January 2018
The Polish term “falowiec” means something like “wavy block”. In the northern city of Gdansk, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, eight ‘wavy’ apartment blocks were built in the 1960s and 1970s. The largest of them is the longest residential building in Europe measuring 860 metres in length, housing around 6,000 people and rising 11 floors
The Polish term “falowiec” means something like “wavy block”. In the northern city of Gdansk, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, eight ‘wavy’ apartment blocks were built in the 1960s and 1970s. The largest of them is the longest residential building in Europe measuring 860 metres in length, housing around 6,000 people and rising 11 floors