Art Nouveau style houses Lviv

Every old city was destined to pass certain stages of its history formation. One of such cities is Lviv, which charms the tourists with its rich and saturated eccentricity.

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Lviv old streets and houses are very interesting. During the period of ecletic and style creation, a typical for Lviv type of three-storey appartment building was formed. It consists of a main building wth large appartments and yard outbuildings, where small appartments for the servants were located.

The planning of these houses had a mixed character, because the main building and located in a line premises of the outbuildings were connected with opened balconies. On the first floor level there necessarily was a passage to the yard.

One of the first in Lviv buildings in modern style - the house os Sehal, located on the corner of Shevchenko prospect and Chaikovskoho street, is distinguished by gathered into a united communication hub glazed spiral staircase, located on the yard side.

The convenience of the planning and the graphic nature of modernist decor, which completely ends historicism, are typical for three- or four-storey residential buildings in the city center. In the architectural design, the motives, inherent in early modernism - floral ornament, female masks, intricately curved balcony lattice, glazed ceramics were used. By the way, such ceramics became a new building material for Lviv and was used for continuous revetment of facades of residential buildings.

In the center of Lviv, there are houses in the Art Nouveau style. We always offer you rent an apartment in Lviv and long in these homes daily lviv apartments

In the mature modern period there were no noticeable changes in the housing construction branch, and sectional house stayed the major element of it. In order to achieve maximum profit, the height of new buildings was increased to five floors. Their architectural look was also changed.

For residential buildings of that time emphasized plasticity of forms and monumentality, styling motifs of various historical styles, using a variety of sculptures and decorative elements were typical. For example, stylized elements of medieval defensive architecture formed the basis for the original composition of a building with two round towers at the corner of Herzen Street and Shevchenko Square.


Every creation of the stylized modern period is marked with uniqueness and originality, quality of construction work. The residential buildings on Kopernyka and Horkoho streets are characterized by picturesqueness and dynamism of architectural masses, accuracy of architectural details.


Medium-sized three-storey houses, in which, in addition to the large owner's appartments, were also appartments, meant for rent, were a special group of residential houses, being intermediaries between the mansion and profitable apartment building. An example of such a building is a mansion with a tower and balconies on Chuprynky street, 49.



As we can see, Lviv's short history can be seen in its houses, the age of majority of which is more than a hundred years.

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