Following the death of Stalin in 1956, and the end of socrealism, Jerzy Ziętek and city authorities commissioned a group of young architects and urbanists to create a project of the new urban design of Katowice. The collective, called "Miastoprojekt Katowice", came up with a design heavily influenced by Le Corbusier's ideas. The project was centered around a grand avenue (current "Aleja Korfantego") surrounded by simple, modern blocks and monuments, scattered in distance to each other according to modernist ideals. The most important buildings from that time include: