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Retro Campus
Taken in the evening around the Łódź university campus.
On the left, the faculty of management; in the center, student's house XIV also known as 'The Tower of Babel'. The nickname refers to the multitude of languages, it having been the main accomodation for the students of the Polish-as-foreign-language faculty - in Communist times mainly all kinds of people from the Eastern Bloc and USSR-sympathizing Third World countries. This resulted in a jubilant international atmosphere quite unusual for the mostly boring and closed-off Communist Poland.
For the historical record, this is not the original 'Tower of Babel' student's house. The original is another, smaller building nearby; the students moved to the larger one and carried the nickname with them. The old building has a much more vertical silhouette, thus justifying the 'Tower' nickname.
Retro Campus
Taken in the evening around the Łódź university campus.
On the left, the faculty of management; in the center, student's house XIV also known as 'The Tower of Babel'. The nickname refers to the multitude of languages, it having been the main accomodation for the students of the Polish-as-foreign-language faculty - in Communist times mainly all kinds of people from the Eastern Bloc and USSR-sympathizing Third World countries. This resulted in a jubilant international atmosphere quite unusual for the mostly boring and closed-off Communist Poland.
For the historical record, this is not the original 'Tower of Babel' student's house. The original is another, smaller building nearby; the students moved to the larger one and carried the nickname with them. The old building has a much more vertical silhouette, thus justifying the 'Tower' nickname.