This house Józef Awin, a famous Lviv architect, built for himself and his family. His design bureau was also located here. The facade looks quite decorated, as for modernism and kept the authentic reddish plaster. The windows of the second floor are framed with triangular cornices. The facade is decorated with two small allegorical sculptures in Art Deco style: “Fortune” and “Architecture” (with the house model in motion). Most likely, their author was Józef Starzyński, who also worked with Awin in another project − the construction of the medical university building Collegium Pharmaceuticum. Other sources report that the author of the sculptures could be a minor sculptor Bernard Kober. The entrance to the house begins with a large wrought-iron gate through which the architect’s car went. Further, there was a driveway and a garage. On the right, there was the beginning of the exit to the apartments. According to the woman, who lives in Józef Awin’s apartment, is nothing authentic left there, not even the entrance door to the apartment: “In Soviet times, there were communal apartments here. There was only one five-room apartment on each floor, which became communal. They were all distributed among the factory workers. The last communal apartment will move out of here in a few days”. And she adds, “Awin lived on the fourth floor. He rented out the other floors. There were servants’ apartments on the ground floor.” One can see that the entrance isn’t really in the best condition. Not even an authentic door remains anywhere; there is only a brass handrail on a solidly cast staircase.

Myroslava Liakhovych