http://www.katowicethecity.com/first-look-at-new-railway-station/ The Capital of Silesian Agglomeration Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.katowicethecity.com/first-look-at-new-railway-station/#comment-181 Wee Bud Wed, 27 May 2009 21:01:17 +0000 http://www.katowicethecity.com/?p=326#comment-181 Another pointless and unrealistic project by an architect who's probably never been to Katowice. The Wyborcza (Poland's most popular comic) is always entertaining us with alleged plans for rebuilding either the station or the rynek. Why bury the bus stops under the ground? Why build a new shopping centre (apart from the fact that Krakow's now got a big-ass shopping centre beside the station, which everyone hates)? We've already got Silesia City Centre, 3 Stawy etc - do these trendy architects think that if you build more shoe shops folk'll buy more shoes? The concrete blocks separating Korfantego from the rynek have been lying there since the mid-70s when they decided it was impractical to rebuild the city centre. When someone removes those blocks, or replaces them with something more permanent (e.g. more lines painted on the road) then we'll start taking these ludicrous ideas slightly more seriously. I come from a town where the local paper was obsessed for about 20 years with plans to build a monorail from the airport to the main station. Every few months they'd publish artists' impressions of futuristic railways. The majority of local people laughed at this, because there's no point spending millions on a monorail when the airport's only 10 minutes by bus from the town centre anyway, but the architects kept drawing their pictures... Another pointless and unrealistic project by an architect who’s probably never been to Katowice. The Wyborcza (Poland’s most popular comic) is always entertaining us with alleged plans for rebuilding either the station or the rynek. Why bury the bus stops under the ground? Why build a new shopping centre (apart from the fact that Krakow’s now got a big-ass shopping centre beside the station, which everyone hates)? We’ve already got Silesia City Centre, 3 Stawy etc - do these trendy architects think that if you build more shoe shops folk’ll buy more shoes?
The concrete blocks separating Korfantego from the rynek have been lying there since the mid-70s when they decided it was impractical to rebuild the city centre. When someone removes those blocks, or replaces them with something more permanent (e.g. more lines painted on the road) then we’ll start taking these ludicrous ideas slightly more seriously.
I come from a town where the local paper was obsessed for about 20 years with plans to build a monorail from the airport to the main station. Every few months they’d publish artists’ impressions of futuristic railways. The majority of local people laughed at this, because there’s no point spending millions on a monorail when the airport’s only 10 minutes by bus from the town centre anyway, but the architects kept drawing their pictures…

]]> http://www.katowicethecity.com/first-look-at-new-railway-station/#comment-176 Mark Jett Tue, 12 May 2009 22:35:59 +0000 http://www.katowicethecity.com/?p=326#comment-176 Wow wonderfull building here..... ! Wow wonderfull building here….. !

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