Dawny Hotel "Cracovia"
The former Hotel Orbis “Cracovia” is a piece of Poland’s modernist boom—built as a large-scale, repeatable solution for mass tourism. Designed by Witold Cęckiewicz for the Polish Travel Office “Orbis,” it rose between 1960 and 1965 on foundations of the unrealized “Dom Związkowca.” That damp ground near a filled-in former Rudawa riverbed forced a change: the hotel was set on a reinforced-concrete slab, and during construction Poland’s hospitality industry used a “large-panel” structural system to speed up the repeated residential floors. When it opened on 22 June 1965, the building stretched to 150 meters and was among the largest and most modern hotels in the country. It offered 510 beds across 309 rooms and 9 suites, alongside a restaurant for about 500 guests, a café, a conference hall, and even a casino. …
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