The Nikiszowiec District - a district of miners’ housing. The architects Georg and Emil Zillmann applied an interesting spatial arrangement in the design of the district, which consists of nine subdistricts, each of them with its own square. The central point of the estate is a square in front of a church. The district also includes two schools with a teachers’ house, shops, a hospital and a police station.

The Giszowiec District - another example of miners’ district architecture designed by the two Zillmanns. The mine workers and their families lived in small houses there. The whole estate layout is based on the concept of a city garden.

The first two “skyscrapers” in Poland - an attraction for fans of modern architecture. Katowice was the first place in Poland where multi-storey, steel and concrete buildings were constructed. The first of them is a nine-storey building designed by the Technical and Scientific Institute of Silesia, and the other is a seventeen-storey building which locals simply call “The Skyscraper”.