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K1 (building)
K1 (formerly Cracovia Business Center), also ''Błękitek'', is a commercial building in Kraków, Poland, at 1 Pokoju Avenue, near the Grzegórzeckie Roundabout. It is a 20-story building, housing offices for Bank Pekao and other companies. It is 105 metres high, which makes it the tallest office building and the second tallest building in Kraków. History The history of the building dates back to the early 1970s. Plans were made to construct a larger number of similarly tall skyscrapers in the Grzegórzki district (referred to as "Kraków's Manhattan"). Apart from today's K1, only the structurally and formally similar Unity Tower (formerly: NOT Office Building) was built. Its construction began in 1975, was halted in 1979, and resumed in 2016, finally being completed in 2020. In 1972, the construction of the skyscraper began based on a design by architect Janusz Ingarden, intended as the headquarters of the Workers' Publishing Cooperative "Prasa" (hence the abbreviated name R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 (2023), with approximately 8 million additional people living within a radius. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596, and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Kraków Old Town, Old Town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the world's first sites granted the status. The city began as a Hamlet (place), hamlet on Wawel Hill and was a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. In 1038, it became the seat of King of Poland, Polish monarchs from the Piast dynasty, and subsequently served as the centre of administration under Jagiellonian dynasty, Jagiellonian kings and of the Polish–Lithuan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Pekao
Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna, commonly using the shorter name Bank Pekao S.A., is a universal bank and currently the second largest bank in Poland with its headquarters in Warsaw. The Italian bank UniCredit used to own 59% of the company. It sold the bank in December 2016. Now Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń owns 20% of the company, Polish Development Fund 12.80%, UniCredit 6.28% and others 60.94%. The bank was founded in 1929 by the Ministry of Treasury as a national bank, mainly to provide financial services to Poles living abroad. In 1939 the bank had branches in virtually every capital city of countries where Poles lived. The full name "Polska Kasa Opieki" may be translated literally as "Polish Bank of Aid", and the popular form "Pekao" sounds out the acronym "PKO". History Formative years In 1929, the CEO of Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności, Henryk Gruber, observed that there was a demand for a bank that could provide financial services to the eight million Pole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grzegórzki, Kraków
Grzegórzki is one of 18 dzielnica, districts of Kraków, located in the central part of the city. The name ''Grzegórzki'' comes from a village of same name that is now a part of the district. According to Central Statistical Office (Poland), the Central Statistical Office data, the district's area is and 28 960 people inhabit Grzegórzki. History The oldest part of the district is Wesoła, stretching along Lubicz and Kopernika Streets, which originated as a suburb around St Nicolas' Church on today's Kopernika Street. Situated next to it, Grzegórzki is a former village, incorporated into Krakow in 1910. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century it was heavily industrialised. A strike in 1936 at the Semperit factory was bloodily suppressed, resulting in 8 deaths. In the northern part of the district, mainly along Beliny-Prażmowskiego and Brodowicza streets, the Officers' housing estate was built from 1925. From the end of the 20th century, the district graduall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Tower
Unity Tower (commonly nicknamed the Skeletor ( ) prior to completion) is a 102.5 metre high-rise building located in Kraków, Poland. Unity Tower is located near the Mogilskie Roundabout (''Rondo Mogilskie'') and Kraków University of Economics. It is the second-tallest building in Kraków after K1. Due to the skeletal appearance of the unfinished building from 1970s to 2010s; the building gained the unofficial nickname Skeletor. The construction finally resumed in 2016 and the construction work of Unity Centre was completed on 30 September 2020. History Originally, it was intended to become the regional office of the Main Technical Organization ('' Naczelna Organizacja Techniczna, NOT'') and be named the NOT Tower. The construction of the building was started in 1975, but stopped permanently in 1979 because of economic constraints and political unrest which later culminated in the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981. Due to the skeletal appearance of the unfini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Music In Kraków
The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków () is a music school, conservatory located in central Kraków, Poland. It is the ''alma mater'' of the renowned Polish contemporary composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who was also its rector for 15 years. The academy is the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Adam Harasiewicz) as well as a few further prize-winners among its alumni. Historical background The academy was founded in 1888 by the eminent Polish composer Władysław Żeleński (musician), Władysław Żeleński thanks to his artistic connections and patronage of Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, a concert pianist and former pupil of Frédéric Chopin. Until 1945 it operated as a College or university school of music, conservatory under the name of ''Conservatory of the Music Society'' or the ''Cracow Conservatory''. During the partitions of Poland, as the region of Lesser Poland and Kraków w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krakus Mound
Krakus Mound or Kopiec Krakusa in Polish language, Polish, also called the Krak Mound, is a tumulus located in the Podgórze Districts of Kraków, district of Kraków, Poland; thought to be the resting place of Kraków's mythical founder, the legendary King Krakus. It is located on Lasota Hill, approximately south of kraków Old Town, Kraków's city centre, at an altitude of , with a base diameter of and a height of . Together with nearby Wanda Mound, it is one of Kraków's two prehistoric mounds as well as the oldest man-made structure in Kraków. Nearby are also two other non-prehistoric, man-made mounds, Kościuszko Mound, constructed in 1823, and Piłsudski's Mound, completed in 1937. at e-Krakow.com ''(in Polish)'' These four make up Kraków's four memorial mounds. History The age and the original purpose of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vistulan Boulevards, Kraków
The Vistulan Boulevards are historical hydraulic boulevards used for flood management in Kraków, Poland. The boulevards are structured from retaining walls (an upper, high and lower which is used to channel the river channel), allowing the boulevards to perform a river port function. The nineteenth- and twentieth-century boulevards are used for flood management, namely during the floods of 1970, 1997, and 2010. The boulevards around the river channel of the Vistula and the Rudawa are part of an area of parkland, being a popular recreational area for Cracovians and tourists alike. The boulevards are pedestrianised, with bicycle routes. Gallery File:Inflancki boulevard, Krakow, Poland.jpg, Inflanty Boulevard seen from Retmański Bridge File:Krakow kosciol 20070930 1504.jpg, Church at Skałka and water taxis on the Vistula The Vistula (; ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
