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Modernist Center of Gdynia. Śródmieście ( [ɕrudˈmʲɛɕt͡ɕɛ] meaning 'city centre', ' downtown ') is the central borough ( dzielnica) of the city of Gdynia. It borders the following districts: Oksywie, Obłuże, Pogórze (all three from the north), Chylonia, Leszczynki, Grabówek (all three from the west), Forest Plots and Kamienna ...
Gdynia operates one of only three trolleybus systems in Poland, alongside Lublin and Tychy. Today there are 18 trolleybus lines in Gdynia with a total length of 96 km. The fleet is modern and consists of Solaris Trollino cars. There is also a historic line, connecting city centre with a district of Orłowo operated by five retro trolleybuses ...
The tower of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium (Y. Lindegren & T. Jäntti, built in 1934–38) In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function. An international functionalist architecture movement emerged in the wake of World War I, as part of the wave of Modernism.
A large number of Danzig Poles voted for the Catholic Centre Party instead. In 1921, Poland began to develop the city of Gdynia, then a midsized fishing town. This completely new port north of Danzig was established on territory awarded in 1919, the so-called Polish Corridor.
The nearby village of Gdynia was conceived as the new primary economy hub and a modernist city centre was built as its core in the 1920s and 1930s. In that time, the population grew from 1200 to 120,000 and the city became a symbol of modernisation and the maritime ambitions of the young state. Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdrój: Lower Silesia: 2019
Migration museum. Website. Official website. The Emigration Museum (in Polish: Muzeum Emigracji) is a museum located in the city of Gdynia, Poland. Opened to the public on 16 May 2015, it showcases 200 years of Polish emigrations, from the 19th century to modern days. It is located in the former Maritime Station, which from the 1930s until 1979 ...
This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting. Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon Guggenheim Museum completed in 1959. Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts and music, that emphasized experimentation, abstraction and subjective experience.
Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot. Tricity, or Tri-City (Polish: Trójmiasto; Polish pronunciation: [trujˈmʲastɔ], Kashubian: Trzëgard; Kashubian pronunciation:; German: Dreistadt), is an urban area in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, consisting of three contiguous coastal cities in Pomerelia forming a row on the coastline of the Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, namely the cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Sopot ...