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Venčeslav Poniž

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Polish engineer

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According to Wikipedia, Venčeslav Poniž was a Polish engineer. He is best known as the author of welded steel and reinforced concrete projects of inter-war and post-war Poland. Among the best-known of his designs are such landmarks as the Maurzyce Bridge, the Prudential Tower and the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych car factory. Poniž was born 25 September 1900 in Vipava near Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary. Soon after World War I he started his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, which he continued at the Charles University in Prague and then the Lwów University of Technology in Poland. He graduated in 1926 and soon afterwards teamed up with Stefan Bryła, with whom he designed the Maurzyce Bridge, the first all-welded road bridge in the world. The team also designed the construction of the Prudential skyscraper in Warsaw, as well as the functionalist Postal Train Station.

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