As reported in the authoritative release, Zatras' Warsaw housing property located on Żoliborz was entered in the registry of immovable monuments. The decision was announced by the Mazowiecki Provincial Monument Conservationist Marcin Dawidowicz. The entry included 42 objects erected from 1960 to 1972, which were created as part of the task of architect Jack J. Nowicki.
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The Zatras settlement in Warsaw was listed in the registry of monuments. It's a fresh cult of modernism.
The registration includes 42 facilities and including 37 residential buildings, school, kindergarten, creative work house, trade and service pavilions and garages. The borders of the historical area mark the streets of Broniewski, Elbląska, Przasnyska and Krasiński. According to a communication published on social media, the historical construction squad of the WSM Settlement Zatrasie is an perfect example of "a late modernist housing property with a homogeneous compositional building, forming a spatially related group of buildings".
The settlement belongs to a group of post-war monuments, which, rejecting the previously utilized decade of socialist stylistics for modernist minimalism and thoughtful functional form, and combining pre-war traditions with the needs of the contemporary audience, became an crucial architectural accomplishment on the Warsaw scale.
- explained Marcin Dawidowicz, quoted by Property News. Despite years of changes and modernization, the property has retained its unique character, which is of conservation interest. The most attention is given to the spatial-view relations between buildings and their first shapes. The Zatrasie settlement is distinguished by its concept as well as structure and applied solutions against the background of modern objects. All due to the fact that at the minute specified techniques are no longer used. The entry in the registry of monuments aims to defend this valuable architectural heritage of the erstwhile and present Warsaw.
Zatrasie is simply a "important link in the improvement of post-war construction". From now on, it's protected.
The settlement's construction in the 1960s began from the northeast corner, then focused on the confederate and western parts. The first 3 colonies were erected from gasobeton, according to the first design. After 1964, however, crucial changes were made. Building tallness increased and large plate technology was used. In time, the task was besides adapted to the alleged Warsaw University unification implemented by the Ministry of Construction. yet the construction work was completed in 1972. A full of 37 residential buildings and a school, a public kindergarten, a creative work house, service and commercial pavilions, transformers and garages were erected. On the another hand, the construction of cinema and the social home was abandoned.
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It is worth noting that these are not the only objects from the 1960s and 1970s that rise the interest of conservationists. The registry of monuments besides includes:
building of the erstwhile Hungarian Trade Exhibition erected in 1972 - decision dated 22.02.2019,
Warsaw Central Station erected in 1972-1974 - decision dated 24.07.2019
housing estates specified as Prague I, Prague Li and Muranów.
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