The building has seven floors and contains one of four paternoster lifts currently in use in Poland. The Polish architect Adolf Szysko-Bohusz announced a competition for the design of the new Silesian Parliament in 1925, who wished the building to espouse the local Polish cultural identity of the region, instead of the more customary German/ Prussian style.
The building has seven stories and contains one of four paternoster lifts currently in use in Poland. In 1925, the architect Adolf Szysko-Bohusz initiated a competition for designing the new Silesian Parliament, aiming to represent local Polish cultural identity rather than following the typical German/Prussian architectural style.