Three ceramic mosaics decorating the facades of two buildings on the campus of the Warsaw Medical University have been officially entered in the register of monuments. The decision was made by the Mazovian Regional Conservator of Monuments, appreciating their artistic and historical value.
The works of art placed on the walls of the buildings of the complex of the former Central Clinical Hospital in Warsaw are located on A. Pawińskiego Street. The buildings were erected in the 1960s and 1970s, a period when mosaics were a popular decorative motif used both in interiors and on the facades of buildings. Today, the area is part of the campus of Warsaw Medical University – the Banach Campus.
The complex was developed as a modern medical unit with a strong emphasis on architecture and aesthetics. Mosaics have been placed on buildings belonging to the hospital’s technical facilities, including the so-called animal shed and the adjacent hydrophore room, which houses, among other things, boiler rooms and transformers. Both are included in the 1970 inventory documentation held at the Department of Architecture for the Ochota District. The authorship of both the buildings and the mosaic compositions themselves has not yet been established.

The value and beauty of the mosaics was already recognised a year ago. In June 2024, on the initiative of the Association for the Protection of Post-War Architecture, their cleaning was carried out. The works of art had remained neglected for years, scrawled with graffiti and partially obscured by wild vegetation. The cleaning campaign was initiated by Kalina Kaczmarek, who runs the styledoctor.pl profile. By announcing the event on social media, she managed to gather a large group of volunteers who, within a few hours, cleaned the historic mosaics, restoring them to their former appearance.
The compositions on Pawińskiego Street are characterised by their abstract form and the juxtaposition of intense primary colours, complemented by subtle tonal transitions. They are reminiscent of the work of painters such as Stefan Gierowski and Wojciech Fangor, who used motifs of waves and circles to build optical effects. The mosaics on the façade of the hydropower plant, which feature a solar motif, exemplify the cosmos and nature inspiration characteristic of the mid-1970s. Thanks to the use of a variety of ceramic tile colours, the repetitive arrangement of the decoration gained individual expression and high artistic value.
source: Mazovian Provincial Conservator of Monuments
photos from the cleaning action: Marcin Mazur moze_byc