Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk

Architect. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1927). Author of, among others, the Służewiec Horse Racing Track.

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Born on July 20, 1901 in Bebra (Courland).

Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk was a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1927). After the war he emigrated to the USA.

Count Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk designed houses and tenement houses in the modernist style in Warsaw, e.g. a residential house at Aleja Szucha from 1934, built in an international style referring to neo-expressionism, with elements of the ship style - projections containing staircases received round windows resembling portholes. He also designed houses located at ul. Chocimska 25 and Senacka 10, and a tenement house at ul. Puławska 20 (corner of Narbutta Street).

He was the main designer of the Horse Racing Track complex in Warsaw's Służewiec, opened on June 3, 1939.

Below, as a curiosity, we present an interesting, archival article from 1929, describing the problems that appeared during the construction of Tor Służewiec.

See how architects and visionaries of the time dealt with them: "Nowy Tor w Służewiec" (1929) - Editors of the Rider and Breeder magazine (after clicking the link you will be redirected to the Polish Digital Equestrian Library).

source: Rider and Breeder 1929 No. 48 pp.710-717

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