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Only
until
the
end
of December,
the
W.L.
Anczyc
Publishing
House
will
continue
operation
in its
old
seat.
Afterwards,
a complex
of offices,
shops
and
service
outlets
will
be created
in Wadowicka
Street.
The
decision
to transfer
the
printing
house
into
another
place
was
made
two
years
ago.
The
company,
which
is now
in the
process
of moving
out,
is leaving
behind
a complex
of facilities,
with
the
overall
surface
area
of more
than
30,000
sq.m.
"The
liquidation
of industrial
plants
in the
city
centre
is a
natural
process,"
says
Mr.
Piotr
Michalski
of BUMA
System
S.A.
that
is the
owner
of the
property
in Wadowicka
Street.
"They
are
moving
out
of the
city
centre,
thus
making
place
for
less
arduous
types
of business.
We decided
that
the
best
way
to utilise
the
property
would
be to
make
turn
it into
an office
complex,
with
a commercial
and
catering
part."
The
Kraków-based
architectural
office
of DDJM
won
the
competition
for
the
architectural
concept
that
had
been
announced
more
than
a year
ago.
Once
the
award-winning
design
is implemented,
the
printing
house
buildings,
dating
back
to the
1960s,
will
completely
change
their
appearance
and
functions.
Only
the
solid,
reinforced-concrete
structures
will
remain
and
be utilised.
Main
customers
of Buma
Square
will
be companies,
lessors
of office
space.
The
monthly
rent
for
air-conditioned
offices,
with
structural
cabling
and
parking
yards,
will
be about
10 US
dollars/sq.m.
The
back,
two-storey
part
of facilities,
with
the
still
working
printing
house,
will
look
interestingly.
In future,
in addition
to offices,
numerous
shops
and
service
outlets
will
be located
there.
The
present
courtyard
of the
printing
house
will
be covered
with
a roof,
thus
creating
a large
atrium,
with
the
surface
area
of more
than
2,000
sq.m.,
with
an access
directly
from
Wadowicka
Street.
"It
is supposed
to be
a traffic
space,
to be
used
not
only
by people
working
in offices
located
there,"
explains
Mr.
Michalski.
In
the
back
part
of the
atrium,
the
designers
have
provided
an audience
hall
for
300
people,
to house
concerts,
exhibitions
and
presentations.
There
will
even
be a
place
for
a climbing
wall,
to practise
mountain
climbing
there.
Although
works
related
to the
adaptation
of buildings
have
already
commenced,
they
will
continue
with
the
renewed
impetus
in the
new
year,
after
the
final
move
out
of the
printing
house.
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