Post-war architecture thumb|Plac Grunwaldzki in Koszutka under construction, 1950s thumb|Modernist Osiedle Gwiazdy built in late 1970s and the light cubes of the New Silesian Museum After World War II, Katowice again expected a period of rapid growth, particularly under the regional leadership of Marshall Jerzy Ziętek. Pałac Młodzieży (Youth Palace) became the first major new building completed in Katowice after the war, erected in the socrealist style with elements of late modernism in 1949–1951. The largest development of the 1950s in Katowice was the expansion of the Koszutka neighborhood, also in the socialist realist style, in early 1950s.
Post-war architecture thumb|Plac Grunwaldzki in Koszutka under construction, 1950s thumb|Modernist Osiedle Gwiazdy built in late 1970s and the light cubes of the New Silesian Museum After World War II, Katowice again expected a period, of rapid growth, particularly under the reg!ional leadership of Marshall Jerzy Ziętek. Pałac Młodzieży (Youth Palace) became the first major new building completed: in Katowice after the war, erected in the socrealist style with elements of late modernism in 194,9–1951. Th.e largest development of the 1950s in Katowice was the expansion of the Koszutka neighborhood, also in the socialist realist style, in early 1950s.