Tag: postsocialism

• April 3, 2017

  Falowiec: landscape of communism in Gdansk, Poland.

  I have recently been walking around “Falowiec” (form the Polish word fala, wave; plural: falowce) in Gdansk, the longest building in Europe. It is a block of flats characterised by its length and wavy shape. This type of building was built in Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s in the Polish city of Gdańsk,…

• April 13, 2016

  Gentrification of a postsocialist old centre in Gdansk, Poland

  Yesterday, walking from industrial area in the surrounding of Gdansk until the historic old center. It was worth photographing the difference in terms of housing in hardly half a kilometer, as well as the contrast between old industrial sites by the river and the new real state that is being raised. The river side is…