Zygmunt Łoboda

Zygmunt Łoboda had studied architecture in Warsaw, where he also met his future wife Jadwiga Dobrzyńska. Both worked together throughout their lives until World War II broke out. Łoboda took part in the Warsaw Uprising and was murdered by the Nazis in the Flossenbürg concentration camp shortly before the war ended in 1945. His wife died in 1940.

Dobrzyńska and Łoboda initially won the tender for the new Central Institute for Physical Education in Warsaw-Bielany, but Edgar Norwerth’s design was eventually preferred. The Stadium in Warsaw (Szczęśliwice) was also not implemented. Its design won the third prize in the tender. Originally scheduled as an Olympic stadium, it was to be built in the old fortress Szczęśliwice. The stadium would have offered 13,000 seats and standing room for 27,000, and incorporated in the plans was a train stop. After planning began in 1926, the work was stopped in 1928, and the stadium was erected elsewhere.