Offices, schools and public buildings to film in Poland

Poznan Town Hall

Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A Renaissance town hall of 1560 on Poznan's Old Market Square, rebuilt to Italian designs, with an arcaded facade, a mechanical clock with butting goats and a council chamber now a history museum.

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Silesian Library

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A glazed 1998 public library on European Council Square in central Katowice, with reading rooms, a hall and storage floors that read as modern civic interiors.

Electricity, water, high natural light and on-site parking

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Catholic University of Lublin (KUL)

Lublin Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A university in Lublin founded in 1918, with a historic main building on Aleje Raclawickie housing faculties, libraries and archives that include manuscripts by Adam Mickiewicz.

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Chorzowska 50 office building

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A fourteen-storey office tower in central Katowice with a retail arcade, conference centre and around 660 parking spaces across five levels, close to two regional airports.

660 parking spaces across five floors, on-site security and video surveillance, retail arcade

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Complex of Schools, Pyskowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A red-brick Gothic Romanesque school building from 1861 in Pyskowice, with a main hall, classrooms, a computer lab and grounds including a sports field and parking.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Huta Batory director's building

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A 1915 modernist administration building at the Huta Batory steelworks in Chorzow, still in office use, with a roof turret, three bas-reliefs over the entrance and an interior courtyard.

Power and water, parking, meeting rooms, original period interiors

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Jeżyce Fire Station, Poznań

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A 1908 fire station in Poznan's Grunwald district with baroque-influenced brickwork, a training yard with obstacles for firefighters and a cobbled forecourt.

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Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A music conservatory in central Katowice combining a neo-Gothic former Silesian Sejm building with a modern wing holding a 480-seat concert hall, library and practice rooms.

Electricity on site, parking in front of the building

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Lodz Film School (PWSFTviT)

Lodz Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

The national film, television and theatre school in Lodz, with shooting halls, screening rooms and post-production labs used by students, and a production history running through Polish cinema since the 1940s.

Seen in: Alumni include Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Morasko Campus, Adam Mickiewicz University

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A university campus in northern Poznan built from 1984 onward in late modernist and postmodernist styles, with wide pedestrian routes, lecture buildings, a sports centre and a swimming pool.

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Poznań City Hall Offices (Urząd Miasta Poznania)

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A baroque, horseshoe-shaped former Jesuit college in central Poznan built in two stages between 1701 and 1737, now the city administration's offices around a large courtyard.

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Poznan University of Physical Education campus

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A university sports campus in Poznan with a multi-function stadium, swimming pool, tennis courts and a sports hall, alongside a 1960s socialist-realist main building and an early 20th-century rectorate.

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Rödl & Partner Office Building, Gliwice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A three-storey modernist office building in Gliwice, 300 metres from the Old Town, with meeting and conference rooms, a lecture hall, a terrace and parking in front.

Electricity and parking on site

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Sąd Rejonowy w Sosnowcu (Sosnowiec District Court)

Sosnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A district court operating since 1945 inside one of the Schön family's eclectic 1903 palaces in Sosnowiec, with courtrooms set in the original ballroom, dining room and library.

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Silesian Voivodeship Office, Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A 1925-1929 government headquarters in central Katowice with a 260-seat former regional parliament hall, a marble ceremonial hall, and six kilometres of corridors across 634 rooms.

634 rooms, 260-seat hall, marble hall, on-site parking

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Szkoła Podstawowa w Bieruniu (Bieruń Primary School)

Bierun, Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A municipal primary school in Bieruń with an original wing from 1848 extended in later decades, now spread across two buildings with 42 classes and a gym hall.

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Textilimpex office building, Lodz

Lodz Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A mid to late 20th-century office building in central Lodz with a spacious entrance hall, listed by the local film commission for interior office shoots.

Seen in: Tabletki uspokajajace Labofarm

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University of Warsaw Library (BUW)

Masovian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

The main library of the University of Warsaw on the Vistula riverside, combining large glazed reading rooms with a landscaped roof garden above the building, and space available to hire for events.

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