On the trail of “Central Lviv,” you will discover several of the most important examples of Lviv’s modernist architecture. The buildings along this route primarily represent office and upper-middle-class residential architecture from the late 1920s to the 1930s. All of them are designed in a modernist-functional style, occasionally incorporating elements of Art Deco.
Highlights of the trail include the Sprecher Skyscraper, built in 1929, a landmark of modernity in Lviv that is considered the starting point of pure modernist aesthetics in the city; and the Building of the Chamber of Notaries, completed in 1939, which represents the culmination of modernist ideas developed by Lviv architects.
The trail also features the Jewish Theatre, the only theatre in Lviv built in a functionalist style. Several buildings on this route were designed by two of the most prominent modernist architects in Lviv, Ferdynand Kassler and Józef Avin, as well as by members of the younger generation, such as Daniel Kalmus.
Myroslava Liakhovych






