The residential towers in Gliwice are part of a project to redevelop the site of the former Hugo Scobel Brewery. The developer plans to revitalise the area, create recreational spaces and erect two residential towers. For the time being, however, there is no planning permission for their construction.
The bold project to revitalise the historic area and modern high-rise buildings was prepared by Frantagroup Architects. The concept they prepared was to be one of the most important projects realised in Gliwice. The new arrangement of the site will remain for the time being only in visualisations.
Consent for the construction of high-rise buildings was not given by councillors. The City Council rejected the changes to the zoning plan. The decision was taken on 6 February after a two-hour debate. This means that buildings no higher than 24 metres can be built on the plot. This will significantly reduce the potential of the planned development, fewer flats will be built and the buildings will take up a larger area of land that was supposed to be used for common areas and greenery.
Two 100-metre-high skyscrapers were to be built on Piwna Street. These are modern buildings with a rhythmic façade and a simple division. Their cascading layout is intended to allow the creation of green terraces on several levels. As part of the revitalised Hugo Scobel Brewery, the buildings were to become a new landmark of Gliwice. The investor, Trust Investment, planned that the redeveloped area would be an attractive place where the residents of Gliwice would be able to live, work, meet in restaurants, cafés and relax in a green area.
In each of our projects, we try to make decisions that lead us to prioritise people and their needs. This is why we have finally decided that the contemporary development of Gliwice will be created not as a typical city-dense private matter, but as a development idea in the spirit of a “resting machine”, focused on providing and creating human-friendly spaces. It was extremely important, but also valuable for the future of the site, to save the remaining adaptable parts of the Hugo Scobel Brewery. Our aim was to introduce new functions into the walls of the Brewhouse and Malt House – to fill them with new content again, different from their original industrial role, which will attract the residents of Gliwice thirsty for a pulsating urban life. In place of the devastated buildings and wild car parks, inaccessible to the community, we created the concept of a green zone open to all – even a small fragment of the city as a guideline value for the site, and linked it with pedestrian and bicycle routes to the surrounding neighbourhood. On the west side with the railway station and on the east side with the planned high-rise office complex. At the same time, the modern buildings have been elevated to give the street level a space conducive to human interaction, while giving it a green, urban and park-like character, ” says Maciej Franta, architect at Franta Group.
The area would be pedestrian and bicycle friendly. Cars would use underground car parks. Instead of streets for cars, the plan was to create green spaces for relaxation. Greenery was to occupy up to 50 per cent of the entire area. The development would respect the historical part of the buildings.
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