The aim of the study is to analyze the challenges and opportunities of conversions and adaptations of Polish modernist hotel buildings to new functions. Preliminary research shows that hotels constitute a significant group among unused buildings from that period. This issue remains unexplored, while the market situation shows that investors will increasingly face an economic, social, and environmental dilemma as to demolish existing facilities and replace them with new structures or thoroughly rebuild and reuse. The study was conducted based on an analysis of groups of criteria in terms of the potential and difficulties associated with investments utilizing the existing hotel fabric, taking into account environmental, formal, structural, functional, and socio-cultural aspects. The results of the study show that the conversion or adaptation of modernist hotels in Poland to a new function is primarily determined by technical issues, i.e., the original structural layout and technical condition of the building, and such investments require decisive action, primarily in terms of replacing external partitions and adapting internal communication systems. However, it has been proven that, in many cases, such investments are possible, and they bring a number of environmental and social benefits, so they are at least desirable from the perspective of sustainable development.

The increasing decentralisation of work has expanded the range of locations in which employees can perform their tasks, making workplace location an increasingly important contextual dimension of work design. This study examines preferences for different workplace arrangements among Generation Z respondents and investigates the organisational, spatial, relational/status, and job-survival characteristics associated with these preferences. Data were collected from 731 respondents in Poland using a researcher-developed questionnaire. Seven workplace arrangements were evaluated, including onsite work at the organisation’s premises and six arrangements involving work outside or across the boundaries of the traditional organisational workplace: working from home, coworking, work at the client’s location, mobile work, platform work, and hybrid work. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations were complemented by six multiple linear regression models. Statistical inference was strengthened using HC3 heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors and Benjamini–Hochberg false discovery rate correction. Hybrid work received the highest preference rating, followed by working from home, whereas mobile work and work at the client’s location were evaluated less favourably. The regression models showed that different workplace arrangements were associated with different configurations of workplace characteristics. The strongest explanatory performance was obtained for working from home (R² = 0.353; adjusted R² = 0.318). For hybrid work, employment security emerged as the strongest robust association (β = 0.185) and remained significant after correction for multiple testing. Overall, the findings indicate that preferences for decentralised work cannot be reduced to a general preference for spatial flexibility. Instead, the observed pattern can be interpreted in terms of structured flexibility, combining some discretion over workplace location with organisational stability, autonomy, access to information, coordination, and social connectedness. Workplace location is therefore proposed as a contextual dimension for comparing configurations of established work-design characteristics rather than as a new independent work-design construct. Because the study is cross-sectional and sustainability outcomes were not directly measured, causal and sustainability interpretations should be made cautiously.

This article discusses the potential for modifying the existing transport and circulation structure of the centre of Wrocław in order to create new social spaces and a coherent and continuous public space layout. This research is based on an analysis of the functional and spatial structure of downtown Wrocław, circulation accessibility, an analysis of planning documents, and additional studies on so-called standards. Contemporary directions and trends in urban space design were also analysed, both in the literature and in completed examples of transport space remodels. Proposals for functional models that could be applied in Wrocław’s centre were developed and their implementation was undertaken, in particular on Szewska Street.

Kształtowanie środowiska miejskiego na przykładzie wielofunkcyjnych zespołów o wiodącej funkcji biurowej