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The building is a monument of Late Renaissance residential architecture. Its construction dates to 1588–1589. It is conjectured that the architects Petro Barbon and Pavlo Rymlyanyn built the townhouse. At that time, the townhouse was two stories tall. From 1596, the building became the property of merchant and apothecary Jan Lorenzowicz, who opened one of the first pharmacies in Lviv here. At that same time, a third story was added according to a design by the architect Petro Krasovskyi.

The building at pl. Rynok 6 (protection No. 326/5) is located within the territory of the State Historic-Architectural Preserve, set in the row development on the eastern side of the market square. The building was erected in 1580 for the wealthy Greek merchant Kostiantyn Korniakt on the foundations of two ancient Gothic townhouses.

The Powder Tower (today — the Architect's House; 1554–1556; reconstruction 1954–1956) is one of four preserved towers of the outer city fortification system. It is a freestanding, horseshoe-shaped stone structure built over four stories. The building is topped with a steeply pitched tile roof. Its façade wall is pierced with embrasures. Statues of reclining lions (nineteenth century) stand at the entrance. The Architect's House has been housed in the tower since 1956.

Lychakivsky (Lychakiv) cemetery is situated close to Mechnykova street; its territory occupies the Lychakiv plateau and its vicinities. As for today, this is the oldest preserved cemetery in Lviv which was officially opened in 1786. It is one of the best known European necropolises containing a lot of artistic monuments. The cemetery has been declared a historical, archaeological and artistic monument of national significance. There one can see the graves of many prominent persons, military burial places belonging to the times of the First and Second World Wars etc.

The monument to the fallen participants of the 1918 battle for Lviv was installed near the main building of the Lviv Polytechnic in 1925. The authors of this project were architect Witold Wincenty Rawski, sculptors Józef Starzyński and Andrzej Albrycht. The monument was destroyed after 1950.

The current building of the Lviv city hall was built in the years 1827–1835. The project was designed by architects Alois Wondraszka, Jerzy Glogowski, Joseph Markl, and Franz Trescher. In 1849–1851, after a fire, a reconstruction was carried out under a project by Johann Salzmann. The massive building is situated at the center of the Rynok square; it has four symmetrical Neo-Classicist façades. Its tower, which is square in plan, belongs to the most noticeable accents of Lviv's architectural panorama and is one of the visual symbols of the city. The style of the building can be considered a typical one for the Austrian administration buildings of the 1830–1840s. The city hall is the administrative center of the city, the Lviv City Council is located there.

The former Biesiadecki Palace (also formerly owned by the Bielski, Potocki, and Komorowski families; currently housing a library) was built in the early eighteenth century. It underwent major changes over the years: a reconstruction in 1756 by architect Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille; an interior renovation in the 1820s by architect Fryderyk Bauman; and a further reconstruction in 1934 by architect Jan Bagieński. The architectural styles include Rococo, Empire (in the interior), and Neoclassicism.

This standalone building is set back within the property behind a garden, which is separated from the square by a stone wall with an entrance gate. It is a prime example of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century urban palace architecture. Despite various renovations, the monument has preserved its original structural core.