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Warsaw.
The city today.
Plans for the future.
organizer
CENTRUM EDUKACYJNO-KULTURALNE
¸OWICKA
ul. ¸owicka 21, 02-502 Warszawa
tel. 845 50 62, tel./fax 845 56 75
WARSAW
THE CITY TODAY
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
THE EXHIBITION WAS CREATED THANKS TO
WARSZAWA CENTRUM BOROUGH
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE PRESIDENT OF WARSAW
P A W E ¸
P I S K O R S K I
april – may 2000
Warsaw University Library
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The exhibition „Warsaw. The city today. Plans for the future“ deliberately refers to the series of exhibitions
relating to Warsaw, inspired by the President of Warsaw Stefan Starzyƒski in 1936.
The exhibitions „Warsaw of the future“ (1936), „Old Warsaw“ (1937) and „Warsaw yesterday, today and
tomorrow“ (1938) stressed the importance of the city development continuity and tradition. Moreover, what seems to
be very crucial, they intended to define the ideas of the future. The exhibition „Warsaw. The city today. Plans for the
future“ is addressed not only to the „common“ inhabitant of Warsaw, but also to the politicians and town-planners
responsible for the sets concerning the development of the city.
We all need a moment of reflection over the things that have already been done - over the success of the
dynamic development and over its evident failures. The exhibition tends to stress the present and the future of the
capital city. It does not give clear answers. It presents the image of Warsaw in the year 2000 - the example of good
and bad architecture, town-planning achievements and failures, the effects of actions that have already been
undertaken. It is an attempt of showing the intentions, the designs and the ideas of the development of Warsaw. We
will see here the buildings that have been recently constructed, these which will soon come into existence and these
which are just being designed. We will see the suggestions of communication solutions (concerning the
underground, bridges, parking areas, ring-roads) and new, sometimes bold, comprehensive town-planning ideas like
the Praski Port, an academic district, sports centres.
Competence in giving clear definition future vision and the will to carry out changes were characteristic of the
presidency of Stefan Starzyƒski. That is the motion so indispensable for Warsaw.
Let’s keep and take from the history of Warsaw everything that creates the identity and uniqueness of this city
and let it become the foundation of constructing the future.
I wish I could quote the words of Stefan Starzyƒski here from the introduction to the exhibition catalogue from
1938: „We will accomplish our tasks well only in case we contribute creative idea and initiative to the work on the
development of Warsaw“.
I am convinced that the exhibition „Warsaw. The city today. Plans for the future“ will be creative inspiration of our
thinking about the future of Warsaw.
Pawe∏ Piskorski
President of Warsaw
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Some loose thoughts about Architecture
Once in history it happened, that the simplicity enchanted and amazed. It was the Cheops Pyramid. Every next
attempt ended in a sullen defeat: like modesty of a politician or an artist.
Being 17 years old I tried, from the position of vanguard artist, to explain merits of new, simple furniture: I did not
find other arguments than the one, that they are easier to be dusted.
Archi - tecture - a pompous word, means raising the archs, creating order. Considerations of the harmony of the
XIXth century architect, who had gathered the experience of XXV centuries, were one of the greatest achievements
of human thought. They were so compound, that we cannot even follow them today. They formulate the fear of the
unimaginable and artistic criteria which justify incompetence.
When I feel down, I go to Rome, to walk about St. Peter’s Basilica. There, amongst incredibly proud dimensions of
domes, archs, columns, moulds and perspectives, I find joy and serenity.
At the architecture departments there are 2 hours of drawing lessons a week, instead of 4 hours a day. Free-hand
drawing is the only way to master an impulse of harmony. The ancients did thousands of transitory designs and
sketches by a scriber on stone tablets or on wax.
The catalogue of the cast-iron decoration of Societe Val d’Osne from 1885 included 10 000 items.
Polish building law is a set of single regulations which are not guided by any superior idea.
The clear idea like the one created in the period from 1920 to 1955 concerning architectural outlook of Poland, has
not been set up yet. That is why single, often of great value constructions do not find their proper place in urban or
rural paysage. So-called „world-wide“ aspirations even have had an impact on the sacred architecture. It is like all
the time up-to-dateness has still been the dream of designers in the bands of socialistic realism. The slogans of
our artistic criteria can be characterized by statements: it is ugly, because it takes the origin from communistic,
fascist, soviet, or the detested „Fritz“ tradition.
New technologies and new materials give the opportunities that architecture has never enjoyed before. But only their
superficial effects have been exploited.
Meditations concerning the philosophy of creation do not practically exist. Loutishness of originators does not give
any chances for the thoughts of higher order than the aspect of economy.
Splendid constructors’ achievements became the only true aesthetic value. But in the presence of strange
antinational democratic conditions these achievements give the picture similar to the world created by Orwell.
Franciszek Starowieyski
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Style of encampment
For me many places in Warsaw are not at their right place. Still our poor city has a shuttered backbone. That is
probably the effect of destroying the majority of the traditional capital city scheme. Of creating the streets where there
were not before. Of moving , creating the communication system in the times of first reconstruction and, as a matter of
fact, of total remodelation. Of creating the city of bureaucrats. Unfortunately I do not know if it is possible to return to the
things which were natural in Warsaw. Luckily, although some places like The Old Town or The Royal Route were
reconstructed a little bit stagily, they managed to maintain something from their souls. But generally, Warsaw has too many
buildings of conferment. Someone made up that it would be very Polish and we have the Palace of Culture - as if a wild
extract of the most beautiful Polish buildings’ style. Well, but mosses have grown, the legend has arisen and the Palace
somehow is in its madness the part of Warsaw. It is even the part of its architectural folklore. Maybe if will happen to MDM.
So maybe this new architecture from today’s bureaucratic conferment, those glass towers, pyramids and erection of
banks will be moss-grown someday and will grow into the folklore. I would like to believe that. But for me for now the essence
of Warsaw is its existence as a camp site. An encampment. Those glass pyramids are like tents, which will soon be struck
by the time. I accept this urban encampment. The existence of the great which has inside the secret, that „it can Strike“.
It can stop exiting. It can move the buildings to various places. It would be unimaginable in Cracow. Because the ancient
tombs would be violated. And here, everything is set as tents and sheds in the cemetery, where there is this „national
suffering memory“ everywhere, so no one remembers anymore. The city of the indestructible stability but also of the burnt
sheet of paper transitoriness. The city of permanent dust which is only where something is being ruined and built.
And those glass, vague sky-scrapers. Maybe they will settle in the city. Maybe they will become not only the
construction concept, but also the life of the street. I do not know. Some people say that Warsaw simply lacks „human
ground floor“. Something that can be watched and liked from the passer’s-by point of view, who looks more or less to the
first floor level. This throng of places for sitting, meeting people and shopping. Warsaw is really much more beautiful and
neat from the distance. But still there is no this Warsaw of the „human ground floor“, which I remember when it had arisen
amongst the ruins just after the destruction. You could walk along the Marsza∏kowska St. and life was seething around you.
Everything was burnt over the reconstructed ground floors. But still it was the capital city. There were magic places. The
places that gathered people. They were bringing them closer together. And now it is so difficult to build that human „ground
floor-world“ around those exeptional buildings which look nice, but only from the distance - somewhere there when you
can watch them from the places 20 km away.
Ernest Bryll
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Stefan Starzyƒski became the President of Warsaw in 1934 and from the very beginning he marked the main
directions of his policy. The city needs were immense then.
The most important task of new Warsaw authorities was the realization of spatial management plan worked
out by Stanis∏aw Ró˝aƒski group in 1928.
Modernized in the therties – this project was the base of the city development. To make planning works more
efficient, at President’s suggestion, separate Town-Planning Department of 400 people was created. Two large
town-planning exhibitions were organized – in 1936 and in 1938.
Warsaw, according to the slogan: „The front towards the Vistula River“, started to approach the river
(boulevards, the avenues on the Escarp and under the Escarp), to become more open for communication (inlet
and transit arteries: North – South, East – West). Functions of each part of the city were precisely defined. New
districts, streets, bridges, parks, buildings, tramway and bus lines and even the underground were designed.
Starzyƒski through his efficient activity proved that he is not only a dreamer setting plans for the future.
Five years of his presidency is a period of great changes and development of Warsaw. Despite many
difficulties the city became one of the most dynamically developing metropolis in Europe.
Unfortunately the outbreak of war precluded the realization of many plans and projects. It violently stopped
the vision of splendidly promising future of Warsaw.
Despite the fact that the plans of post-war reconstruction were realized according to the spirit and style of
those times, some previous town-planning solutions were adopted.
The visions of President Starzyƒski turned out to be timeless. Some, like bridge designs, were waiting for
realization for over 60 years.
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THE UNDERGROUND
The plans of building fast city railway were created in
1925. Sketchy project of two crossing lines: A - from Unii
Lubelskiej Square to Muranów and B - from Wola (Wolska
Street) to Praga (The Warsaw East Station) was ready in
1927. The department of the underground railway was
created in the Municipal Government and experimental
drillings were launched. Unfortunately, the 1929-1933 crisis
stopped the works.
In 1938, in the face of increasing public transport
difficulties, President of Warsaw Stefan Starzyƒski resumed
working on the project and created the Office of Studies
over Underground Railway. The modernization of the
previously designed lines started.
Line A - as the crucial for Warsaw, entirely underground,
had the beginning at Pu∏awska Street, farther it run through
Zbawiciela Square, The Main Station, squares: Napoleona
(now: Powstaƒców Warszawy), Teatralny, Krasiƒskich and
Muranowski, to Wilsona Square.
The length of the line was estimated at 7,5 km, train plying
frequency: every 3 minutes, distance between the stops:
about 650 m. Estimated costs: about 10 million z∏ for 1 km.
The second (B) line project was temporarily left as subject
of general consideration.
In 1939 the far advanced works proved that both lines
would be set in motion till the middle fourties. But the
outbreak of the World War II annihilated those plans for
many years.
from: Kronika Warszawy, 1982, nr 1
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THE BRIDGE AT KAROWA STREET
The project of rearrangement of the Saski Garden according to the previous plan of linking Marsza∏kowska Street
with Bankowy Square, from the collection of the Warsaw History Museum
During the presidency of Stefan
Starzyƒski construction of two new bridges
was planned. First, the bridge on the level
of Karowa and Brukowa Streets (now:
Okrzei St.), and later the Siekierkowski
bridge. Existing Kierbedzia bridge, built in
the sixties of XIX century, was overloaded
and needed at least two years for capital
repair. And Poniatowskiego bridge, which
was modern and larger, attended the
Southern part of the city.
In 1935 preliminary works on the
„Karowa Street bridge“ project were
started.
For the first time in the history of Polish
bridge-building, the design was treated
on a broad basis: taking technical
matters, town-planning and architecture
into consideration. New bridge was to be
the part of great East-West (W-Z)
communication artery, connecting Praga
and Wola. Its beginning is Wolska Street,
farther the tunnel under the Saski Garden
and Pi∏sudski Square and finally the
bridge and Radzymiƒska Street. The
project awarded at the contest in 1936,
chosen from eighteen designs, provided
for the construction of steel bridge on
stone pillars with communication let
above. The whole in sketches looked like
the Âlàsko-Dàbrowski bridge built after
the war.
The works on the technical project of the
bridge, which had the name of Marshall
Pi∏sudski, lasted from 1937. The start of
the construction was planned for 1941.
First prize at the contest for the bridge at Karowa Street, from: Wac∏aw Sterner, Mosty Warszawy, Warsaw1960
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THE MARSHALL PI¸SUDSKI DISTRICT
In the second half of the therties, with considerable expenditure of work,
new, representative district of Warsaw dedicated to Marshal Józef Pi∏sudski
was designed. It was worked out by outstanding town-planner Jan
Chmielewski.
It was to be created on the area including, from the Vistula River, Ujazdowski
Castle and Piaseczyƒski Canal and the greens connected with it, farther
Na Rozdro˝u Square and the Mokotowskie Fields to Grójecka St.
and Rac∏awicka St.
The axle of the foundation was the wide avenue, which started on Na
Rozdro˝u Square and reached, through Mokotowskie Fields, to the crossing
of Grójecka and Szcz´Êliwicka Streets. Its main elements were: Józef
Pi∏sudski monument on Na Rozdro˝u Square and Providence Temple in the
middle of the way between Niepodleg∏oÊci Avenue and Grójecka Street.
Marshall Pi∏sudski District, from Rozwój Stolicy, Warsaw 1938
The Field of Glory in the Mokotowskie Fields design, from the collection of Warsaw History Museum
The Providence Temple designs had been worked out for the first time in the
late XVIII century, but they were not realized then. The idea was coming back
many times. In 1931 the monumental design by professor Bohdan Pniewski
won the contest. According to that project the temple was to be built first on
the axle of Sejmowa Avenue, later in the Pi∏sudski District, as its dominant.
The designed three-aisle church with great steeple similar to the Prudential,
the highest building in Warsaw, had in the front large public meetings square
called The Field of Glory.
To the outbreak of war only one representative building was constructed in
the Mokotowskie Fields. It was the Main Patent Office building.
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Providence Temple, design by professor Bohdan Pniewski, from Architektura
i Budownictwo, 1938, R.14
BOULEVARDS OVER THE VISTULA BANK
The slogan of „turning Warsaw’s face towards the Vistula“ was
being popularized and constantly realized in the therties by
President of Warsaw Stefan Starzyƒski.
Arteries of communication and boulevards with representative
buildings were to be created along the Vistula.
Gdaƒskie and Gdyƒskie wasts (from Kierbedzia bridge to
Krasiƒskiego Street in ˚oliborz, in plans to Camedolite Church in
Bielany) were marked out and asphalted. Buildings in the bank of
the Vistula at the KoÊciuszkowskie Coast, the Castle gardens and
the Citadel slopes were set in order.
Professor Oskar Sosnowski, the author of the study over the
reconstruction of Northern district of Warsaw, was the outstanding
architect of the times.
There were also plans of the extension of boulevards to the
South, from Poniatowskiego bridge to Siekierki and Wilanów.
In 1935 the most impressive investment, the construction of twostorey, stone Gdaƒski Boulevard, was launched. 600 meters from
previously planned 3 km fragment was opened and became the
favourite walking passage of Warsaw inhabitants.
Simultaneously the projects of displaying extraordinary
panoramic values of the Escarp view inspired architects. Town-
planners suggested constructing two-layer routes from Natolin to
the designed bridge near Karowa Street: the Avenue on the Escarp
to show the sight-seeing panorama and the Avenue under the
Escarp designed for the transport and communication purpose.
The works were to have started from Rozdro˝e Square to Karowa
Street but the World War II destroyed the plans.
Gdaƒskie Coast, from the collection of Warsaw History Museum
The Escarp over the Vistula River: design of walking and view arteries, from: Warszawa Przysz∏oÊci, Warsaw 1935
Boulevards over the Vistula River
photo Z. Chom´towska, from the collection of
Warsaw History Museum
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EXHIBITION AREAS
The idea of organizing great exhibitions, called world-wide or
universal, arose together with the industrialization in Europe in
the XIXth century.
The idea of organizing that kind of regular exhibition in
Warsaw arose around 1904.
From the beginning it was to be located in Saska K´pa,
because of the plane, void space, the proximity of the city and
good connection with the city by the designed bridge
(Poniatowskiego). In the period from 1904 to 1938 many
designs were presented, but none of them was realized.
According to the President Stefan Starzyƒski’s postulates the
opening of the exhibition was to take place in 1944, to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of the regained independence.
Juliusz Nagórski was the author of the most interesting and
full of spirit design.
The 1934 design planned making use of both sides of the
river, like the KoÊciuszkowskie Coast, the Praski Port, Saska
K´pa and Miedzeszyƒski Bank. Newly constructed pavillions,
buildings, recreation areas and alleys were linked with
underground tunnels. The Vistula banks were connected by
three new bridges.
The Nagórski’s design was clipped for the financial reasons in
1938. Then the today’s Dziesićiolecia Stadium and farther,
behind the railway bridge, to the Praski Port was the basic
exposition area. Only exceptionally it could be enlarged to the
area of the Paderewski Park and the KoÊciuszkowskie Coast.
Along Zieleniecka St. the central exhibition alley ending with
the huge (150m-200m) pavillion was to run.
At the Vistula banks between Poniatowskiego Bridge and
railway bridge surrounded with greens the monumental building
of Industry and Technology Museum was planned. It was
designed by prof. Bohdan Pniewski who modeled his project
after famous Paris Trocadero complex.
The Exhibition Organization Committee under the leadership
of the President of Warsaw was called on 25.11.1938. The
exhibition was to be the profitable venture and the impulse for
the Warsaw development. Thanks to the exhibition the
residential district of the uniform character was constructed in
Saska K´pa before the war.
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Exhibition areas perspective, design by Juliusz Nagórski, from: Rozwój stolicy,
Warsaw 1938
Industry and Technology Museum, design by Bohdan Pniewski, from the collection of
National Museum in Warsaw
SPORTS PARK IN SIEKIERKI
The Vistula Valley traditionally divided Warsaw into two parts. Since
1916 this green strip over the Vistula planned to be managed. The
first modern town-planning scheme was worked out by Architects
Circle under the leadership of prof. Tadeusz To∏wiƒski. This project
provided the plans of creating new sports and recreation areas, for
example „Great National Park“ in Siekierki. But difficult economical
situation of that time caused the failure of those plans.
The idea of creating Sports and Recreation Park in Siekierkowski
Curve, with stadiums, sports fields, swimming-pools, tennis courts
and the whole management of the Vistula bank returned during the
presidency of Stefan Starzyƒski. It was one of the most important
projects of the therties, worked out by the General Plan Group
directed by the architect Marian Spychalski with the co-operation of
the most outstanding Polish sportsmen.
The park was to have spread out on the vast area of 160 ha, on the
drained Siekierkowsko-Czerniakowska plain.
The preparations were so advanced, that at the 36th Session of the
International Olympic Committee in 1937 in Warsaw President
Starzyƒski expressed his support for the idea of organising Olympic
Games in Warsaw in the nearest future (that is in 1944 or 1948).
In the Northern part of the Vistula Valley, on K´pa Potocka, second
large the People’s Sports Park was designed in the same time.
From: Rozwój stolicy, Warsaw, 1938
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OCCUPATION RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
During the period of occupation in official town-planning studios
conspiratorial groups of architects and town-planners were working
on the plans of future reconstruction and remodeling of Warsaw.
Ideas of further Warsaw development were very varied.
Quite compact and uniform vision of future spatial shape was
outlined in secret studios of Town-Planning Department of Municipal
Government, Specialists Commission of Town-Planning and TownPlanning Studio in The Architecture Department of Warsaw
Polytechnics. The plans created there were the continuation of prewar designs. Reconstruction of the majority of monuments and the
whole parts of Warsaw was planned for the post-war years.
Architecture and Town-planning Studio in ˚oliborz, which
continued the traditions of pre-war „Praesens“ group, had different
vision of the city. It assembled the leftist architects and was
connected with so-called international vanguard, which propagated
radical changes in the town-planning ideas concerning the city.
Apart from official activity consisting in, among other things, working
out the reconstruction designs of Rakowiec and Ko∏o housing
estates, they were working on the utopian vision of „perfect city“.
Planned in details housing estates, sometimes with so-called
community life strip, in view looked like camps not like residential
districts. The greater part of those designs were never realized.
During the reconstruction of Warsaw monumental area was limited
to the Old Town and Royal Route (with ¸azienki Park and Wilanów).
Great part of materials and designs gathered and compiled
during the occupation was saved. After the war they were the
valuable source of information to make up the listing of damages,
sketchy reconstruction plans and next town-planning studies.
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Design by: Szymon and Helena Sykurs, from: Niels Gutschow,
Barbara Klain, Vernichtung und Utopie, Stadtplanung Warschau
1939-1945, Hamburg, 1994
THE PROJECT OF THE CENTRE OF WARSAW BY MACIEJ NOWICKI
The Warsaw ÂródmieÊcie spatial composition project, worked out in
1945 within the works of Capital City Reconstruction Office (BOS) by
Maciej Nowicki, one of the most outstanding Polish architects. Due to
this is called „Nowicki’s vision“. Even a glance may justify the opinion
that the project is original and innovatory.
The future „City“, that is to say trade and administration centre,
means sky-scrapers with offices, hotels, administration department,
shopping centers on the terraces - raised in relation to the rest of
buildings, and even the Congress Hall with slinged roof.
Partly two-storey streets and crossings, for example of Jerozolimskie
Avenues with Marsza∏kowska Street, were proposed for more efficient
transport and communication purposes. Another proposition was
Nowicki’s innovatory idea of application of great prefabricated units in
constructions. The designed centre was supposed to be connected with
the Vistula River. It meant that the recreation grounds over the Vistula
bank were to have been the continuation of the Stanis∏awowska Pivot.
Parliament building round, light in construction, enlarged mass of
the National Museum and reconstructed Ujazdowski Castle were
planned, among other things, at the Escarp upper terrace, above the
greens of the lower one. The Nowicki’s project, although not having
come true, still fascinates, not only architects and town-planners.
Parliament building in Warsaw, perspective sketch, from: Tadeusz Barucki, Maciej Nowicki,
Warsaw, 1986
The downtown, perspective sketch, from: Tadeusz Barucki, Maciej Nowicki,
Warsaw, 1986
The downtown, perspective sketch, from: Tadeusz Barucki, Maciej Nowicki,
Warsaw, 1986
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FUTURE AND PAST SILHOUETTE OF
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Pre-war PowiÊle – is a typical example of bad, chaotic structures of the city.
The Vistula escarp greens and beautiful historic Warsaw silhouette were covered
up with jerry-buildings mixed with factory and usable structures of different
character. The inter-war period efforts to arrange the coast could not reach
the right result. Few high chimneys
artificial exhaust chimneys’ tin tubes
smoke. The motorway asphalts neigh
The main conception of the new Warsaw
1. The today’s Warsaw power plant at the
KoÊciuszkowskie Coast will soon be
moved to the industrial district in
˚eraƒ. By that the exposition of the old
Ks. Ostrogskich Palace (A), the
today’s seat of the Conservatory, the
future Chopin district centre, will be
possible.
3. Âw. Krzy˝a church, of which only belfrytops were visible in the chaos of the blocks
of flats, will be exposed. The Polish
science centre – the Staszica Palace and
the culture centre – the Polski Theatre (C),
will be visible next to the church. The
insurance buildings’ tower, overwhelming
the whole surroundings, will disappear.
5. The old Kazimierzowski Palace, today’s
seat of Warsaw University, will become
similar to the form in which Dahlberg
had seen it in 1656. The terraces
surrounded by the greenery will connect
the Palace with the Vistula bank.
2. The Prudential building, severely
destroyed, will probably be lowered
and will disappear amongst other skyscrapers in the commerce district (B).
At the foot of the Escarp, amongst
abundant greenery, light recreation
areas’ pavillions will spread.
4. The smoking workshops’ chimneys will not
be reconstructed. Instead – the
characteristic Protestant chapel copula
(D) will appear into the view of observer
looking from the Vistula side.
6. The elegant silhouette of the Wizytki
church will not be overwhelmed anymore
by the buildings rising next to it. The
surroundings’ scale will be proper to this
light architecture.
7. The Bristol Hotel will soon lose the
competition with the wide-spread
buildings framing the mouth of the
XVIIIth century Saska pivot (E).
WARSAW FROM THE VISTULA BANK
had disappeared, but replacing them
still filled the city and the coast with
boured and alternated with side-tracks.
forming will be to expose the escarp which
8. The Radziwi∏∏owski Palace, today’s
Cabinet’s seat will be connected with
the coast by spacious terraces, just like
it was in the moment of its erection.
9. The Carmelite church will make
a compositional unity with the exposed
monastic buildings (F).
10. The Jab∏onowskich Palace (later the
City Hall) restoration is doubtful.
From the Warsaw silhouette will
probably disappear the City Hall tower
which is not well harmonized with it.
will be created as a monumental basis for the buildings of the most
important district – centre of the social disposal. Old, historic Warsaw silhouette
known from the XVIIth century Dahlberg’s engravings will be simultaneously
restored.
11. The building at Nowy Zjazd St., known
from Schicht’s advertisement, overwhelming the coast, will disappear
exposing the monumental buildings of
Towarzystwo DobroczynnoÊci (G).
12. One of the most beautiful Warsaw churches will also be exposed – Bernardines’ church. The gothic apse, which
was brought back to former state few
years before the war, will also be exposed.
13. Nowy Zjazd St. passers-by were able to
see only the roof of the Pod Blachà Palace. After destroying the ugly Pancer
viaduct, the whole architecture of the
Palace will be visible again.
14. The Royal Castle will be restored in its
former state. As the only one of the
buildings standing on the escarp the
Castle was well connected with the coast.
Nowadays Castle guard barracks
limiting the expanse of the park
assumption will be also destroyed.
15. The PKO tenement house, which has
blemished the varied Old Town
silhouette rising above since the interwar period, will disappear. The
Cathedral restored to its previous form
(from the period before Idzikowski’s
reconstruction) will have an adequate
surroundings.
wg „Przeglàd Budowlany” 1946, R. 18 z. 1-12
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SIX-YEAR PLAN
The year 1949 conventionally closed the
first period of the Warsaw reconstruction,
with reference to the pre-war output and
the occupation works of Polish townplanners. After 1948 the politics came into
the designing works and together with the
progressive liquidation of the Capital City
Reconstruction
Office
other
city
development conceptions started to
stand.
In the period from 1950 to 1955,
according to the 6-year plan assumptions,
town-planners tried to transform Warsaw
into completely new city. So-called
socrealistic monumentalism appeared in
the architecture and town-planning
creation. Great scale of the designed
assumptions and constructed buildings
was to correspond with magnitude of the
socialistic regime and praise it. From this
point the general rebuilding of the
downtown and the new industrial and
residential districts development was
planned. The constructed part is, among
other things, Palace of Culture and
Science with Defilad Square, the
Marsza∏kowska Residential District (MDM)
with Konstytucji Square and office
buildings in the area of Krucza Street.
The complex vision of Warsaw in 1955,
shown in the album „SzeÊcioletni plan
odbudowy Warszawy“, is completely
different from the Polish town-planning
tradition. Fortunately, in the major part it
stayed on the drawing boards.
Trzech Krzy˝y Square, from Boles∏aw Bierut, Plan szeÊcioletni, Warsaw, 1951
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New Marsza∏kowska St. – view from the Mokotowskie Field, from: Boles∏aw Bierut,
Plan szeÊcioletni, Warsaw, 1951
The corner of Marsza∏kowska St. and Jerozolimskie Av., from: Boles∏aw Bierut, Plan szeÊcioletni,
Warsaw, 1951
WARSAW
TODAY
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In the last ten years Warsaw has become one of the most rapidly developing capital cities in Europe. The
view of the city has changed. The Warsaw panorama was traversed by numerous sky-scrapers. Office and
financial centres were constructed, some squares were built over and closed. New areas of the compact
building, the great companies, banks and trade centres buildings testify to the exuberant investing motion.
The presented photos show selected parts of the city – the examples of right decisions or the lack of
them.
The architects, the town-planners and the authorities are those who create the image of the capital city
of the new times.
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Nowy Âwiat St.
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Zamkowy Square
Âwi´tojaƒska St.
Krakowskie PrzedmieÊcie St.
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TRZECH KRZY˚Y SQUARE
St Aleksander’s Church, Holland Park
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Ksià˝ća St., in the distance appears the Stock Exchange building
Sheraton Hotel
TEATRALNY SQUARE
Artistic Circles Church, Jab∏onowskich Palace
Jab∏onowskich Palace
Wielki Theatre
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KRASI¡SKICH SQUARE
Krasiƒskich Palace, The Supreme Court building
Krasiƒskich Palace, The Supreme Court building
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Miodowa St.
In the distance appears Garrison Church
PI¸SUDSKI SQUARE
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THE DEFILAD SQUARE AREA
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Romana Dmowskiego Roundabout
KONSTYTUCJI SQUARE
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The corner of Jerozolimskie Av. and Cha∏ubiƒskiego St.
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Jerozolimskie Av., TUiR WARTA S.A. Headquarters
Zawiszy Square
Reform Plaza
Jerozolimskie Av.
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Towarowa St., Kolmex building
Towarowa St., Daewoo Centre
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The corner of Towarowa St. and SolidarnoÊci Av.,
office and hotel complex
Z∏ota St., Holiday Inn Hotel
Emilii Plater St., Warsaw Financial Centre
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Jana Paw∏a II Av., Atrium complex
Jana Paw∏a II Av., Atrium Business Center
ONZ Roundabout
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Jana Paw∏a II Av., Atrium Plaza
Prosta St., Ilmet complex
Jana Paw∏a II Av., Mirowska Market
Jana Paw∏a II Av., Les Tours BRC
Jana Paw∏a II Av., Mercure Hotel
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˚elazna St.,
Sienna Center
Koszykowa St.,
Norway House
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Koszykowa St.,
IPC Business Center
Marsza∏kowska St., Saski Point
Nowogrodzka St., Nautilus
Ksià˝ća St., Stock Exchange Centre
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Armii Ludowej Av., Focus Filtrowa
Pu∏awska St., The Rodan – System company office
building
Chmielna St., Aktyn Business Center
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Pu∏awska St., Pu∏awska Financial Centre
Pu∏awska St., Silver Screen cinemas
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Pu∏awska St.
Ostrobramska St.
Jerozolimskie Av.
Marsza∏kowska St.
Defilad Square
Ochota Station area
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Szczeciƒskie Coast, Dziesićiolecia Stadium
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Merliniego St.
„Warszawianka“ swimming-pools
Jagielloƒska St.
swimming-pool
¸azienkowska St.
„Torwar” sports hall
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Dobra St., Warsaw University Library
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Politechniki Square, Warsaw Polytechnics Library
Jazdy Polskiej Roundabout, „Riviera” Student Hostel
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Kondratowicza St.
Warszawa Targówek Borough City Hall
Modliƒska St.
Warszawa Bia∏o∏´ka Borough City Hall
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Powstaƒców Âlàskich St.
Warszawa Bemowo Borough City Hall
Tenement houses at ¸ucka St.
Rac∏awicka St.
Szucha Av., Melody House
Ró˝ana St., Flower House
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Bukowiƒska St., „Pod Or∏em“ Residence
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Zàbkowska St., municipal buildings
Meissnera St.
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Targowa St.
Zàbkowska St.
municipal buildings
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Zàbkowska St.
municipal buildings
Babka Roundabout
Powàzkowska St.
Miedziana St.
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Jana Paw∏a II Av.
Wielicka St., „Przy Królikarni“ suites
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Sobieskiego St.
Pró˝na St.
Kruczkowskiego St., the circus
Waliców St.
Mokotowska St.
Targowa St.
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The corner of ˚elazna and Grzybowska Sts
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Krakowskie PrzedmieÊcie St., Bristol Hotel
Teatralny Square, Jab∏onowskich Palace
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Paƒska St.
Chmielna St.
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Paƒska St.
Lwowska St.
Ujazdowskie Av., Sobaƒskich Palace
KoÊciuszkowskie Coast, Grey Villa
Zielna St., Pasta building, Zielna Point
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Bielaƒska St., Varsovian Insurrection Museum
Waliców St., Aurum – The State Mint office building
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¸azienkowska St., Rodziny Rodzin Matki
Boskiej Jasnogórskiej Church
Komisji Edukacji Narodowej Av.
Wniebowstàpienia NMP Church
Âw. Bonifacego St.
NMP Matki Mi∏osierdzia Church
Domaniewska St.
NMP Matki KoÊcio∏a Church
Rzymowskiego St., St Maximilian Maria
Kolbe’s Church
Antoninów, Po∏udniowy Cementary
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JEROZOLIMSKIE AV. AREA, BEHIND ZACHODNI STATION
Jerozolimskie Business Park
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The Philips company building
Taifun Office Building
Reduta shopping centre
Reform Center
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KASPRZAKA ST. AREA
The Ericsson company building
Alexander Business Center
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Powszechny Bank Kredytowy
Bank Gospodarki ˚ywnoÊciowej
Kredyt Bank
Kredyt Bank
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WO¸OSKA AND PU¸AWSKA
STREETS AREA
Mokotów Business Park
The Pfizer company building
BTA Office centre
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Office building
Galeria Mokotów
Curtis Plaza
Plaza 2000
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Syreny Bridge, Âwi´tokrzyski Bridge under construction
Ârednicowy Bridge
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Poniatowskiego Bridge
Wawelska St.
Jana Paw∏a II Av.
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PLANS FOR
THE FUTURE
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This section presents the designs and the plans of the development of Warsaw, which were reported by
architects, town-planners and the City institutions and offices.
Due to limited means and capacity of the exhibition, the promotors were forced to select the materials
considering the spatial aspect and social quality of the city.
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Z¸OTA CENTRE
Location
the area of Jana Paw∏a II Av., Z∏ota St.,
Emilii Plater St. and Central Station
Town planning conception author
The Jerde Partnership International
Client
ING Real Estate, Centrum Borough
Design
1998
Technical data
Total volume: about 950 000 m3
Total area: about 205 000 m2
Usable floor area without parkings:
about 125 000 m2
Parking places: about 1 400
Underground storeys: 5
Overground storeys: 26 (hotel)
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THE THREE–FRONTS HOUSE OF INCOME
Location
3 Trzech Krzy˝y Sq., 51 Ujazdowskie Av., 64 Mokotowska St.
Architects
Andrzej and Barbara Kaliszewscy, Bohdan Napieralski,
Lech K∏osiewicz
Client
TOP – 2000 Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Total volume: 39 246 m3
Usable floor area: 9 056.9 m2
Garages: 1
Parking places: 44
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„TWARDA“ OFFICE BUILDING
Location
Twarda St.
Architects
Bulanda, Mucha – Architekci Ltd.
W∏odzimierz Mucha, Andzrzej Bulanda, Anna Albiniak,
Seweryn Grobelny, Andrzej Gomu∏ka, Mariusz Korytkowski
Associate architects
Marta Bus∏owicz, Rafa∏ Turno, Jaros∏aw Ptaszyƒski,
Filip Kuêniar, Piotr Rembowski, Maciek Wysoczaƒski
Client
Foreigners Service Office „DIPSERVICE“
Design
1999
Technical data
Total area: 21 340 m2
Usable floor area: 17 716 m2
Storeys: 9 overground, 4 underground
Underground garage
Parking places: 36 overground, 128 underground
WESTERN ELEVATION
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TRADE AND SERVICE CENTRE WITH
WARSZAWA WILE¡SKA TRAIN STATION
Location
corner of Targowa St. and SolidarnoÊci Av.
Architects
Biuro Projektowo - Realizacyjne Inter Comerce
Piotr Szeliƒski, Micha∏ Brutkowski, Piotr Schneider,
Dariusz Chmiel, Rafa∏ CieÊlak
Rafa∏ Langowski, Wojciech Szczepkowski, Wioletta Walczowska,
WAPW students: Micha∏ Dàdajewski, Wojciech Kopczyƒski,
Miros∏aw Kuêma, Jolanta Kazimieruk
Supplementary client
Inter Comerce Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 6
Parking places: 1 330
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PLATAN PARK 2
Location
Poleczki and Ho∏ubcowa Sts area
Architects
APA Wojciechowski Ltd.
Szymon Wojciechowski, Rafa∏ Pamu∏a,
Dariusz MaÊniak, Jakub Bazelak, Artur ¸uczak
Client
TOP 2000 Ltd.
Design
1999
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Technical data
Total volume: 232 772.40 m3
Total area: 29 432.1 m2
Storeys: 3
Parking places: 334
REPROGRAF BUILDING
Lokation
ul. Wolska 88
Architects
Stefan Kury∏owicz,
Marek SzczeÊniak,
Marcin Goncikowski
Client
Reprograf Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys:
overground – 4
underground – 1
Parking places: 52
WESTERN ELEVATION
SOUTHERN ELEVATION
EASTERN ELEVATION
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POLISH AIRLINES „LOT“ HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
Location
17 Stycznia St.
Architects
Stefan Kury∏owicz, Marek SzczeÊniak,
Katarzyna Flasiƒska-Rubik
Client
PLL „LOT“
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys:
overground – 7
underground – 1
Parking places: 152 in the garage
+ 130 on the area
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ATRIUM HOTEL
Location
29 Jana Paw∏a II Av.
Architects
John Portman & Associates
Skanska Teknik AB – Malmo – Sweden
Biuro Projektów Kazimierski i Ryba – Architekci civil company –
Warsaw
Skanska Polska Ltd. – Warsaw
Biuro Projektów Architektonicznych i Budowlanych „AiB“ Ltd.
Client
SKANSKA POLSKA Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Total volume: 87 674.3 m3 + 7 500 m3 „tube“
Building area: 1 962 m2
Storeys: 23; including 17 hotel storeys (floors 4-20)
Garage: 128 places
Hotel keys – 328 (hotel units)
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„OK¢CIE“ AIRPORT HOTEL
Location
„Okćie“ International Airport
Architects
Stefan Kury∏owicz, Ewa Kury∏owicz,
Tomasz Gientka, Katarzyna Stawowa,
Jaros∏aw Jegliƒski, Marcin Goncikowski
Client
Port – Hotel Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 5 hotel storeys, 3 garage storeys
Parking places: 1 434
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„HYATT REGENCY WARSAW“ HOTEL
Location
corner of Belwederska and Spacerowa Sts
Architects
Jerzy Czy˝, Leszek Klajnert,
Tomasz Tomaszewski
Dariusz Bodzioch,
tech. arch. Renata Bugalska,
Jean-Marie Dandoy,
Anna Federowicz, Pawe∏ Hofman,
Ronald Leemans
Client
COSMAR POLSKA Ltd.
Design
1998-1999
Technical data
Storeys: 5 underground, 8 overground
Parking places: 162 underground,
25 overground
Hotel rooms: 251
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WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE BUILDING FOR
THE „ROCHE POLSKA“ COMPANY
Location
3 Ordona St.
Architects
Lewant Ltd.
Studio manager: Bogdan ˚mijewski;
Zbigniew Majrowski,
Janusz Cymborski
Client
CELSA Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
office area: 510 m2
warehouse area: 3 297 m2
Storeys :
offices: 4
warehouse: 3
Parking places: 52
GROUND FLOOR VIEW
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NATIONAL GAS DISPOSITION HEADQUARTERS
Location
„Gazownia Warszawska“ area at
Kasprzaka St.
Architects
H.T.T. Ltd.
dr of architecture Zygmunt Hofman
Witold Thumenas
W∏odzimierz Abramczyk
Wojciech Ràbalski
Ma∏gorzata Teschich-Markiewicz
Marcin Baczewski, Jakub Lipski,
Artur Moniuszko, Joanna Przyborska
Client
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe
i Gazownictwo JSC
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 4 overground, 1 garage
underground
Parking places:
43 in the underground garage,
11 in the overground garage
RZUT 3. PI¢TRA
ELEWACJA ZACHODNIA
3TH FLOOR VIEW
WESTERN ELEVATION
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TVP JSC „B“ EDITORIAL OFFICE BUILDING
Location
TVP JSC area, corner of Woronicza
and Samochodowa Sts
Architects
dr of architecture Czes∏aw Bielecki,
Grzegorz Winczewski, Marek Kukawski,
Andrzej Pazdej
Client
TVP JSC
Technical data
overground: 62 000 m3
underground: 33 600 m3
overground: 10 043.4 m2
underground: 9 672.8 m2
Storeys:
underground – 2
overground – 12
Underground garage for 280 cars
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SPORTS HALL „POLONIA“
Location
corner of Bonifraterska and Mi´dzyparkowa streets
Architects
Stefan Kury∏owicz, Piotr Kuczyƒski,
Fryderyk Szymaƒski, Jacek Cieçwierz
Client
Warbud JSC
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 3, including:
overground – 1
underground – 2
Parking places: 105 in the garage + 237 on the area
+ 5 for buses
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INTER – SCHOOL SPORTS HALL
Technical data
Location
37 Redutowa St., additional construction
to existing primary school No. 238
Architects
ATI Architektura Technika Inwestycje Ltd.
Tomasz Lechowski, Pawe∏ Tr´bacz
dr of architecture Piotr Tr´bacz
Krzysztof Bàk
Client
Educational Institutions Service
Establishment in Warsaw
Design
1999
GROUND FLOOR VIEW
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AMERICAN SCHOOL
Location
Bielawa Konstancin-Jeziorna borough
Architects
Anatol Kuczyƒski, Tom Piotrowski,
James Templeton, Anna Kuczyƒska,
Agnieszka Bednarz
H2L2 Architecture Planning Interior Design,
PHILADELPHIA
Client
American School in Warsaw
Design
2000
RZUT PARTERU
Technical data
Ground floor: 13 452 m2
First floor: 10 998.9 m2
Second floor: 1 026.9 m2
Netto area: 19 719.4 m2
GROUND FLOOR VIEW
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ST. ANTHONY MARIA ZACCARIA’S PARISH CHURCH
Location
15 Jana Sobieskiego St.
Architect
Grzegorz Ratajski
Leonard Piórecki
Client
The St Paul Fathers – Barnabits
Gathering Polish Province
Design
1999
Technical data
Building area: 1 029.7 m2
90
CONCERT – SHELL
Location
The Ignacy Paderewski
Skaryszewski Park
Architects
„Spatium“ civil company
Studio Projektowe
Ryszard Grabowski, Piotr Mordka,
Andrzej Pastewka,
S∏awomir Stankiewicz,
S∏awomir Strój,
tech. arch. Agnieszka Konopka,
tech. arch. Edyta Kopliƒska,
students: Anna Jagie∏∏o,
Krzysztof ¸apacz,
Przemys∏aw Wielàdek
The tent roofing and mechanics
construction
engineer S∏awomir Rynek
Client
Warszawa Centrum Borough’s
Praga Po∏udnie District Office
Design
1999
Technical data
Usable floor area: 569.9 m2
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CARDIOLOGICAL HOSPITAL AND HOUSING COMPLEX
Location
Wilanowska Av.
Architects:
Wojciech Szymborski,
Jacek Zielonka, Jerzy Bogus∏awski,
Krzysztof M∏odzianowski,
Ma∏gorzata M∏odzianowska
Dariusz Bober, Barbara Por´bska,
architecture student Berenika Ziemkiewicz
Client
Civic Committee for the Marshall Józef
Pi∏sudski Cardiological Hospital
Construction
Design
1999
Technical data
Parking places: 96 in the garage,
63 on the outside parking
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HOUSING COMPLEX BY THE CARDIOLOGICAL HOSPITAL
Location
Wilanowska Av.
Architects
Wojciech Szymborski, Jacek Zielonka,
Jerzy Bogus∏awski
Dariusz Bober, Witos∏aw Kwieciƒski,
Jerzy Leszcze∏owski,
architecture student Leszek
Szymborski,
architects: Ewa Horoszkiewicz,
Robert Kondrat, Andrzej Majewski,
Marek Petrucznik, Mariusz Rosiek.
Client
Civic Committee for the Marshall Józef
Pi∏sudski Cardiological Hospital
Construction
Design
1999
Technical data
Flats: 600
Parking places: 910
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„WRÓBLEWO II“ HOUSING ESTATE
Location
53 Odkryta St.
Architects
GRUPA 5 Ltd.
Roman Dziedziejko, Mariusz Jasiƒski,
Miko∏aj Kad∏ubowski, Micha∏ Leszczyƒski,
Krzysztof Mycielski, Mariusz Szpotowicz
El˝bieta Jóêwik, architecture students:
Aureliusz Kowalczyk, Daniel Cwalina
Client
„Tarchomin“ Youth Building Society
Design
1999
Technical data
overground: 4 074.7 m2
Storeys: 4 and 1/2
Flats: 62
Parking places: 83, including
overground: 13
underground: 70
Flats area: 3 188 m2
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„OAZA“ SETTLEMENT
Location
Bitwy Warszawskiej 1920 r. St.
Architects
„ATELIER 2 Kucza-Kuczyƒski,
Miklaszewski“ Ltd.
Prof. Konrad Kucza-Kuczyƒski
Andrzej Miklaszewski,
Jan Kucza-Kuczyƒski, Marcin Krauze
Natalia Regulska, Monika Bobrowska,
Izabela Wencel
Client
„DOM DEVELOPMENT“ JSC
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys overground: 7, underground: 1
Flats: 191
Service rooms: 2
Parking places: 279 + 70 family parking
places, in total: 349
Flats area: 17 255.70 m2
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HOLLAND PARK SUITES
Location
Ksià˝ća St.
Architects
Stanis∏aw Kar∏owicz,
Marek Âwierczyƒski, Jacek WciÊlak,
Vera Yanovshtchinsky
Ervin de Maar, Marcin Jeziorski
Client
ING Real Estate
Design
1998
Technical data
Storeys: 20
Suites: 82
Parking places: 82
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PO¸UDNIOWA RESIDENCE
Location
corner of Wàwozowa St. and KEN Av.
Architects
FABI¡SKI, GOÇOWSKI – ARCHITEKCI Ltd.
Monika Trochym-Cynke, Piotr Goc∏owski, Jolanta Kiliƒska,
Joanna Roman, Marcin Kosma Rybak, Eliza Zielnik
Client
„Po∏udniowa“ Building Society
Design
1998
Technical data
Usable floor area: flats – 17 366 m2
usable rooms – 4 653 m2
recreation centre: 1 375 m2
Storeys overground: max 10
Flats: 226
Parking places: underground 344, overground 59
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BRÓDNOWSKI PASSAGE
Location
Targówek borough
Architects
Firma Projektowa Akcent Ltd.
Rafa∏ Bujnowski, Jan S∏yk, Rajmund S∏yk
stud. Grzegorz Gawrysiak, Anna Peterlejtner,
Karolina Tulkowska-S∏yk, Ma∏gorzata Sas
Client
WAR INWEST Investment and Construction
Establishment
Design
1998-preliminary design, 1999-2000 building
and executory design
Technical data
Storeys: 9-11
Flats: 495
Parking places: 847
in the underground garage: 779
in the overground garage: 68
Flats usable floor area: 26 784 m2
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SUITES BUILDING
Location
26 Joliot-Curie St.
Architects
ARTINEX, Krzysztof Wolski
Grzegorz Pyzikiewicz, Beata Koêliczak,
Patrycja Marcinkowska-Coi∏ek,
Magdalena Ga∏at-Kosieradzka,
Ma∏gorzata Matusiak,
Jacek Szatkowski,
tech. arch. Piotr Zwierzyƒski
Client
BATIMENT Ltd.
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 9, including
7 overground and 2 underground
Flats: 37
Parking places: 43 underground
5TH FLOOR VIEW
99
SAWA PARK TENEMENT AND SERVICE BUILDING
Location
6 Plac Przymierza St.
Architects
APA Wojciechowski Ltd.
Szymon Wojciechowski,
Jolanta Nowak, Aleksandra Gosiewska,
Sylwester Wójcik
Client
SAWA Development Ltd.
Design
1998
Technical data
Storeys: 7
Flats: 85
Parking places: 186, including
4 overground, 182 underground
100
SBM „MERCURY“ TENEMENT HOUSES COMPLEX
Location
corner of Dembego and Zaruby Sts
Architects
Grzegorz Stiasny, Jakub Wac∏awek
Piotr Cimachowski, Marcin Citko,
architecture students: Pawe∏ Gozdyra,
Wojciech Ingielewicz
Client
„Merkury“ Building Society
Design
1999
Technical data
Storeys: 4-7
Flats: 206
Parking places: 188
101
„LASEK“ HOUSING COMPLEX
Location
Bora Komorowskiego Av.
Architects
„Majewski, Wyszyƒski, Hermanowicz –
Architekci“
Wojciech Hermanowicz, Piotr Majewski,
Andrzej Wyszyƒski, Marek ˚arski,
Dorota Borysiewicz, Joanna Kopacz,
Agnieszka Kruszyƒska, Ewa Stanis∏awska,
El˝bieta Koz∏owska, Anna Âcis∏owska
Client
„OSIEDLE M¸ODYCH“ Labour Building
Society
Design
1999
Technical data of 16 detached atrium
houses with garages
Total volume: from 576 m3 to 668 m3
Total area: from 250 m2 to 260 m2
Storeys: 2
Technical data of tenement houses
Storeys: 7, 5, 4
Flats: 60
Parking places: 61 underground,
29 on the parking
102
„BORYSZEWSKA“ SUITES
Location
corner of Pu∏awska and Boryszewska Sts
Architects
Bogdan Kulczyƒski, Rados∏aw Sojka
Seweryn Grobelny, Piotr Prawdzik, Luigi Coletta,
Piotr Rembowski
Design
2000
Technical data:
Storeys: 15
Garages: 1
Flats: 75
Parking places: 130 underground, 18 overground
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NEW SPATIAL POLICY
FUNCTIONAL ZONES AND AREAS
central zone
central zone areas
C-1 strict Centre
C-2 historical and monumental complex
C-3 academic complex
C-4 park and recreation complex
housing and service zone
housing and service zone areas
MU - 1 building areas in forest plots
MU - 2 academic complexes areas
service and housing zone
service and technical zone
technical and production zone
natural zone
natural zone areas
0-1 protected
0-2 rest and recreation
0-3 recreation and housing
0-4 other
Service concentration areas
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Warsaw of the nineteen-nineties was primarily built by
private developers and investors whose main driving
force is the profit motive. It is not these investors who
are responsible for attention as to the way that buildings fit into the cityscape or the traffic system, however. Spatial policy guidelines and their implementation
rests with local government as one of its main responsibilities. New and cohesive vision of that policy, that is
presented by the President Piskorski in December
1999 „New Spatial Policy“, is the long expected system
of rules organizing Warsaw city space.
The task of the New Spatial Policy is to reconcile two
conflicting priorities: the maintenance of the current
historical character of the city’s tissue, including its
traditionally shaped space, with greater development
potential for the city in connection with the new urban
designs such as: ¸uk Siekierkowski [Siekierki Arc],
Centrum Zachodnie [Western Center], Port Praski
[Praga Port] and Gol´dzinów.
The development of the New Spatial Policy marks the
first time that Warsaw has reached out for modern
planning instruments such as height zoning and the
detailed defining of the building density. Unified road
and traffic system, higher urban infrastructure level,
balanced city development – these are only some of
the New Spatial Policy rules.
The New Spatial Policy endeavours not to create singlefunction areas that serve their purpose for only a part
of the day. The city, in each of its regions, should combine diverse functions and develop in a uniform manner. Thus, S∏u˝ewiec, ˚oliborz Przemys∏owy and ˚eraƒ
will cease to be industrial areas and will become the sites of new office buildings, supermarkets and recreational and amusement centers. New collegiate communities will now have an opportunity to spring up in
the PowiÊle or Pole Mokotowskie sections of Warsaw.
The New Spatial Policy by organizing Warsaw city space in a clear manner, is to create the city that would be
amicable, green, easy accessible, developing and attractive for the inhabitants, tourists and investors.
SOUTHERN STATION AREA –
COMMUNICATION SERVICE CONCEPTION
From the materials of the local spatial management plan design – 1998, elaboration by
BPRW. Chief communication designer:
M. Nadrowska
The designed service and housing construction
in the Southern Station area is situated on the
terrains with one of the best communication
service in Mokotów district. This area is the public transport junction. The city and sub-city
buses lines (for which the modern station is designed), tramway lines and the „Wilanowska“
Underground station meet here.
Building the 400 meter long tunnel for Niepodleg∏oÊci Av. will improve the traffic at the crossing of Pu∏awska St., Wilanowska St. and Niepodleg∏oÊci Av. New street on the Eastern side
of the area, parallel to the Warsaw Escarp, linking Wilanowska Av. with Pu∏awska St. and
Niepodleg∏oÊci Av. is planned.
The terrains which are to be built over will be
provided with the new access to street system
and the foot squares linked with the Underground station and bus and tramway stops.
The parkings will be created as the underground garages or the overground structures.
CENTRAL WARSAW AREA –
COMMUNICATION SERVICE CONCEPTION
From the materials of the local spatial management plan design – 1999-2000, communication
elaboration by BPRW. Chief communication
designer: M. Nadrowska
The public transport will be the basic communication system of the Central Warsaw Area, that is
the area of Z∏ota St. and the surroundings of the
Palace of Culture, communication service.
The Central Warsaw Area (CRW) is in the easy reach of the suburban, national and international
railways. It is surrounded by the bus and tramway
lines, which are to be privileged in the city traffic.
Two underground lines will lead to the new Centre
– the already existing one, under Marsza∏kowska
St. and the designed one, under Âwi´tokrzyska St.
According to the transport policy admitted by the
Warsaw Council, which has in its basis the strategy of the reasonable eco-development, the enlargement of the street system in the downtown
is not planned. Building the efficient routes passing the downtown, including the beltways will
be the condition of the traffic improvement in the
centre of Warsaw.
The entry to the CRW by the passenger car will
be through the existing, but being modernized
street system. The index of the parking places
in this area cannot be bigger than the traffic capacity of the streets allows. New parking places
will be created by the underground garages. The
largest parking complexes are planned at Z∏ota
St. and in the surroundings of the Palace of
Culture.
In the CRW area the parking on the pavements
will be progressively eliminated, especially
along the streets with the big number of service centres.
The underground foot passages are planned.
The most attractive foot passage will link the
underground passage by the Central Station
with the „Centrum“ I line underground station
and farther with the II line underground station
under the crossing of Marsza∏kowska and
Âwi´tokrzyska Sts.
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SPATIAL STRUCTURE ELEMENTS
BOARDERS
RESTRICTED HEIGHT
AREAS
Warsaw boarder
main roads
railways
D – restricted height areas near
airports
city greens
surface water
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM
natural area
B1 – up to 12 meters
air-change terrains system’s reach
terrains assisting the natural zone
natural connections
B6 – over 100 meters
the Escarp nearest protection area
C – defining the height
of the newly designed
and modernized
building needs
creating spatial
analysis considering
the terrain’s historical
conditions.
the Warsaw Escarp protection zones
city greens
allotments planned to be transformed into
the city greens
forests
Warsaw administration boarders
SERVICE CONCENTRATION
AREAS
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Height Restrictions
Warsaw’s environmental system
The New Spatial Policy introduces a new instrument for control: building height restriction. These restrictions are to serve the protection of historical places against change
and define just where what kinds of projects may be built. Thus, Mariensztat or Saska
K´pa will only allow low-rise buildings, while skyscrapers with heights of over 100
m may be built in the Centrum Zachodnie (the area defined by Jerozolimskie Av., Prymasa Tysiàclecia Av., Wolska St. and Jana Paw∏a II Av.) as well as in the Praga Port. Houses should be below 25 m in the PowiÊle area in order not to rise up above the Vistula River’s embankment.
Guided by the principle of sustainable development, the New Spatial Policy places
great weight on matters linked with environmental protection. The main components of
Warsaw’s nature systems are for example aeration belts (including the Vistula River
valley, the land overlooking the Vistula River embankment and land south of Powàzkowska St.), land making up the Warsaw Landscape Conservation Area, nature reserves,
parks and squares. The New Spatial Policy proposes the establishment of the Warsaw
Embankment Nature and Landscape Complex and defines minimal requirements as to
biologically active space and allowable building density for Warsaw Centrum Borough.
ROAD NETWORK
The today’s road network is Warsaw’s main development
barrier. Today, both through traffic as well as transit from
one end of the city to the other leads through the center.
This only aggravates the traffic jams already common there. Such a situation can only be remedied through the building of a system of bypass routes, which will allow to organize the inter-city and transit traffic. That system, proposed in the Contract for Warsaw, will consist of:
– downtown bypass – composed of existing Okopowa
St., ¸azienkowska Route, Gdaƒski Bridge and planned in
Praga Tysiàclecia Route.
– inner bypass – composed of express routes (N-S Route,
AK Route and Olszynka Grochowska Route) and main
streets (Siekierkowska Route, Rzymowskiego and Marynarska Sts).
– external bypass – (Most Pó∏nocny Route, Olszynka Grochowska Route, the A2 highway).
ROAD NETWORK
EXISTING PLANNED
highway
expressways
main thoroughfares
main streets
toll road - the basic road network element
Warsaw boarders
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CENTRAL QUARTER BELTWAY – PRAGA SECTION
VARIANT 1 TYSIÑCLECIA AV.
From the materials of the Tysiàclecia Av. technical
study – 1999; elaboration by BPRW. Chief designer:
W. Strza∏kowska-Malasek
VARIANT 2 ÂW. WINCENTEGO–NOWO-RZECZNA–WIATRACZNA STS.
– STREETS ON A GROUND LEVEL
– STREETS ON A VIADUCT
– STREETS IN AN EXCAVATION
– TRAMWAY LINES
– BUS STOPS
– TRAMWAY STOPS
– DESIGNED DEMARCATION LINES
– DESIGNED BICYCLE ROUTES
– PEDESTRIAN LINES WITHOUT COLLISIONS
SITUATION SOLUTION OF TYSIÑCLECIA AV. – SZMULKI AREA
COMMUNICATION:
– STREETS ON A GROUND LEVEL
– STREETS ON A VIADUCT
– STREETS IN AN EXCAVATION
– DESIGNED PEDESTRIAN LINES WITHOUT COLLISIONS
– BUS STOPS
– TRAMWAY STOPS
– DESIGNED DEMARCATION LINES FROM
THE WARSAW GENERAL PLAN
– DESIGNED DEMARCATION LINES
– THE NATIONAL POLISH RAILWAYS TERRAINS BOARDERS
BUILDINGS:
– EXISTING, FOR PRESERVATION
– LOCATION PROPOSITIONS
– MONUMENTAL
– GARAGES
– TO DEMOLITION
– OVERGROUND PARKING ZONES
GREENERY:
– GREENS ABOUT 15 METERS WIDE
– ROWS OF TREES
HIGH DOMINANTS LOCATIONS:
ACOUSTIC PROTECTIONS:
– POSSIBLE STRAIGHT SHIELDS –
NECESSITY OF DETAIL ANALYSIS
– HALF–TIGHT SHIELDS
– INCREASING THE BUILDINGS OUTSIDE
BARRIERS’ ISOLATION
– POSSIBLE INCREASING THE BUILDINGS
OUTSIDE BARRIERS’ ISOLATION
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Two variants of the Central Quarter beltway route in
the area of the right-bank Warsaw were presented.
Variant 1: beltway route through: Starzyƒskiego St.,
being designed Tysiàclecia Av., Stanów Zjednoczonych Av.
Variant 2: beltway route through: Starzyƒskiego St.,
Âw. Wincentego St., being designed Nowo-Trocka St.
and Nowo-Rzeczna St., Stanów Zjednoczonych Av.
Warsaw Centrum Borough Office chose variant 1 route, through designed Tysiàclecia Av., due to many
criteria.
The beltway was designed as a thoroughfare.
Two streets, 2 or 3 lanes each, will lead the traffic
avoiding the possibility of collisions over or under the
present streets, railroads and recreation areas arrangement.
Picture 3 presents one fragment of the detail solution
of the Tysiàclecia Av. section in the Szmulki area.
The route was led through the excavation boarded by
the revetments which might be covered with ceiling.
Protection from the arduousness of the beltway is
provided with acoustical boards, green strips and increasing the window isolation in the buildings located
in the nearest distance from the beltway.
A2 MOTORWAY VARIANT – WARSAW SECTION
From the materials to the localisation indication – 1996,
designed by BPRW
Presented A2 motorway is one of the analysed variants of
the route course in the Warsaw area. The motorway will
be the important element in the thoroughfares system of
the city.
Its main functions will be:
Distribution of regional, inland and international motion,
the destination of which Warsaw is, to the basic streets’
scheme. Creating convenient connections between distant districts. To protect the Centre of Warsaw from the
motion not connected with the city area.
The attendance of the „Okćie“ airport will be the important task of this motorway variant.
The conception of the motorway solutions plans the tunnel under Ursynów. The route will be provided with the
modern means reducing the negative effect on the natu-
ral environment and life conditions of the inhabitants. The
installations protecting from noise, rain sewage treatment
plants and the pollution purification installations for the
tunnel under Ursynów are planned. Special passages for
the animals are assigned in the forest areas.
The works over the other variants of the A2 motorway route in Warsaw are being simultaneously conducted. They
are to enable the authorities to take the final decision about the motorway route in the Warsaw area.
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PARKING CONCEPTION IN CENTRUM BOROUGH
PARKING ZONES
I A ZONE
I B ZONE
II B ZONE
UNDERGROUND PARKINGS
P&R STRATEGIC PARKINGS
CHANGE JUNCTIONS
THE UNDERGROUND – EXISTING LINE
THE UNDERGROUND – DESIGNED LINES
RAILWAY LINES
From the study of conditions and
directions of the Warsaw’s Centrum
Borough spatial management design –
1998-2000, elaborated by BPRW. Chief
designer: A. Trochimowski
The parking conception was submitted to
the general goals of the Warsaw transport
policy. The policy plans: assurance of the
priority for the public transport service in
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the central area, reduction of the
passenger cars access to various areas by
estimating maximum, varied for each area,
parking places indexes. This policy will be
realized by the proper traffic organization
and paid parking zones.
The greatest parking reductions will be in
the zone I. The arrangement of the parking
will come about by the distinct division of
parking places, pedestrians areas and
traffic. Two sub-areas (Ia and Ib) were
distinguished in the zone I. They vary with
the indexes of parking places for different
kinds of cars.
In the zone II: the traffic in the areas of
concentrated motion will be reduced,
parking by the kerb on the main public
transport routes will be eliminated. The
parking indexes will be higher than in the
zone I.
In the zone III the parking will have higher
indexes than in the zone II.
To arrange the parking in the central area,
construction of a number of underground
parkings is planned. Next to the
underground stations at the boarder of
Centrum Borough P&R parkings will be
constructed.
MASS PUBLIC TRANSIT
EXISTING PLANNED
rail lines and conjunctivas
subway lines and conjunctiva
tramway lines
alternative rail transportation run
for the „Okćie“ airport
rail stations and stops
subway stations
tramway loops
average tramway loops
EXISTING
PLANNED
subway lines and conjunctivas
subway stations
technical and stopping
subway stations
Warsaw boarders
multipodal freight movement
service centre
technical and stopping subway stations
tramway depots
Warsaw boarders
Due to the New Spatial Policy rail transportation has priority in a case of public transit.
The development of mutually complementary subway, tramway and railway systems,
supported by modern traffic control systems, will allow to solve public transport problems.
The completion of subway Line No 1, which would have its end at M∏ociny station, is dependent on the procurement of necessary funding as the Contract for Warsaw stipulates. The city would like to find investors willing to finance subway Line No 2 connecting
Bemowo with Targówek. In the long term, plans also include subway Line No 3, leading
from the Dworzec Zachodni to Goc∏aw.
Mass public transit will be facilitated by the introduction of modernized additional tram
lines (Bemowo – Wilanów, Powstaƒców Âlàskich St. – Reymonta St. and the line leading
to Tarchomin along Most Pó∏nocny Route), which will connect the main Warsaw junctions. Incorporation of WKD and EKD [suburban railroad lines] into Warsaw’s transit
system and modernization of existing Warsaw railroad lines are also planned.
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT CONCEPTION IN CENTRUM BOROUGH
THE UNDERGROUND – EXISTING LINE
THE UNDERGROUND – DESIGNED LINES
RAILWAY LINES
RAILWAY STATIONS
RAILWAY STOPS
AIRPORT – CENTRUM UNCONVENTIONAL RAILWAY
TRAMWAY – EXISTING LINES
TRAMWAY – STUDIED LINES
BUS TERMINALS
OK¢CIE AIRPORT
BUS DEPOTS
TRAMWAY DEPOTS
From the materials of the study of conditions and directions of the Warsaw’s Centrum Borough spatial management design
– 1998-2000, elaboration by BPRW.
Chief designer: A. Trochimowski
The final public transport system in the
Centrum Borough will be created by mutually completing: the underground, the bus
and the tramway networks.
The Underground system will consist of
three lines:
– I line – Kabaty – M∏ociny
– II line – Wola (Jelonki) – Wileƒski Station (and Targówek)
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– III line – Ochota (Zachodni Station)
through the Praga centre (Wschodni
Station) to Grochów (Wiatraczna Roundabout) and Goc∏aw
Linking together the II and the III underground lines in the Praga centre is not only functionally, but also technically possible. This matter needs detail studies.
The existing tramway system maintenance and modernization of it in the Borough
area was accepted.
The need of considering the new and of
the higher standard tramway lines construction appears from the functional and
motorial analysis carried out for the who-
le city. In the Warsaw-Centrum Borough
area it would be the line connecting Wola
(Górczewska St. – Prymasa Tysiàclecia
St.) and Ochota (Bitwy Warszawskiej St.)
with Mokotów (Batorego St. or Rostafiƒskich-Rakowiecka Sts) and Wilanów (Sobieskiego St.). The decision of the works
should be made after working out the
practicability study.
The bus will still be the most common
mean of transport. Various functions of
this kind of communication will be connected with using different types of means of transport and different forms of the
transport organization.
Introducing the reductions in using passenger cars in the city centre should be
made up by launching the inner, downtown bus transport, provided with special,
adapted to the conditions, means of transport.
The change junctions have the special meaning for the functioning of the transport
system. The plans of improving and adapting the junctions to the needs of handicapped people is taken under consideration.
THE UNDERGROUND
A15 „Ratusz“ Station
A15 „Ratusz“ Station area managenent plan affer the closure of the construction
A14 „Âwi´tokrzyska“ Station
www.metro.waw.pl
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CONCEPTIONS
THE BARNABIT FATHERS PARISH
The Barnabit Fathers Parish Church, Parish Home, Nursing
Home and Cultural Centre – winning work of contest, 1998
Accepted spacious and functional chess-board structure
(with the square with public meetings building and the
church in the corner) has been tested for hundreds of years
– from the location of Polish medieval towns, French les villes bastides and perfect cities – like ZamoÊç.
Nine quarters crossed by the lanes with the central square
with the quarter of auditoriums and the amphitheatre, with
the church in the corner of the square and simultaneously
dominating crossing of Sobieskiego Avenue and Na∏ćzowska Street are the essence of the idea.
Lattice town-planning structure will be the spacious, functional and technical outline (means of conveyance and infrastructure) for the construction of Cultural Centre.
The quarters are divided by the lanes on the level of the ground. They can link on the level of the first of higher floors. The
height of the structures is limited to 15 meters, for that the
church dome inscribed into the sphere could be the dominant.
Conception by: architect Andrzej Kiciƒski
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PRASKI PORT
WESTERN VIEW
From the materials of the local spatial managing plan of the Praski Port area
– 1998-99, elaboration by BPRW. Chief designer: J. Rutkiewicz
NORTH–WESTERN VIEW
The plan includes the 97 ha area, between Okrzei and JagielloƒskaZamoyskiego Streets, cross-town mound line and the Vistula, comprising:
– quarters of revalorized and completed housing and service structures along
Jagielloƒska Street – 7,3 ha
– quarters of new housing and service structures with the height to 8 storeys
between Okrzei Street and the Port – 5,1 ha
– the Port area with the main port water region of 5 ha, with river ports, the
service and suite structures (to 15 storeys) and the hotel (to 25 storeys)
along the embankments – 8,9 ha.
– Centre area with high service, office and suite buildings over the Northern
and the central docks (to 35 storeys) – 16,7 ha.
– park area between the Port and the Vistula (with the Southern dock) – 21 ha.
– the area of the Vistula and the flood-lands – 38,7 ha.
Maximum usable floor area is estimated at 700 000 m2.
COMMUNICATION
NORTHERN VIEW
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ACADEMIC DISTRICT
POWIÂLE MANAGEMENT
From the study materials and the materials to the conception of changing
the local spatial managing plan of Warsaw Centre District, 1997-2000 –
elaboration by BPRW. Chief designer: J. Rutkiewicz
The conception comprises the area between the Escarp and the Vistula
bank, on the North of the cross-town railway line. The basic idea is
approaching of the city to the river and suppression of the
communication barrier by the immersion of Wis∏ostrada.
From about 16 ha of free and mal-exploited terrains suitable for
investment, over a half is destined for the functions connected with the
development of Warsaw University and other colleges and science
institutions in this part of the City Centre. The other areas should serve
service functions (like functions of culture, recreation and tourism
attendance), which increase the attractiveness and give the representative
character to the Bank of the Vistula.
Apart from creating the academic district, the settlement of
Âwi´tokrzyska Route area, the compliment of Mariensztat management,
the restoration of Castle Gardens and direct connection of the greens in
the foot of Old and New Town with the bank of the Vistula, were the goals
of this conception.
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OK¢CIE AIRPORT AREA
EXTANT CONDITION
– two runways
– airport capacity – 4 millions of
passengers a year
– passenger terminal on the Northern side
of the airport – planned enlargement
– communication service from ˚wirki
i Wigury Street
– allotments and waste land on the
Southern side of the airport
AIRPORT ENLARGEMENT POSSIBILITIES
– new runway on the Southern side of the
airport
– airport capacity of destination – over 20
millions of passengers a year
– development of passenger terminals on
the Northern and the Southern side of
the airport
– communication connections with
designed A2 highway and N-S route
– terminal service by the underground or
the branch-line
– 250 ha of new investment terrains
destined for service buildings and the
structures connected with air
communication
Conception by:
dr arch. Krzysztof Domaradzki;
architects: Maciej Czerski, Zbigniew
Kaiser, Marek Sawicki
Communication:
M. engineer Zygmunt U˝dalewicz
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PASSENGER TERMINAL
– PLANNED ENLARGEMENT
NEW PASSENGER TERMINALS
NEW RUNWAY
SKY-SCRAPER, 107 JEROZOLIMSKIE AVENUES
The conceptional design of the building at Jerozolimskie Av. is an
analysis of the compaction possibilities of height building along
the Avenues considering the fact of existence of that kind of
buildings in a quite accidental form („Mariott“, LIM Center,
Reform Plaza).
The design takes two aspects into consideration:
– town-planning aspect – consideration of already existing height
building along Jerozolimskie Avenues and spatial interdependences
following from that.
– architectural aspect – proposition which do not derange the
existing historical structure of the Avenues
The attempt of complement of specific height building rhythm
along the Avenues is the superior rule accepted by the designers.
The scale of the newly-designed building is comparable to the
height buildings that already exist. Its location causes that the
new volume is the spatial complement of the existing buildings
rhythm. This rhythm is especially strongly noticeable during the
raid along the Avenues (from both directions).
The chosen location is the compositional closure of the view pivot
of ˚wirki i Wigury Street from „Okćie“ Airport. The building can
be the element of spatial identification of the city.
For creating the best possible conditions to give the right
exposure to the surroundings, the office storeys are raised for
about 20 meters over the existing buildings. This allowed to create
glazed, transparent „transit“ volume, used as green gardens and
inner, recreation open spaces.
The design plans three underground storeys. Indirect access from
Nowogrodzka Street.
Conception authors: Bulanda, Mucha – Architekci Ltd.
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SASKI PALACE RECONSTRUCTION DESIGN
Baroque Saski Palace with the gardens called Saska Pivot
was erected in the period from 1713 to 1748 at Saxon
kings’ suggestion in the place of former Morsztynów
Palace. In the first half of XIXth century the Palace was
thoroughly rebuilt by demolition of the main trunk and
joining side wings by the colonnade. In the second half of
XIXth century later character of the square structure was
formed.
By order of tsars’ authorities in the period from 1894 to
1912 Orthodox Church with 70 meter-high belfry was
raised in the central part of the square. During the
construction works annexes of the palace were ultimately
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demolished. From 1921 to 1925 the Orthodox Church with
the belfry was totally pulled down. In 1925 in the central
arcades of the palace colonnade the monument The Tomb
of the Unknown Warrior was unveiled. The palace with
adjoining buildings was destroyed by Germans in 1944.
According to the spatial management plan of WarszawaÂródmieÊcie District, with the wish of city authorities and
the will of many inhabitants of Warsaw, the design of
reconstruction and bringing back to life of one of the most
important Warsaw squares was created.
The design has few variants and plans to locate here the
most prestige seats of State and municipal institutions’.
The architecture of the complex is supposed to refer to the
gabarits and the look of 1926-1939 buildings. The interior and
the elevations are designed according to modern architecture
realizations meeting the expectations of future users.
In the area under the Pi∏sudskiego square three-level
underground parking is planned. It will be accessible by
the underground and vertical (staircages and elevators)
communication system located in the designed structures
at Pi∏sudskiego square.
Conception authors – architects: Leszek Klajnert,
Jerzy Czy˝, Adam Wagner
The exhibition organizers express their sincere thanks to the persons and institutions, that contributed to the
creation of the exhibition and the catalogue.
Especially helpful were:
Tadeusz Barucki
dr arch. Krzysztof Domaradzki
Janina Jagielska – the director of Warsaw Public Library
Krzysztof Marsza∏ek – the director of Culture Department in Warszawa Centrum Borough
Wojciech Matusik, Tomasz Gamdzyk, Marek ¸apiƒski –
Warsaw Management Office Spatial Management Department
Jan Rutkiewicz, Marek Roszkowski – Warsaw Development Planning Office
Robert RzesoÊ – Warsaw University Foundation
Andrzej So∏tan – the vice-director of Warsaw History Museum
Antoni Zbikowski, Jerzy Zyzak – the Warsaw University Library Construction Management
The Warsaw Underground
Architecture and town-planning departments in Warsaw’s districts and boroughs
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WARSAW
UNIVERSITY
FOUNDATION
You are visiting the exhibition „Warsaw. The city today. Plans for the future“ in
the modern, recently opened at PowiÊle, new building of Warsaw University
Library (BUW).
The investment was prepared by the Warsaw University Foundation and its
realization was supervised by the BUW Works Administration.
The construction of the Library was financed by Centrum Bankowo-Finansowe
„Nowy Âwiat“ S.A. with the sum of 50 millions USD.
The building was designed by the „Z. Badowski, M. Budzyƒski, A. Kowalewski“
Company appointed in the architectural competition. The building was realized by
the Austrian PORR International AG firm chosen in the public adjudication by
tender.
According to the plans the Library will be filled with 5 millions of volumes till
2025. Temporarily the reserve space in the Library building and in the
reconstructed monumental buildings at 2 Lipowa Street „Szara Willa“ and at 72
Dobra Street „Bia∏a Willa“ has been rented, and the gained money will be
appropriated for the repayment of the loan raised for building the Library. After
the repayment the rest of the money will supply the University development fund.
During the realization of the BUW complex, in the place of old and destroyed
tenement-house at 4 Lipowa Street, the building of Warsaw University Law and
Administration Department was built. It has been used since the 1.10.1999.
On The Independence Day at the 11.11.1999 The Highest Court of Justice
building at Krasiƒskich Square was opened. Its author is the same architecture
company, which designed the Library.
New Centrum Gie∏dowe at Ksià˝ća St., which shareholder is Centrum
Bankowo-Finansowe „Nowy Âwiat“ S.A., will be opened this year.
We are also planning the building of the Cardiological Hospital of Mokotów.
We are on the eve of getting the licence of enlarging the building of the
Department of Economy at D∏uga Street.
We are preparing to take the next challenge – remodeling of the old,
monumental building of the Warsaw University Library, where the auditoriums
and lecture halls for all university departments will be situated.
Creating the large academic campus in PowiÊle, for example on the terrains
regained after the immersion of the part of Wis∏ostrada in the underground
tunnel.
Robert RzesoÊ
Centrum ¸OWICKA presents various
artistic occurrences, like: small theatrical
forms, recitals, cabaret evenings,
varnishing-days, concerts, literature and
poetry meetings, etc.
In the Centrum’s Gallery the exhibitions
presenting all domains of art., like
photography, painting, pattern-designing,
graphics and sculpture.
Photo: ¸ukasz Wawrynkiewicz
CONTENTS
Title page........................................................................................................1
Introduction by the President of Warsaw Pawe∏ Piskorski ............................3
Franciszek Starowieyski – Some loose thoughts about Architecture ............4
Ernest Bryll – Style of encampment ..............................................................5
OLD DESIGNS ..............................................................................................7
Introduction ....................................................................................................9
The Underground ........................................................................................10
The bridge at Karowa St...............................................................................11
The Marshall Józef Pi∏sudski District............................................................12
Boulevards over the Vistula River ................................................................13
Exhibition areas ............................................................................................14
Sports Park in Siekierki ................................................................................15
Occupation reconstruction plans ................................................................16
The reconstruction designs by Maciej Nowicki............................................17
„Future and past silhouette of Warsaw from the Vistula bank“ ..............18-19
Six-year plan ................................................................................................20
WARSAW TODAY ........................................................................................21
Introduction ..................................................................................................23
Photos......................................................................................................24-69
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE ........................................................................71
Introduction ..................................................................................................73
Z∏ota Centre ..................................................................................................74
The three–fronts house of income................................................................75
„Twarda“ Office Complex ............................................................................76
Trade and service centre with Warszawa Wileƒska Train Station ................77
Platan Park 2 ................................................................................................78
„Reprograf“ Building ....................................................................................79
Polish Airlines „LOT“ Headquarters Building ..............................................80
„Atrium“ Hotel ..............................................................................................81
„Okćie“ Airport Hotel ..................................................................................82
„Hyatt Regency Warsaw“ Hotel ....................................................................83
Warehouse and office building for
the „ROCHE POLSKA“ company ................................................................84
National Gas Disposition Headquarters ......................................................85
TVP S.A. „B“ Editorial office building ..........................................................86
Sports Hall „Polonia“ ....................................................................................87
Inter-school sports hall at Redutowa St. ......................................................88
American school ..........................................................................................89
St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria’s parish church ................................................90
Concert Shell ................................................................................................91
Cardiological Hospital with housing complex ........................................92-93
„Wróblewo II“ settlement ..............................................................................94
„Oaza“ settlement ........................................................................................95
Holland Park Suites ......................................................................................96
Po∏udniowa Residence ................................................................................97
Bródnowski Passage ....................................................................................98
Tenement house at Joliot-Curie St. ..............................................................99
SAWA PARK tenement and service building ............................................100
SBM „Merkury“ tenement houses complex................................................101
„Lasek“ tenement complex ........................................................................102
„Boryszewska“ suites building ..................................................................103
New Spatial Policy ......................................................................................104
Po∏udniowy Station area – communication service conception
Central Warsaw area – communication service conception......................105
Spatial structure elements ..........................................................................106
Road network..............................................................................................107
Central Quarter beltway – Praga section ..................................................108
Motorway A2 variant – Warsaw section......................................................109
Parking conception in Centrum Borough ..................................................110
Mass public transit ....................................................................................111
Public transport conception in Centrum Borough ....................................112
The Underground ......................................................................................113
CONCEPTIONS..........................................................................................114
The Barnabit Fathers parish church ..........................................................115
Praski Port ..................................................................................................116
Academic District ......................................................................................117
„Okćie“ Airport area ................................................................................118
Sky-scraper, 107 Jerozolimskie Av. ............................................................119
Saski Palace reconstruction design ..........................................................120
Sponsors pages
Warbud ................................................................................................122-123
Glaverbel – Polska ......................................................................................124
Assa Abloy..................................................................................................125
Siemens – Landis & Staefa Division ..........................................................126
ING Real Estate ..........................................................................................127
Commercial Union ......................................................................................128
Globe Trade Centre ....................................................................................129
Warsaw University Foundation ..................................................................130
Page 16: from the collection of Zygmunt Skibniewski, Warsaw and Architecture Museum, Wroclaw
Page 20: drawings’ authors: 1, 3 – Jan Knothe; 2 – Kazimierz Marczewski
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Exhibition commissioner
Dorota Katner
Scenario
Leszek Ko∏acz
Co-operation
Dorota Katner
Elaboration of the “Old Designs” section
Joanna Maldis, Warsaw History Museum
Exhibition artistic scheme
Krzysztof Burnatowicz
Realization
Agencja wystawienniczo-reklamowa DUX
Drafting of the catalogue
Joanna Maciejewska
Editorial staff
Sylwia Papliƒska
Maja ChadryÊ-Engelking
Marta Czarkwiani
Urszula Âcibor-Rylska
Translation into English
Karolina Hagmajer
Catalogue pages design
¸ukasz Wawrynkiewicz
Authors of the “Warsaw today” section photos
p. 24 – Nowy Âwiat St. – Siemaszkowie
p. 44 – Szczeciƒskie Coast, Dziesićiolecia Stadium – Jerzy Gumowski/Agencja Gazeta
p. 69 – Wawelska St. – Wojciech Duszenko/Agencja Gazeta
p. 69 – Jana Paw∏a II Avenue – Piotr Molćki/Agencja Gazeta
Other photos – ¸ukasz Wawrynkiewicz
Graphic print eleboration, cover photo – Krzysztof Burnatowicz
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Centrum Edukacyjno-Kulturalne ¸OWICKA
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