Gdynia - City center (Sródmiescie)
 10 LUTEGO, JANEK WISNIEWSKI, ST MARY'S CHURCH, SWIETOJANSKA


Gdynia's city center is the oldest part of the city, but still not older then from the 1920s. Just like the rest of the city, the city center is filled with prewar modernist, funcionalist and monumentalist buildings, many of them grey and in dull style but it is interesting to see the architecture of the era. Few cities have so many buildings in funcionalist (funcis) style. Its main street, 10 Lutego, is an avenue that leads to the seaport, where it extends at Kosciuzko Square into the Southern Pier. Most important buildings are concentrated around this avenue. One of the few buildings in older style in Gdynia is the catholic church.


Skyline of Gdynia seen from the train station with typical modernist residential highrises and a modern church, Wzgórze Św. Maksymiliana, ul. Ujejskiego.

Gdynia Main Station, Dworzec Podmiejski, is where we got off from the train from Sopot and Gdansk. The other tricities are all less then an hour away by regional trains.

  

Posters at 10 Lutego

10 Lutego/Podjazd intersection near the Central Station.

 
Streetscape, 10 Lutego   Functionalist building, 10 Lutego   Wtreetlife, 10 Lutego

Batory shopping center on 10 Utlego is one of the most recent building in central Gdynia.

 

10 Utlego and Batory shopping center

10 Utlego is the main avenue, leading towards the seaport.

 
10 Lutego   10 Lutego   10 Lutego

 
State of former prime minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, 10 Lutego   Another grey modernist building, 10 Lutego   One of the few remaining Polish Fiats, 10 Lutego

6-storey building rebuilt in a more postmodern style.

  

Store on 10 Utlego

 

Swietojanska street with St Mary's Church.

 

Ulica Swietojanska

Gdynia built in LEGO inside a glass exhibition center

St Mary's Church (Kosciol pw Najswietszej Marii Oanny) at Plac Jana Pawla II on Swietojanska street. Built in 1924, this is one of the few buildings in downtown Gdynia built in an older architecture. At the church there is a bookstore dedicated to the former pope, John Paul II (Jan Pawel II), who was Polish.

  

St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church. The alter was built by a local carpenter , the ship reflects Gdynia's seafaring history.

 
The modern annex of St Mary's Church has a primary school. In the background is the Orbis Hotel.   Picture of the two popes, Jan XXIII and John Paul II.   Statue of John Paul II at Plac Jana Pawla II

 
Funcis buildings, Swietojanska street   Swietojanska street   Swietojanska street

 
Teatr Murzyczny, a modern theater   Crucifix at Plac Jana Pawla II   Swietojanska street


St Mary's Church (Kosciol pw Najswietszej Marii Oanny) at Plac Jana Pawla II on Swietojanska street.

 

Statue of John Paul II at Plac Jana Pawla II

New glass buildings, Swietojanska street.


3 Maja street. The cool grey building to the left is Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus , built between 1957 and 1966. The glass tower to the right is the MultiBank.

  

Ulica 3 Maja

Side street to 10 Utlego.


Swietojanska street, Northwards looking towards Plac Kaszubski. The brand new highrise to the right is one of few postmodern buildings in Gdynia.

  

Sea Towers, the tallest skyscraper in the Tricity area.

Nordea is a Scandinavian bank that is very visible in the Tricity area.


10 Utlego, looking towards the high hills in the West.

 

Orbis Hotel, the tallest hotel in Gdynia

Monument, 10 Utlego

Sea Towers is a mixed-use skyscraper is the tallest building in Gdynia and the Tricity area and the second tallest residential building and 10th tallest skyscraper in Poland (2014). It has since its completion just next to the sea in 2009 became the foremost symbol of Gdynia. Sea Towers consist of two buildings connected with a 5-storey skybridge, the tallest one is 125.4m to the roof (143.6m to the antenna) and has 36 floors, the lower one has 28 floors. Even thought it looks much more modern then most other highrises of Gdynia, even this building is built in grey and white colours. More, lower highrises are built around it. The apartments have nice views over the Gdansk Bay.