Close-up of a heavy plant machinery - hydraulic shears. See description field.

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The railway main hall was a high quality piece of architecture, designed by recognised Polish architects of the mentioned period, the famous Warsaw Tigers: Waclaw Klyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzynski and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki. Its construction was worked out by a world-renowned engineer Waclaw Zalewski. The Brutalist architecture of the hall’s pillars was characterized by exposed rough concrete revealing the textures of the wooden forms in which it had been poured. Neinver, the investor which holds a majority stake in the project, committed oneself to reconstruct the pillars corresponding to the works on the main hall of the Railway Station had started on 22nd of December 2010 and and finished, on 11th of January 2011.

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Size: 3550px × 2366px
Location: Katowice, Poland.
Photo credit: © Janusz Gniadek / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: architecture, dark, day, demolition, destruction, equipment, heavy, hydraulic, industrial, industry, iron, light, machine, machinery, pillar, shadow, shears, silhouette, station, steel, sunlight, tool, work