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F5 magazine’s interview about modernism
Interview for LABEL Magazine
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Tamka

Modernizm , Warszawa

Ściana Wschodnia

Modernizm , Warszawa

Wiejska Street

Modernizm , Warszawa

FireRose

Beautiful Chaos

Esposizione Universale di Roma

Modernizm , Rzym

Vratislavia 2

Modernizm , Wroclaw

Mermaid Singing

Modernizm , Warszawa

Glass House

Modernizm , Warszawa

Iluzjon Cinema

Modernizm , Warszawa

Nearby Politechnika Warszawska

Modernizm , Warszawa

Wiejska

Modernizm , Warszawa

Skra Stadion

Modernizm , Warszawa

Vratislavia 1

Wroclaw

„Mermaid” Club

Modernizm , Warszawa

Moon Palace

Warszawa

Housing estate behind the Iron Gate

Modernizm , Warszawa

Smyk Commercial House

Modernizm , Warszawa

Block, Szpitalna Street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Karowa Street

Modernizm , Warszawa

EUR I

Modernizm , Rzym

Universus

Modernizm , Warszawa

Point.

Warszawa

PKP Ochota

Modernizm , Warszawa

Rotunda

Modernizm , Warszawa

Ujazdowskie Avenue

Modernizm , Warszawa

Grochow

Modernizm , Warszawa

Stadion Marymont

Modernizm , Warszawa

x1

Beautiful Chaos

long 2

Modernizm , Warszawa

White Castle

Beautiful Chaos

Old Town

Warszawa

Mokotow district

Modernizm , Warszawa

Kozia

Modernizm , Warszawa

National Library

Modernizm , Warszawa

Esposizione Universale di Roma 4

Modernizm , Rzym

Matejki street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Micro

Mikrokosmos

Rondo Waszyngtona

Modernizm , Warszawa

X Powisle

Modernizm , Warszawa

National Library

Modernizm , Warszawa

Na Rodrozu Place

Modernizm , Warszawa

Banana 2

Mikrokosmos

Student Canteen

Modernizm , Warszawa

11

Modernizm , Rzym

Myumit

Beautiful Chaos

Banana

Mikrokosmos

Pulawska street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Esposizione Universale di Roma 2

Modernizm , Rzym

Swietokrzyska street

Modernizm , Warszawa

X Powisle

Modernizm , Warszawa

Kozia 9

Modernizm , Warszawa

Bug

Mikrokosmos

Patria (latin Fatherland)

Krynica , Modernizm

City Center

Warszawa

PKP Powisle

Modernizm , Warszawa

„Jamnik”

Modernizm , Warszawa

Sugar

Chicane

Beautiful Chaos

13

Modernizm , Rzym

„Mushrooms”

Modernizm , Warszawa

Royal Palace

Warszawa

Ambulance Depot

Modernizm , Warszawa

Pointdown

Beautiful Chaos

Kozia

Modernizm , Warszawa

Stadion Marymont

Modernizm , Warszawa

Kozia

Modernizm , Warszawa

Rzym 2

Modernizm , Rzym

Sobieskiego 100

Modernizm , Warszawa

Grochow 1

Modernizm , Warszawa

X – block

Modernizm , Warszawa

Gorczewska street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Karowa

Modernizm , Warszawa

10

Modernizm , Rzym

Plastic bag

Mikrokosmos

X Powisle

Modernizm , Warszawa

Central Statistical Office

Modernizm , Warszawa

Suicide Skyscraper

Modernizm , Warszawa

Point

Beautiful Chaos

3d

Beautiful Chaos

Vratislavia 6

Modernizm , Wroclaw

Wall

Beautiful Chaos

Sluzewiec

Modernizm , Warszawa

Vratislavia 4

Modernizm , Wroclaw

Sobieskiego 100

Modernizm , Warszawa

Dom Holenderski

Modernizm , Warszawa

Luna Cinema

Modernizm , Warszawa

Tea

Mikrokosmos

X – Powisle

Modernizm , Warszawa

Vratislavia 5

Modernizm , Wroclaw

National Library

Modernizm , Warszawa

COS

Modernizm , Zakopane

Kossuth’s Highschool

Modernizm , Warszawa

Polish Central Bank

Modernizm , Warszawa

Palace

Modernizm , Rzym

AWF

Modernizm , Warszawa

Pulawska street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Skyscraper

Warszawa

Hotel Grant

Modernizm , Warszawa

Kopernika

Modernizm , Warszawa

Duality

Beautiful Chaos

Block, Kinowa street

Modernizm , Warszawa

Patria (latin Faterland) 2

Krynica , Modernizm

Esposizione Universale di Roma 3

Modernizm , Rzym

12

Modernizm , Rzym

Hungarian Trade Exposition

Modernizm , Warszawa

Rotunda II

Modernizm , Warszawa

Rondo Wiatraczna

Modernizm , Warszawa

Contener

Modernizm , Wroclaw

x2

Beautiful Chaos

New World

Warszawa

Bridge

Warszawa

Universus

Modernizm , Warszawa

Vratislavia 3

Modernizm , Wroclaw

Rzym 1

Modernizm , Rzym

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Banana 2

Esposizione Universale di Roma

long 2

The numbers are impressive: 508 meters long, 43 staircases, 1200 inhabitants, 10 flats per each staircase and two flats per one floor. In the back, 132 almost-underground garages. In the collective consciousness of Varsovians it is not only the longest block in the capital, but probably in the whole world – and visually it certainly is. Close neighbour f of  the East Warsaw Railway Station, welcomes travelers with its monumentality. Why is this monolith standing here? For purely practical reasons as Jarosław Trybus, deputy director of the Warsaw Museum said: „The building was built to cover the view of the old, crumbling buildings on Szmulki. It was meant to serve as a big screen covering what was uncomfortable „

Rotunda II

In the past times ironically called the „generals hat”, today is  one of the favorite meeting places is located at the intersection of the two most important thoroughfares of the city – Jerozolimskie Avenue and Marszałkowska Street. The true pearl of modernism, decorated with a characteristic roof, slightly inclined towards north-east is a part of the Eastern Wall urban complex.

In 1979 took place the most tragic accident of post-war Poland. Gas explosion which took place there in 1979 is considered on of the most trafic accidents of post-war Poland. The explosion taking place during rush hours took lives of 49 people. Rotunda was rebuilt after the explosion, however the abandonment of the signature transparent glasses caused loosing a lot from its past charm. The current reconstruction of the modernism wonder brings hope for restoring the assumptions of the original project.

Created during 1960-1966 based on the design of Zbigniew Karpiński.

Grochow 1

The longest facility in Warsaw with a hard to comprehend number of 2,330 flats with 5,000 habitants. The complex  consisting of interconnected 23 blocks covering the area of 11 hectares with total length of 1.5 km was designed by Zofia and Oskar Hansen and founded in 1970. Staircases, corridors and galleries were supposed to give the impression of “space penetrating the buildings”. That is probably the case, especially for someone who gets lost in this maze of walls.

Ujazdowskie Avenue

Universus

Designed to be t „exhibition pavilion of the Russian technical thought” and erected in the place of a demolished nineteenth century tenement house at 20/22 Belwederska Street, the building became a large bookstore. Nowadays it has become a simple, office building for banks, travel agencies etc.

Built: 1980. Project: Leszek Sołonowicz, Ryszard Lisiewicz, Arkadiusz Starski, and Włodzimierz Kaczmarczyk.

Bug

Wiejska Street

Matejki street

„Mushrooms”

Where can you spot the buildings with walls that seem most impractical and least adjustable furniture-wise in Warsaw? Not very far from the Żwirki and WIgury avenue, you can find charming houses shaped like mushrooms – don’t get to excited, since the Smurfs are nowhere to be found (ha ha ha…). The bizarrely shaped walls, in exchange for their impracticability, offered an opportunity to build larger objects than the strict communist law allowed. The project prepared by Andrzej Iwanicki initially assumed the construction of seventy houses – eventually only ten were created. Completed in 1961-1966.

Student Canteen

City Center

Sugar

3d

Kopernika

Point.

Wall

Kozia 9

 Apartment building, looking like it was purposefully hidden from the curious eyes of tourists visiting the Old Town, is a textbook example of Warsaw modernism in its prime. Intimate passage between two blocks leads from Teatralny Square to  the a building erected between 1974-1976 as an asylum for for the highest officials of the People’s Republic of Poland. Made entirely from prefabricated elements and despite repetitive construction elements, extremely sophisticated in its fantasy form. From the east, the balconies are arranged in the form of luxurious sun terraces and from the west building intrigues the observers with narrow windows facing north. Excellent location surrounded by historic landmarks, Saski Park and great communication around makes it still one of the best addresses in the capital.

Project Jerzy Kuźmienko and Piotr Sembrata.

Moon Palace

Mermaid Singing

Unique glass mosaic adornsthe outer walls of the building known as “Spiew Syrenty” (eng. the Mermaid Singing). Until 2017 it was popular evening place uniting Warsaw yuppies tired with the toils of past working week.. In 2017 the club was shut down due to introduction of plans replacing Mermaid Sing with a ten-storey apartment building. Luckily, the Mazovian heritage conservator listed pavillon in the register of monuments and saved the Mermaids from this oblivion

National Library

The written history of National Library building could accommodate a small library by itself. The winning project was announced in 1963, although the construction was completed over thirteen years later. In recent years it was heavily involved in numerous renovations and digitization of its resources.

Library does not interfere with the green and recreational space of Pole Mokotowskie and discretely fits int from the Wawelska avenue on the north. Come in and read a good book. Or a bad book. Don’t let other people tell you what to do.

Registration costs only 20 PLN

x1

Glass House

Rzym 1

Hungarian Trade Exposition

Luna Cinema

If the weather does not encourage going for walk, check the Iluzjon Cinema’s current repertoire. and you may discover many independent and alternative movies, rarely played in large multiplexes. But definitely worth your while. The building was designed by Mieczysław Piperek, who wanted to draw the attention to the entrance with characteristic, round vestibules. The wavy roof of the main body stresses out where the actual cinema hall is.  A small rotunda with a soft top completes the whole the modernistic formula. Saved from demolition thanks to social protests in the early twentieth century and hidden in between apartment blocks on Upper Mokotów.

X – block

The blocks built in 1971-1973 are a great example of how to delineate thought-out lines of perspectives using balconies. The characteristic curvature of the buildings laid out on the X pattern generates a lot of curvatures of falling chiaroscuro.

Project: Jan Zdanowicz

Palace

Rotunda

In the past times ironically called the „generals hat”, today is  one of the favorite meeting places is located at the intersection of the two most important thoroughfares of the city – Jerozolimskie Avenue and Marszałkowska Street. The true pearl of modernism, decorated with a characteristic roof, slightly inclined towards north-east is a part of the Eastern Wall urban complex.

In 1979 took place the most tragic accident of post-war Poland. Gas explosion which took place there in 1979 is considered on of the most trafic accidents of post-war Poland. The explosion taking place during rush hours took lives of 49 people. Rotunda was rebuilt after the explosion, however the abandonment of the signature transparent glasses caused loosing a lot from its past charm. The current reconstruction of the modernism wonder brings hope for restoring the assumptions of the original project.

Created during 1960-1966 based on the design of Zbigniew Karpiński.

Na Rodrozu Place

It is a „crossroads square” and not without reason. A multi-level interchange node located next to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Łazienki Park and many embassies. When you take a look around, you can not spot  any closure of the square. Only on one side we have the opportunity to see modernist, concave blocks. They appear to open some kind of a gate to the North Middletown. It is worth taking a rest near a lonely fountain in the middle of the roundabout itself. Use underground passages – they are decorated with tiles from the 60s and filled with a small art galleries.

Vratislavia 5

Smyk Commercial House

One of the best examples of post-war modernism in Poland. Completed in 1949-52 in the time of city’s toilsome recovery after war armageddon. Owing its unique appearance to architects Zbigniew Ihnatowicz and Jerzy Romański,the largest toy store in the city soon became favorite visit place for kids all ages. In the famous novel  „Bad” by Leopold Tyrmand one of the key plots is taking place on the Smyk’s escalators. The object itself received many awards with the most notable being the recognition from the Frankfurt am Main Museum of Architecture and choosing Smyk as one of the best polish architectural designs of the twentieth century. Currently is being rebuilt with a characteristic, twisted neon.

Rondo Wiatraczna

Gigantic blocks, called ironically the anthills, surround one of the largest transport hubs in Warsaw. A unique (and questionable?) architects’ vision of utopia consisting of  successive „superunits”. Roundabout Wiatraczna has numerous transport connections with districts and other cities.

Hotel Grant

AWF

Rondo Waszyngtona

Ul. Francuska 49 and al. Waszyngtona 2A – twin buildings created in early 1960’  based on the design of Tadeusz Zieliński. They are located at a slightly elevated level compared to sidewalks. Together, they form a gate leading from the Washington Roundabout and further into the once luxurious district of Saska Kępa.

Patria (latin Fatherland)

Mokotow district

Contener

10

Tea

Duality

Royal Palace

Sobieskiego 100

One of the most mysterious places in Warsaw, located at Sobieski 100 Street the building is still owned by Russian Federation. However, in 2017 the Polish authorities took steps to take over this property. At first glance it looks abandoned, but at a closer look one could see that it is constantly supervised meticulously by infrared protection and monitoring. There are various rumors and theories, one of them  is that there is an underground passage to the embassy of Russia, located 1 km away. Distinguished by the characteristic clearance between two blocks and the pyramidal layout of the building. Designed by Piotr Sembrata (author of Kozia apartament)

Pointdown

Stadion Marymont

Karowa Street

A true pearl and a cherry on top of the Warsaw’s modernism. Cubes that distinguish themselves from the main body appear rhythmical and disciplined at the same time. Take your time and walk the few steps down and take a look from a different perspective – you might be surprised how it will impact your perception of the building. Beside the tasteful design, the residents especially value the morning routine of the sun, slowly rising over Vistula river. Situated next to the University of Warsaw Department of Sociology and Hotel Bristol Karowa is a gem often overlooked by tourists hurrying to tick all the tour guide “must sees” off their list . Completed in 1978.

Designed by a team of architects: Henryk Dąbrowski, Jerzy Kuźmienko, Janusz Nowak, Piotr Sembrat and Adam Snopek.

„Jamnik”

The numbers are impressive: 508 meters long, 43 staircases, 1200 inhabitants, 10 flats per each staircase and two flats per one floor. In the back, 132 almost-underground garages. In the collective consciousness of Varsovians it is not only the longest block in the capital, but probably in the whole world – and visually it certainly is. Close neighbour f of  the East Warsaw Railway Station, welcomes travelers with its monumentality. Why is this monolith standing here? For purely practical reasons as Jarosław Trybus, deputy director of the Warsaw Museum said: „The building was built to cover the view of the old, crumbling buildings on Szmulki. It was meant to serve as a big screen covering what was uncomfortable „

Karowa

A true pearl and a cherry on top of the Warsaw’s modernism. Cubes that distinguish themselves from the main body appear rhythmical and disciplined at the same time. Take your time and walk the few steps down and take a look from a different perspective – you might be surprised how it will impact your perception of the building. Beside the tasteful design, the residents especially value the morning routine of the sun, slowly rising over Vistula river. Situated next to the University of Warsaw Department of Sociology and Hotel Bristol Karowa is a gem often overlooked by tourists hurrying to tick all the tour guide “must sees” off their list . Completed in 1978.

Designed by a team of architects: Henryk Dąbrowski, Jerzy Kuźmienko, Janusz Nowak, Piotr Sembrat and Adam Snopek.

Dom Holenderski

Stand in front of the house on Katowicka Street. If it’s summer, try to peek through the leaves and have a look on the building’s body with a balancing undercuts, level differences and overhangs. The top of the villa  is closed by a flat roof, the entrance leads through the ground floor supported on the stilts and the elevation is minimalistic with oblong windows. Functionalism determines the interior: economic matters downstairs, in the middle living rooms, and bedrooms under the roof. „I would like this house become a complicated puzzle of cuboids and cubes” said Bohdan Lachert who made a project with Jozef Szanajca. Currently, thanks to the generous subsidy of prof. Manfred Lachs, Dutch house is a home for the Society of Polish-Dutch Friendship (TPPN). You can join classes in language learning, cultural meetings and much more – all related to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Universus

Designed to be t „exhibition pavilion of the Russian technical thought” and erected in the place of a demolished nineteenth century tenement house at 20/22 Belwederska Street, the building became a large bookstore. Nowadays it has become a simple, office building for banks, travel agencies etc.

Built: 1980. Project: Leszek Sołonowicz, Ryszard Lisiewicz, Arkadiusz Starski, and Włodzimierz Kaczmarczyk.

Skra Stadion

PKP Ochota

Next to the one of the largest communication nodes in Warsaw emerges a beautiful railway pavilion, with its  shape resembling a falling kite or a bird’s wing unfolding for a flight. This remarkable glass building with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof disappears surrounded by many commercial shops. To fully appreciate the craftsmanship of its creators one has to investigate every inch of this unique pavilon design. Built in the 1960s based on the design of Arsenius Romanowicz and Piotr Szymaniak.

Vratislavia 4

Kozia

Apartment building, looking like it was purposefully hidden from the curious eyes of tourists visiting the Old Town, is a textbook example of Warsaw modernism in its prime. Intimate passage between two blocks leads from Teatralny Square to  the a building erected between 1974-1976 as an asylum for for the highest officials of the People’s Republic of Poland. Made entirely from prefabricated elements and despite repetitive construction elements, extremely sophisticated in its fantasy form. From the east, the balconies are arranged in the form of luxurious sun terraces and from the west building intrigues the observers with narrow windows facing north. Excellent location surrounded by historic landmarks, Saski Park and great communication around makes it still one of the best addresses in the capital.

Project Jerzy Kuźmienko and Piotr Sembrata.

Iluzjon Cinema

If the weather does not encourage going for walk, check the Iluzjon Cinema’s current repertoire. and you may discover many independent and alternative movies, rarely played in large multiplexes. But definitely worth your while. The building was designed by Mieczysław Piperek, who wanted to draw the attention to the entrance with characteristic, round vestibules. The wavy roof of the main body stresses out where the actual cinema hall is.  A small rotunda with a soft top completes the whole the modernistic formula. Saved from demolition thanks to social protests in the early twentieth century and hidden in between apartment blocks on Upper Mokotów.

Ambulance Depot

Since opening in 1958 this multi-storey, ramp structured garage was the headquarters and served as technical facilities for over 400 vehicles of the Metropolitan Sanitary Transport Column. And suprisingly it still is.

Project: Janusz Czajkowski, Wiesław Żochowski and Mariusz Dalak.

Kozia

Apartment building, looking like it was purposefully hidden from the curious eyes of tourists visiting the Old Town, is a textbook example of Warsaw modernism in its prime. Intimate passage between two blocks leads from Teatralny Square to  the a building erected between 1974-1976 as an asylum for for the highest officials of the People’s Republic of Poland. Made entirely from prefabricated elements and despite repetitive construction elements, extremely sophisticated in its fantasy form. From the east, the balconies are arranged in the form of luxurious sun terraces and from the west building intrigues the observers with narrow windows facing north. Excellent location surrounded by historic landmarks, Saski Park and great communication around makes it still one of the best addresses in the capital.

Project Jerzy Kuźmienko and Piotr Sembrata.

x2

Chicane

Kossuth’s Highschool

Suicide Skyscraper

Designed to be a hotel for compatriots coming from abroad (mainly for those with a thicker wallet filled with foreign currency). However, the unexpected demand for flats even in the social higher classes has driven the change  of the plans and what was meant to be a19-storey skyscraper, became a block of flats. Although not an ordinary block of flats the Varsovians were used to – the apartments could only be bought with foreign currency. This equipped with the hottest technological novelties back in 1976, such as intercom or fast elevators, had a two-tiered restaurant located at its very top..

Project: Jan Bogusławski and Bohdan Gniewiewski.

Housing estate behind the Iron Gate

In the place of the once densely built-up pre-war Warsaw Norhtern Downtown, there are now 19 gigantic blocks resembling the “Superunits” from Katowice. Name for this residual area was inspired by the dismantled in 1818 rococo “Iron Gate”. What led to a decision of building nineteen, not exactly state-of-the-art, monstrous blocks in the place of completely demolished pre-war Northern Downtown? The winning project was meant to fulfill Le Colbusier’s dream of leaving „tight, damp, dark, nineteenth-century tenement houses” and create an estate full of space, light and green. The project was chosen because of its monumentality, metropolitanity and „homogeneous treatment of the whole area composition”.

Each block contains three to four hundred apartments with about a thousand residents each. Apparently, due to the savings that socialist system demanded savings every day, there were a lot of cost-cutting initiatives including leaving the useless l bourgeois ideas such as a private toilet or kitchen behind. The estate, despite the reluctance connected with, let’s call it „historical” connotations , has found a high demand among not only the more artistic part of sociality, but also also actors, footballers and intellectuals. Huge, glazed lobbies inside the blocks were designed for hosting the joint initiatives of the residents. Surprisingly, there were none. Palm trees in pots and pieces of furniture units remained a kitschy reminder of those notions. Over the years, the  the estate habitat evolved into environment hosting students, retirees and Vietnamese. Built 1965 – 1972.

By the way, any ideas linked to demolishing the estate are impossible as a revolutionary Stolica concrete pouring system was used here, creating blocks into literally concrete monoliths.

Project: Jerzy Czyz, Jan Furman, Andrzej Skopinski.

Grochow

National Library

The written history of National Library building could accommodate a small library by itself. The winning project was announced in 1963, although the construction was completed over thirteen years later. In recent years it was heavily involved in numerous renovations and digitization of its resources.

Library does not interfere with the green and recreational space of Pole Mokotowskie and discretely fits int from the Wawelska avenue on the north. Come in and read a good book. Or a bad book. Don’t let other people tell you what to do.

Registration costs only 20 PLN

Gorczewska street

White Castle

Esposizione Universale di Roma 2

Esposizione Universale di Roma 4

Vratislavia 1

X Powisle

The blocks built in 1971-1973 are a great example of how to delineate thought-out lines of perspectives using balconies. The characteristic curvature of the buildings laid out on the X pattern generates a lot of curvatures of falling chiaroscuro.

Project: Jan Zdanowicz

FireRose

Patria (latin Faterland) 2

Micro

PKP Powisle

Located halfway up the Warsaw Escarpment and between Powisle and Srodmiescie districts, railway station had to be equipped with two cash registers and commercial kiosks servicing both entrances. Shape of top pavilon is designed for optimal illumination of the interior with direct daylight and reflected light and also created a natural gutter from the roof. The lower pavilion refers to the arches of Poniatowski bridge as the roof allude to inverted bowl or sphere’s fragment. Concrete canopies were also used as anchors for the traction network, which allowed to minimize the loss of space for passengers.

EUR I

Self-hosted video of the German capital

Tamka

COS

Central Statistical Office

Vratislavia 2

Pulawska street

„Mermaid” Club

Unique glass mosaic adornsthe outer walls of the building known as “Śpiew Syrenty” (eng. the Mermaid Singing). Until 2017 it was popular evening place uniting Warsaw yuppies tired with the toils of past working week.. In 2017 the club was shut down due to introduction of plans replacing Mermaid Sing with a ten-storey apartment building. Luckily, the Mazovian heritage conservator listed pavillon in the register of monuments and saved the Mermaids from this oblivion

Vratislavia 3

Old Town

Ściana Wschodnia

The competition for the conceptual design of the Eastern Wall was fierce. With plenty of ideas, the socialist realist style aimed at complementing the Soviet Union’s gift for Polish nation came in close second. Fortunately, the modernist vision of Bohdan Pniewski finally won and in 1962 the seven-year construction started. The entire Eastern Wall complex consists of 23 buildings with a total cubage of 640 000 m3 . The three slim skyscrapers, towering over the rest of the Eastern Wall complex, became on of the most recognizable landmarks of the Warsaw panorama.

Swietokrzyska street

X Powisle

The blocks built in 1971-1973 are a great example of how to delineate thought-out lines of perspectives using balconies. The characteristic curvature of the buildings laid out on the X pattern generates a lot of curvatures of falling chiaroscuro.

Project: Jan Zdanowicz

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Vratislavia 6

Point

Block, Kinowa street

X – Powisle

The blocks built in 1971-1973 are a great example of how to delineate thought-out lines of perspectives using balconies. The characteristic curvature of the buildings laid out on the X pattern generates a lot of curvatures of falling chiaroscuro.

Project: Jan Zdanowicz

Plastic bag

Bridge

Stadion Marymont

The stadium at Marymont is a pearl of structural modernism. Designed by the eminent Polish architect Stanisław Barylski and built in the 1950s. Stadium creates a sense of intimacy with its gentle, harmonious details. Arched passages made of solid concrete serve as a beautiful complement to the entire facility. This theater was a host and witness of the famous sports stories  with Kazimierz Górski beginning his coaching career and Zinedine Zidane playing one of his first matches in the French national team among others. Despite its poor condition, stadium is still alive with many minor sport clubs and associations. Recently social actions were risen aimed for restoring the stadium – without results for now.

Banana

Esposizione Universale di Roma 3

Rzym 2

National Library

The written history of National Library building could accommodate a small library by itself. The winning project was announced in 1963, although the construction was completed over thirteen years later. In recent years it was heavily involved in numerous renovations and digitization of its resources.

Library does not interfere with the green and recreational space of Pole Mokotowskie and discretely fits int from the Wawelska avenue on the north. Come in and read a good book. Or a bad book. Don’t let other people tell you what to do.

Registration costs only 20 PLN

Skyscraper

Block, Szpitalna Street

Kozia

Apartment building, looking like it was purposefully hidden from the curious eyes of tourists visiting the Old Town, is a textbook example of Warsaw modernism in its prime. Intimate passage between two blocks leads from Teatralny Square to  the a building erected between 1974-1976 as an asylum for for the highest officials of the People’s Republic of Poland. Made entirely from prefabricated elements and despite repetitive construction elements, extremely sophisticated in its fantasy form. From the east, the balconies are arranged in the form of luxurious sun terraces and from the west building intrigues the observers with narrow windows facing north. Excellent location surrounded by historic landmarks, Saski Park and great communication around makes it still one of the best addresses in the capital.

Project Jerzy Kuźmienko and Piotr Sembrata.

Sobieskiego 100

One of the most mysterious places in Warsaw, located at Sobieski 100 Street the building is still owned by Russian Federation. However, in 2017 the Polish authorities took steps to take over this property. At first glance it looks abandoned, but at a closer look one could see that it is constantly supervised meticulously by infrared protection and monitoring. There are various rumors and theories, one of them  is that there is an underground passage to the embassy of Russia, located 1 km away. Distinguished by the characteristic clearance between two blocks and the pyramidal layout of the building. Designed by Piotr Sembrata (author of Kozia apartament)

Pulawska street

Nearby Politechnika Warszawska

X Powisle

The blocks built in 1971-1973 are a great example of how to delineate thought-out lines of perspectives using balconies. The characteristic curvature of the buildings laid out on the X pattern generates a lot of curvatures of falling chiaroscuro.

Project: Jan Zdanowicz

New World

11

Sluzewiec

Polish Central Bank

The current image of Polish National Bank was born at the Experimental Works Department of the Academy of Fine Arts. Design was constantly evolving during construction that took almost 30 years. The final visual effect is meant to resemble a tough safe or at least reliable a vault. Completed in 1975.  Project: Bohdan Pniewski.

Myumit