REVITALIZATION OF ŁÓDŹ HAS ACCELERATED

Łódź is getting more beautiful every year. More and more areas are being revitalized and taking on a new character.

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Revitalization includes the architectural fabric, entrepreneurship, and the local community. Modern cultural centers are being built in the revitalized areas, which are worth visiting during a stay in the “Polish Manchester.”

The Manufaktura shopping and cultural center with the Vienna House by Wyndham Andel’s Lodz hotel, Księży Młyn with Tymienieckiego Art Factory, OFF Piotrkowska or the cultural and artistic complex “EC1 Łódź - City of Culture” are the places that first began to attract lovers of revitalized post-industrial areas to Łódź.

However, every year there are more and more places of this type in Łódź, and the current ones are undergoing constant metamorphosis. The City Council, which is responsible for the city’s revitalization process, is currently working on 20 projects that will change the face of the city. A city that is not without reason called the City of Creative Industries. In the near future, a woonerf on Włókiennicza Street, the Wigencja factory on Sienkiewicza Street and WIMA Widzew Manufaktura will be completed. Private enterprises are involved in revitalization, thanks to which complexes such as Anna Szajbler’s Fusion with Gardens on the site of a former thermal power plant are being built.

At Ogrodowa Street, where the Vienna House by Wyndham Andel’s Lodz is located, one can already admire the magnificent façade of the Izrael Poznanski Palace, which houses the Museum of the City of Łódź. Soon it will be possible to stroll through the renovated alleys of the Old Town Park, whose design is modeled on its pre-war appearance. Lovers of good design should come to Łódź during the Łódź Design Festival, which is the most important event of its kind in our part of Europe. They should also visit the Central Museum of Textiles, where they will see the workings of a steam engine, a jacquard, or a self-actor, enlivened by modern technologies.

Staying overnight at the Vienna House by Wyndham Andel’s Lodz, which is itself a work of revitalization and occupies the building of a 19th-century spinning mill, a trip to the MS2 Art Museum next door is worthwhile. It is one of the oldest museums of modern art in the world. The collection was created by artists themselves, and you can see works by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, MaxErnst and Władysław Strzemi ński, who is associated with the “a.r.” group. which creates the history of Łódź. The hotel also houses the Andel’s Collection of contemporary art, and periodic temporary art exhibitions are held here as part of the Andel’s Art program. And the view from the glass-enclosed swimming pool, which offers a panoramic view of the revitalized area of Israel Pozna ński’s 19th-century factory complex, is unforgettable. The hotel is also part of the Łódź Film Route, which also includes the Museum of Cinematography, the Avenue of Stars on Piotrkowska Street and the Film School.