At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the 38- meter tall building of the Municipal Savings Bank is not as impressive as it was at the time of its construction. In 1937, it was, in fact, the second tallest "skyscraper" in Silesia. Chorzów was only surpassed by Katowice. Katowice. Yet, after the last renovation, the skyscraper epitomizes all the best in the Polish modernist architecture of the interwar period.