In 1890, he and his brother were invited to Russia[1] to work on the Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg.
After two years of work there, he heard about the plans to build a new museum in Kyiv and offered his services.
As Italian artists were very popular in the Russian Empire, he was accepted and began to create designs.
Unquestionably, though, his best known work is on the House with Chimaeras (also designed by Horodecki); a flamboyant Art Nouveau-style building for which Sala created fantastical cement renderings of elephants, panthers, rhinoceroses, giant frogs and other exotic animals.
In addition to his architectural work, he taught sculpture at an art school[1] and a trade college.