Słodowa Island
Also known as Wyspa Słodowa
2005
Contemporary
landscape
Wyspa Słodowa, or Malt Island, is a small river island in the heart of Wrocław, set in the Odra between the Old Town and the Nadodrze district. Its Polish name remembers the malthouses (słodownie) that worked the site from the 15th…
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- 2005
ISBA Grupa Projektowa, Leaf Project Studio
- 1975
Two water mills founded in 1242 and 1275 by the Poor Clares and Franciscans survived the Second World War but were blown up in 1975 by city authorities, against conservators' protests.
- 2005-2006
City greenery department rebuilt the island as a riverside park with shoreline terraces, granite-gravel paths, and oak and ash plantings. Documentation prepared by ISBA Design Group (J. Styrylska, T. Boniecki), Leaf Project Studio (P.…
- 2018-2021
The sole surviving 19th-century tenement at Wyspa Słodowa 7 was wrapped in a glazed extension by MVRDV (Netherlands) with Q2Studio between 2018 and 2021, opening as the Concordia Design hub of restaurants, conference rooms and a startup…
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Image credits
- scanned by NobbiP · Public domain
- Dominick.decocco · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 3.0
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