housing developments Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/housing-developments/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:05:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png housing developments Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/housing-developments/ 32 32 Housing Developments in Interwar Lviv: Własna Strzecha https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-wlasna-strzecha/ https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-wlasna-strzecha/#respond Sat, 23 May 2020 11:05:01 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=8253 Location: 1-39 Panasa Myrnoho St. (formerly ul. Własna Strzecha)Built for: City officials and civil servantsYears of construction: 1928-1932Architects: Władysław Klimczak, Maksymilian Koczur, and M. KolbuszewskiStyle: Villas in Polish Manor style (styl dworkowy) After overcoming World War I and the financial crisis, housing developments (often called “colonies”) started to be built […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-wlasna-strzecha/feed/ 0 Housing Developments in Interwar Lviv: The Professors’ Colony https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-complexes-in-interwar-lviv-the-professors-colony/ https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-complexes-in-interwar-lviv-the-professors-colony/#respond Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:02:37 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6070 Location: Main streets – Iryny Wilde St., Nishchynskoho St., Mizhhirna St.Built for: EducatorsFunded by: Society for Lending and Construction for Employees of Secondary and Higher Educational Institutions in LvivYears of construction: 1935-Architects: Tadeusz Wróbel, Leopold Karasiński, and Maximillian KochuraStyle: Functionalism (Modernism) After overcoming World War I and the financial crisis, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-complexes-in-interwar-lviv-the-professors-colony/feed/ 0 Housing Developments in Interwar Lviv: The Officers’ Colony https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-officers-colony/ https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-officers-colony/#respond Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:48:45 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6065 Location: Chereshneva St., Samiylenka St. and Oleny Pchilky St.Built for: Polish military officersYears of construction: 1923-1931Architects: W. Jakimowski, R. Voelpel, T. Wróbel, W. LembergenConcept: Garden City (Ebenezer Howard’s vision as promoted by Ignacy Drexler)Style: Polish Manor Style (styl dworkowy), some elements of Art Deco After overcoming World War I and […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-officers-colony/feed/ 0 Housing Developments in Interwar Lviv: Vlasna Khata Building Cooperative https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-vlasna-khata-building-cooperative/ https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-vlasna-khata-building-cooperative/#respond Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:36:13 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6432 Location: 26-40 Piskova St., 22-38 Kharkivska St., 3-7 Ostrozkoho St.Built for: Vlasna Khata Ukrainian building cooperative Years of construction: 1927-1929Architect: Oleksandr PezhanskyiStyle: Modernism (functionalism) with elements of Art Deco After overcoming World War I and the financial crisis, housing developments (often called “colonies”) started to be built in Lviv for […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/housing-developments-in-interwar-lviv-vlasna-khata-building-cooperative/feed/ 0 Kastelówka: Lviv’s First Attempt at a ‘Garden City’ https://forgottengalicia.com/kastelowka-lvivs-first-attempt-at-a-garden-city/ https://forgottengalicia.com/kastelowka-lvivs-first-attempt-at-a-garden-city/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:20:38 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5844 Location: Area around Kotliarevskoho St. & north-east part of Chuprynky St.Years of construction: 1880s-beginning of 1900s Main architects & initiators: Julian Zachariewicz & Ivan LevynskyiConcept: Garden CityStyle: Villas – Late Historicism, Neo-Romanticism, Early Secession In the 1880s, two prominent Lviv architects Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) initiated the […]

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