New Life of Postindustrial Factories in Bialystok – Chosen Aspects

Abstract

The revitalization is one of the most essential processes associated with transformations of urban structures in the 20th and 21st centuries. Revitalization actions, carried out in Polish cities at the beginning of the 21st century, concern mainly postindustrial areas and buildings. The most known revitalization operations in Poland have been carried out in Lodz and Poznan. The authors of the article will present analyses concerning revitalization problems of some old factories in Bialystok – former significant centre of the textile industry in Poland in the end of 19th and first half of the 20th century. The authors will present significant architectural, spatial and economical effects of such transformations.
 The research was carried out in the frame of scientific project No. S/WA/2/2016 at the Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and financed from science research sources by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The Truth in Architecture as a Synthesis of Material and Ideas – Brick Architecture of Białystok

“…An example of an implementation from that period is, among others: the factory complex of Eugeniusz Becker Society of Białystok Manufacture at Świętojańska Street. Some buildings from this assumption have survived to this day -also the most outstanding of them, the so-called Mercury building, they were incorporated into the revitalization project of the factory into the shopping mall Alfa (2007−2008, design by architect M. Kuryłowicz) [Tokajuk, Tokajuk, 2019]. The first factory buildings were built in 1883, but the so-called Mercury building was built as a finished goods warehouse in 1911.…”