Dawna Fabryka Norblina w Warszawie - szopa na rowery czy katedra w Lincoln?

• Autorzy: Kubiak Janusz

Warianty tytułu

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OLD NORBLIN’S FACTORY IN WARSAW — A SHED OF BICYCLES OR CATHEDRAL IN LINCOLN?

• Języki publikacji: PL EN

Abstrakty

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The author tries to answer the question whether old Norblin’s factory in Warsaw has to be preserved and treated as a monument. In the beginning, however, he describes the history of the building, which despite adversities of the fortune and two world wars has survived until our days in an almost unimpaired form. The old factory complex has still buildings from all phases of the history from 1780 to 1939. For some time it housed the Warsaawa Metail Rolling Mill. According to various opinions, the complex, situated in the centre of the town, is to be either pulled down or preserved as a monument of the past. A* conservation experts report worked out in the Monuments Conservation Workshop and based on the future programme for the use of the complex has revealed its usefulness as a branch of the Museum of Technics. The report postulates to use all historic objects to a maximum extent. Just as the discussion on the future of former Norblin’s factory has been going on for a few years, the author thinks it worthwhile to point out some theoretical and functional aspects of the problem of the protection of industrial architecture both on a townplanning, architectionic and functional scale. Quoting the opinion of Professor Jan Białostocki, one of the best known Polish art historians, the author states that to regard Norblin’s complex as ”a clumsy and unesthetical architectural product (as it is thought by some experts) is an erroneous assumption inadequate to contemporary criterions of the evaluation and appreciation of all man-made objects. In this context, this statement loses its justification. Former Norblin’s factory is a testimony of the past, and arguments frequently repeated in discussions that these buildings are technically worn-out and have no u tility value must be rejected in this light, because they constitute one of rare documents on the development of the industrial society. Despite appearances, the outwardly ugly and technically worn-out walls of Norblin’s factory conceal much information on the past epoch, to which the author provides the proofs.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

fabryka Norblina w Warszawie; Norblin; stare obiekty przemysłowe; Walcownia Metali „Warszawa”; dzieje fabryki; architektura przemysłowa

• Wydawca: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Czasopismo: Ochrona Zabytków
• Rocznik: 1983
• Numer: 1-2
• Strony: 110-112

Daty

wydano

1983

Twórcy

autor

Kubiak Janusz

• mgr, PP PKZ — Oddział Badań i Konserwacji Warszawa

Bibliografia

• J. B i a ł o s t o c k i , Historia sztuki wśrod nauk humanistycznych, Wrocław, Warszawa, Krakow, Gdańsk 1980, s. 122—124.

Identyfikatory

ISSN

0029-8247