“Crooked House”, Sopot, Poland
March 13th, 2006 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest placesThere was a little square and music & coffee house "Kawiaret" before. "Crooked House" construction started in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished.
There are two entries - main at the front of the building from the "Bohaterów Monte Cassino" Street,
and second one from the Haffnera Street.
Building architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.
[You may be also interested in Crooked House Videos]
Below, some more description from Allcon (General Contractor of the building):
"The building is situated in Sopot, at Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street. It is the compact settlement and it is an extension of the already existing shopping and service center which main entrance is at Haffnera 6 Street. Through booth building leads walking duration connecting service center between Haffnera and Monte Cassino Street.
The building with its character refers to fabulous drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. Exterior elevation suits to very popular Monciak’s promenade style. The building with its floors refers to cornices and floors of neighbouring buildings. Colorful stained glass entrances, stone elevation decors and windows framed with sandstone make impression. There is also unusual roof covered with sheet metal with enamel roof tiles coloured with green shades, see blue and Parishian blue, which in the whole makes illusion of dragon scales.
The building was projected as three-storey object with service attic. Communication between three storey assure the lift and allowed staircase freely available. Passage from ground-floor to storey is available thanks to perfectly demonstrated range stairs. Passage from first-floor to second floor leads through reinforced stairs and from second floor to mezzanine through steel stairs which are covered whole by wood."
Read rest of the article and find almost 30 photos of "Crooked House".
There are two Per Dahlberg wall pictures inside "Crooked House" there.
You can find here many small coffe bars and pubs.
Below you can find some inside view photos.
There is also small gallery with some other interesting buildings (pictures below).
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September 26th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Really cool building! It is super inside. I would love to see it someday!!
November 14th, 2010 at 5:11 am
wow……. its really amaizing
i like it