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Dworzec PKS w Kielcach jako przykład polskiej myśli modernistycznej

Publication date: 09.05.2016

Housing Environment, 2015, 14/2015, pp. 106 - 117

Authors

Edyta Banachowska
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning ,Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology
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Kielce Bus Station (PKS Station) as an example of Polish modernist thought

Abstract

After the World War II all cities granted the rank of the province capitals, throve becoming centres of an industrial plants and factories. Due to newly coming work opportunities, residents of local villages and small towns headed to the cities on a large scale. They partly settled in working-class housing estates and partly commuted with public transport. Such a development of the city influenced the decision on the need for constructing a bus station in 1970s. Thanks to assumptions accepted by the designers it was possible to create an extraordinary for contemporary times object of innovative communications system, unusual composition, modern structure and the most modern technical solutions available in the country. The object, thanks to its unique architecture, quickly became a calling card of Kielce and pride of residents. In the period of transformation, both the growth of industry and the public transport slowed down. Not renovated object started to deteriorate and the enterprise along with the station was sold. Kielce Bus Station admittedly avoided the fate of many other excellent architectural works of the post-war modernism which were knocked down or rebuilt. However, farther a decline of this object, constituting the extraordinary cultural value, is progressing.

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Information: Housing Environment, 2015, 14/2015, pp. 106 - 117

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:
Kielce Bus Station (PKS Station) as an example of Polish modernist thought
Polish:

Dworzec PKS w Kielcach jako przykład polskiej myśli modernistycznej

Authors

Department of Architecture and Urban Planning ,Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology

Published at: 09.05.2016

Article status: Open

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Edyta Banachowska (Author) - 100%

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Polish, English

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