Wendy estate. Five residential towers of equal height will rise at the intersection of Wendy and Węglowa Streets on the so-called Międzytorze area in Gdynia.
Ultimately, the investment, named Wendy - after the project's creator and founder of Gdynia's port Tadeusz Wendy - will consist of five residential buildings with ground-floor services. A total of about 800 apartments are to be built here. The investor, Robyg, has just announced the first building, which will include 147 apartments. Its construction is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2026.
BJK Arcitekci design
The design of the entire project is the responsibility of the BJK Architekci studio, which has to its credit such projects as Olivia Star - the tallest building in northern Poland, Baltic Terraces, or the Kwietna 32 investment in Gdansk. What made you choose it?
We have cooperated with the studio before (including on our Nowa Letnica investment) and we know that the office has a lot of experience in designing high-quality investments," informed A&B Robyg.
However, Nowa Letnica is not an example of a properly planned development. The estate is part of the Letnica district - a chaotically developing part of the city, with an infrastructure that does not keep up with the residential boom, which is sometimes maliciously referred to as "Gdańsk's Hong Kong" and a "molehill." The housing development erected by Robyg is thick with identical 18-story towers, which, combined with unattractive facades, have disfigured the city's landscape. In 2022, residents heated up a discussion about the quality of New Letnica's construction when glass panels from balconies fell onto sidewalks during strong wind gusts.
Diversified buildings
In the Wendy's development, the buildings will be architecturally diverse, and each will be different, for example, the first apartment building refers to containers, and the next to warehouses or stacking. Each of the five buildings will use high-quality stucco materials for the facade. We wanted to show that modernism is not just white and specific schemes, the developer says.
The development plan for the area, passed in 2017, stipulates "the requirement to adapt the forms and architectural expression to the tradition of modernist architecture in Gdynia, and to use the basic color scheme of the facades in shades of white, gray, beige." For buildings designed in street frontages, elevation divisions should be used (by vertical articulation, withdrawal of building fragments, differentiation of texture), referring to the rhythm of the elevation of the historic buildings of downtown Gdynia.
The estate is to consist of five buildings
© Robyg
Such stipulations, however, are not a sufficient guarantee of good architecture and allow for rather free interpretation. Although the requirement of facade diversity itself is as necessary as possible in the plans. Similar buildings have recently been a plague among newly constructed investments in the center of Gdynia. Also those being developed in key locations for the image of the city - such as Fisherman ' s Pier or South Pier. Unfortunately, in the Wendy estate the height of the tallest parts of the development will not be differentiated - each of the residential towers is to be about 50 meters high.
Wendy estate, Sea Towers towers in the background
© Robyg
In the first building to be built at the Wendy estate (137 apartments), almost every third apartment is a studio (their areas start from 29 sqm). So it can be expected that these units will be eagerly bought by investors and rented to tourists.
