. We will visit the restorer Anna Kosicka. Her father, a history lecturer at Vilnius Stefan Batory University, was forced to leave Vilnius for Toruń in 1945. “My father, a Polish historian, longed terribly for Vilnius, but he had to leave.”

What people say
from the eye and from the heart
dr. Michał Pszczółkowski,
arhitektūras vēsturnieks

Apmeklēsim Slimnieku kases. Šīs kāpnes un saules motīvs virsū – tas veselības uzlabošanas, izdziedināšanas simbols. Saule aust un riet, nākamajā dienā atkal tas pats, tātad notiek nepārtraukts process.

dr. Anna Kosicka,
restauratore

Ja es nebūtu iesaistīta mantojuma saglabāšanā, es arī vēlētos kaut ko mainīt, jo tas ir tik jaukāk un ērtāk. Tikai es uz to skatos ar cieņu un labi apsveru - izmest vai atjaunot.

dr. Michał Pszczółkowski,
arhitektūras vēsturnieks

Ēkas it kā ,,virmotu gaisā“. Modernismam ar renesanses arhitektūru ir daudz kopīga. Tas ir kaut kas īpašs, vecā shēma ir lauzta, izveidota jauna. Es domāju, ka Koperniks justos labi, modernisma arhitektūras ieskauts

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