Gdynia Cinema at Tuwima Street. Once luxurious, shot down and to be demolished, unfortunately… Camera: Samsung GX10, HDR
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The Owl at the top of frontal of the Gdynia cinema in Lodz, Poland. Previously named as Odeon built in 1908 at Tuwima Street (formerly Przejazd Street), the cinema used to be one of the most luxurious cinemas in Lodz. In 1929 the cinema was named Gdynia (after the one of the most modern Polish cities built entirely by the Polish hands from the small village, known also as Gdingen or Gottenhaffen). In 1935 the cinema was renamed to Metro. That name survived till 1945 when the old name - Gdynia - was brought back. In the communist time the cinema lost its splendor and luxury and became the non stop cinema (when the films were played non stop over again). The cinema bankrupted in the middle of nineteen-nineties, when many small cinemas were shot down (due to the massive popularity of VHS). The owl used to have shiny eyes (bulbs) and it was registered in the “Monster Book” - the book of the monsters of Art Novou (secession) architecture. The owl represents whole Poland. Camera: Samsung GX10
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I wasn’t sure which one to chose, BW or colour HDR. Lodz, Poland, Ernest Waver’s Factory at Kopernika Street (ulica Kopernika) No3. The factory tower in details. Camera: Samsung GX10, HDR
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Lodz, Poland, Kopernika Street No3 (the corner of Kopernika and Wolczanska streets), the haberdashery factory of Ernest Waver, designed by Edward Creutzburg, built in 1882. After death of Ernest Waver in 1930 the factory became a property of one his directors - Gustaw Patberg and Gustaw Treibe who continuing production through the nineteen-thirties, through the war time and finally to the early post war time when they founded a new enterprise called “United Works of Haberdashery Industry” soon nationalized became property of a communist state and renamed to Works of Haberdashery Industry “Lenora”. After the bankruptcy of the factory (as the almost all textile industry in Lodz) the buildings housed the Centre of Creative Activities “Forum Fabricum”. Currently new owner is turning the building into the business centre. Camera: Samsung GX10, HDR, distorted perspective.
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