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For 15 years, the ‘Plans for the Future’ exhibition has been providing us an opportunity for broad and prospective look at
Warsaw and has induced a reflection of the ways of its spatial development.
This year exhibition gathered together the large number of various projects and designs. We can admire them within the
modern space of the Warsaw University Library.
This original gallery encourages for the multidimensional and sometimes fierce discussion about our city. Year after year,
more people become involved in it, proving the necessity of such event.
For years the ‘Plans for the Future’ architectural exhibition has been attracting the conscious audience, the dynamically
developing community of the European metropolis, that cares about the city’s future look, spatial development, identity,
quality, aesthetics, accessibility, public safety and comfort of living.
I would like to warmly invite everyone for a ‘city walk’ with the vision of the present-day and the future Warsaw.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Mayor of the City of Warsaw
Through the 15 years, since we have prepared the first edition of the ‘Plans for the Future. Architectural Drawings and
Models of the New Warsaw Constructions’ exhibition it has been becoming the biggest annual review of architectural designs
in Warsaw, and an event that takes place in the meeting calendar of architects and residents of our capital. It is the record
of architectural development in the ever-changing city.
As usual our exhibition is divided into the sections. The first of it is dedicated to the architectural competitions for the Museum
of Polish History and Museum of Polish Army in Warsaw Citadel and the EUROPAN 10 (a biennial competition for young
architects, Polish edition subject was the ‘Transformation of the street into the living heart of neighbourhood’ – revitalization
of the Wileńska St. area).
The increasing role of regions, rivalry for tourists and new investors influenced the interest of the quality of public space.
Today the new public space is often a way for promotion of the local history and becomes the indispensable element of
attractive and competitive city. That is why the ‘Urban Space’ section is so important for our event. This year we are
presenting the spatial development plans for Konstruktorska, Ryżowa, Bracka, Szpitalna and Rydygiera Streets, and river’s
left bank boulevards, and the revitalization of parks located in Warsaw and Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki.
Except the office buildings the ‘Public buildings’ section shows new hospitals, hotels, preschools, community centres,
sports facilities and many others.
Extremely interesting are designs comprising the ‘Single-family houses’ section which shows bold visions using the latest
materials and technologies.
The ‘Concept’ section contains designs that propably will never come into existence and that is why I suggest looking at
them closer.
Our completely new proposition this year is the ‘MA dissertations’ section showing the chosen MA dissertations of students
of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.
The architecture creates the city aesthetics. Hundreds of buildings that have been completed in Warsaw during the last
decade and that have been shown on our exhibition prove that this was a good time for the city.
On behalf of me and all of those who have prepared it I invite you to enjoy our exhibition.
Katarzyna Hagmajer
Director of ŁOWICKA Centre
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An international architectural competition for a design of the
Museum of Polish History
THE MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY
in Warsaw, conducted under the patronage of Mr. Bogdan Zdrojewski – Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
and under the auspices of the International Union of Architects UIA and Union of Polish Architects SARP.
Location – above Trasa Łazienkowska Route and along Jazdów Street axis.
Competition promoter - the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
THE COMPETITION JURY
Jong Soung Kimm, architect, Seoul, South Korea (chairman)
Christine Dalnoky, architecte DPLG, Paris-Marseilles, France
Aurelio Galfetti, architetto SIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Ryszard Jurkowski, architect SARP, Katowice, Poland
Tomasz Merta vice minister for Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
Marek Mikos, architekt SARP, the Chief Architect of the Capital City of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Rafael Moneo, arquitecto, Madrid-Harvard, Spain-the USA
Andrzej Rottermund, art historian, Warsaw, Poland
Eduardo Souto de Moura, arquitecto, Porto, Portugal
Grzegorz Buczek, architekt TUP, Warsaw, Poland (jury speaker)
The chairman of an expert committee – professor Adam Zbigniew Pawłowski
The verdict was announced on 6 December 2009.
FIRST PRIZE
Paczowski et Fritsch Architectes, Luxembourg
SECOND PRIZE
emJEDNACZ Architekci, Mirosław Jednacz – architect, Poland
THIRD PRIZE
Architects: Jakub Krzyczkowski, Renata Gierasimiuk, Tomasz Janko, Grzegorz Wróbel, Poland
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
• Architects: Ewa Kuryłowicz, Stefan Kuryłowicz, Olga Kanecka, Piotr Kudelski, Wojciech Pachocki, omasz Głębowski,
Magda Ptaszyńska, Maksymilian Dobkowski, Poland
• Architects: JEMS Sp. z o.o., Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski, Maciej Miłobędzki, Olgierd Jagiełło, Marcin Sadowski, Paweł
Majkusiak, Poland
• Architects Teehouse: Osamu Tsukihashi, Kuniko Tsukihashi, Kazuya Saito, Kosuke Bando, Yoshinori Ohira, Miki Okuno,
Karol Wawrzyniak, Junko Oyamada, Japan
It has been our intention not only to design a building, but also to create a place, which
connects the varied elements in a whole charged with meaning.
The Museum, designed as a bridge, jumps over the Trasa Lazienkowska expressway, reunites
the segments of the historical escarpment, and restores the continuity of the Ujazdowski
and Lennona streets. The contiguity of the Museum Forum with the parvis of the Ujazdowski
Castle - Centre of Contemporary Art - creates a place where the memory of the past meets
the events of the present and future.
The Forum takes shape as a covered path, which crosses the building from south to north, as
an interface between the served and servant spaces of the Museum. Its opening times, could
be independent from those of the Museum. The Forum is open to everyone. Its audience hall,
multimedia centre, book and museum shops, newsagent, bar, cafeteria and restaurant, are
equally open to promenaders on the Aleja na Skarpie, and Ujazdow street, as well as to visitors and staff of the Ujazdowski Castle. The support services, the workshops and laboratories,
are contained on the first floor, with filtered access from the Forum. They are sheltered, as a
garden, receiving natural light and ventilation from the planted open patios.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT DURING THE SECOND PHASE HAS BEEN TO:
Cover Trasa Lazienkowska between the Museum and the Plac na Rozdrozu.
Eextend the axis Stanislawowska from the Castle and Museum Places to the Aleje
Ujazdowskie.
Lay out on the Castle segment of the axis Stanislawowska, a serpentine path within a 12 m.
strip, flanked by a bicycle path. Its edges are planted with ornamental grasses and perennials
in meadow-like associations.
Place a grand civic lawn over the expressway, to lie in the sun, to walk in the snow, related
to Kensington gardens in London, Luxembourg gardens in Paris and Topkapi gardens.
Open the ceiling of the exhibition galleries to the northern blue sky, cool and constant,
and protect it by screens, which cut the direct sun radiation from the south and adjust the
daylight to season, and to exhibit. Their back-side is covered by photoelectric panels, facing
south, which contribute, with their 3.000 m2 of total surface, to the general energy balance
of the museum complex.
Insulate thermally and screen radiatively the gallery with a facade of three sheets of glass,
containing on the inside a 10 cm. cavity of cells either empty or filled with translucent inert
aerogel silica beads, and in the outside cavity a radiatively selective coating.
Place on the inside of the façade a double layer of rolled, soft screens of specific density
or deployment, to offer sensitive modulation of the natural light.
Compose the outer glass sheet of the gallery façade with impenetrable laminate glass, and a silver
screen print, which attenuates sunlight transmission. From the outside, the surfaces coruscate
in the daylight reacting to sun movement, changing cloud patterns, and rainfall, and the surfaces
catch the moon light or in the early evening hinting glimmering with the Museum’s activities.
FIRST PRIZE
Design by Paczowski et Fritsch Architectes, Luxembourg
Architects Bohdan Paczowski, Paul Fritsch, Mathias Fritsch
Collaborating architects José Almeida Ribeiro, Wojciech Jaske, Artur Stachura
Structural engineers RFR Ingénieurs, Paris
Museography Christian Germanaz, Paris
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The Museum’s location has been chosen as a result of searching for the balance between the
old and the new so that the new should supplement and complement the historical layout of the
Stanisławowska Axis and the building of the Ujazdów Castle (CSW). Two balancing out (non-rivalling)
elements in the panorama of the escarpment appeared.
The basic element, as well as a problem concerning functional and spatial location of the Museum’s
building, is its entry and its connection with the existing urban structures of the city, in particular
connecting it to the main and most prestigious Warsaw communication route, namely Ujazdowskie
Avenue. Therefore, it has been decided that the entry to the Museum should be located directly at
Ujazdowskie Avenue. The entrance has been designed as a row of monumental (some 12 metres), interactive, openwork, granite (concrete) walls which shall form a multimedia information performance.
The entrance gate and a small yard built around it shall be connected with the Museum by a driveway
designed in place of a previously existing park avenue along Łazienkowska Route. The avenue, which
shall be marked by granite pillars with armorials, has been named Kings’ Avenue.
The concept is based on the assumption that the Łazienkowska Route shall be not covered.
The PHM building consists of two parts: the first one is the principal facility (museum), while the
other one is the administration and warehouse building. Both parts are connected via an elevated
walkway at the level +1.
Shape of the basic mass of the Museum results from the direct context of the place in which the facility
SECOND PRIZE
Architects emJednacz Architekci • Mirosław Jednacz Collaborating architects Monika Bahonko,
Paweł Słupiański, Marek Malanowski, Grażyna Bednarczyk, Zofia Stegienko, Mariusz Sułek
has been located. Proximity of the Ujazdowski Castle has determined scale of the Museum.
The internal composition of the building has been determined by so called Wall of Names. This wall
functionally divides the Museum’s space and constitutes an interactive element of the building. The
Wall’s exhibition depicts not only the most important figures in the Poland’s history, but also ordinary
Polish people. This is a dynamic structure, which changes in time and space.
From the functional point of view, the building has been divided into two parts: the administrative
and warehousing one and the formal and exhibition one. The building’s central space is occupied by
the Forum, which is directly linked with exhibition functions, conference and didactic rooms, as well
as accompanying premises. The Forum is a generally accessible place with no limitations in this
respect. An info centre has been planned at its heart. This is a kind of a helpdesk combined with the
ticket office. Its role has been emphasised by a futuristic shape in the form of a cylinder. The Forum’s
roof is made of glass and thus lightens up this part of the Museum with a natural and diffused light.
The Forum marks both the beginning and the end of our visit to the Museum.
Exhibitions have been divided into temporary ones, changing and arranged according to their topics, and
permanent ones, split into two parts. The first one concerns period from the early Slavonic times until the
end of the second world war, while the other one relates to the period from the late 40s till now.
The Museum’s finishing standards – the object draws on natural materials used in the traditional
Polish constructions, that is oak wood, granite and zinc.
Because of the scale of the site of investment this project is divided into two phases.
The first phase was the construction of the Museum’s building, squares and slab over the Trasa
Łazienkowska express route; the arrangement of greenery around the Museum. The building is on a
square plan. Its side is divided into two units. This division is also visible in the interior, elevations and
the layout of the square. Two wings of the building are linked by atrium, open to the public entrance
hall – a public forum. Because of the large span between walls, a tree-in-shape pillar was designed
to hold the roof. This unusual arboreal structure, depicting an oak, has many references in the Polish
culture and history of the beginings of the Polish state.
The building consists of cubical blocks comprising the exhibition halls and additional facilities
separated by the internal circulation. The main circulation route linking floors was located inside the
tower which is adjacent to the main building and creates the visual and spatial dominant. The latter
was designed in a shape of twisted cuboid. The stairs inside the tower leads to its green roof top.
The building’s elevations penetrate into atrium like a ribbon. The whole is made of different in size
copper pipes depicting kings and dukes from the ‘Poczet królów i książąt polskich’ (Gallery of portraits
of Polish kings and dukes) by Jan Matejko. The building’s outer elevation consists of row of stone
pilasters, which provide the monumental look. Each floor of the Museum is dedicated to a different
epoch in the history of Poland. Thematic routes are also anticipated – thematic units are located into
the individual blocks and they are linked by staircases. The Museum Route ends inside of tower. From
the main hall one has an easy access to the didactic area located on the first floor of the western wing
of the building. This area also comprises the multi-purpose hall and laboratories.
The second phase was to arrange the urban layout, the redevelopment of the Na Rozdrożu Square and
the restoration of the Stanisławowska Axis and the city greenery.
THIRD PRIZE
Architects Jakub Krzyczkowski, Poland; Renata Gierasimiuk, Tomasz Janko, Grzegorz
Wróbel Collaboration Biuro Projektów Architektonicznych i Budowlanych AiB Sp. z o.o.,
Jerzy Rotowski, Andrzej Jagodziński, Paweł Bartman, Andrzej Matusiak, Jacek Piechocki,
Leszek Sękowski, Kalina Jaworska, Wojciech Grodecki (PhD)
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The project’ s idea is based upon the role of the national flag in the Polish history. The high, glass
walled Forum, with the historical banners, pennons and flags floating in its space will constitute the most
dominating element of the Museum building, visible in Skarpa Warszawska (Scarp) panorama, next to the
Ujazdow Castle. The building consists of three connected parts:
– the one - floor which is the central one, located on the slab over Trasa Łazienkowska (Trasa), in which
the zones of Public Forum and Supplementary functions are housed;
– the Northern one located on the levels “0”, “-1”, “-2 “ and “-3 “ in which the Exhibition, Research and
Academic and Administration, Technical Utilities and Garages and Storerooms’ zones are housed and
– the onefloor Southern one on the level “-1”, containing the Education and Seminar zone (with the Kids’
zone) planned as opened to the roofed recreation terrace adjacent to the Scarp’s greenery.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Architects Ewa Kuryłowicz, Stefan Kuryłowicz, Olga Kanecka, Piotr Kudelski,
Wojciech Pachocki, Tomasz Głębowski, Magda Ptaszyńska, Maksymilian
Dobkowski Collaboration Piotr Pachowski, Iwo Dobrucki, Artur Bronisz, Bogdan
Sorys, Janusz Tomczyk, Zygmunt Pawełkowicz (Phd), Balbina Kacprzyk, Jerzy
Sander, Henryk Łoza, Piotr Musiałowski, Rajmund Rajchelt
The visiting of the Museum of Polish History starts from going down “into“ the Earth, according to the
intuitive understanding of what the past is. The visitors get down to the exposition halls from the ground
level via the main circulation core to the “-3” level where they can start their tour around the permanent
collection.
The “-3” level comprises three historical galleries: The Gallery of the Middle Ages, The Gallery of modern
times and the Gallery of the 19th century; they can be visited in the chronological way and with the use of
“fast track“ route which surrounds the exposition space and directs the visitors to the viewing ramp. The
latter connects all exposition levels serving not only as the additional means of the vertical circulation
but also allowing for embracing the whole of the exposition and choosing ones own areas of interest. The
Gallery of 1914-15 and the Gallery of PRL are continued on the level “-2”; the visitor here is also given
a choice to either visit the whole exhibition or to choose its shortened version localized in the area close
to the circulation core .
The temporary exhibition localized on the level “-1” is accessible both from the main hall on the ground
level (“0”) and also from the landing of the external stairs on the “-1” level thus inviting an accidental
passer-by to get acquainted with the current Museum’s offer. The temporary exhibitions are also visible
from the mezzanine leading to Media Library and from the Restaurant.
The multimedia equipment will make possible creating both the virtual and traditional expositions with the
possibility of the gradation of the moods with the use of visual and acoustic means as well as visiting the
museum with the use of the cordless digital guidance devices with the remote steering of the multimedia
exhibitions, planned and equipped in the Museum laboratories. The illumination of the exhibition areas
will be done with the use of the light reflected on the ceilings and walls, with the support of LED modules
and highly efficient meta halogen and fluorescent sources.
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The Urban Circle ?
The square and its facility are at the centre of the Urban Palm. It has an observation deck and an
event stage, which invite visitors and urban activities.
The Urban Terrace ?
The urban square is situated in front of the building. It functions as a buffer zone between the
rotary and the building and is used as a casual rest space.
Permanent Exhibition. Experience of Slope and History.
The exhibition space is composed of very gentle slope. The display developed on the surface of
the slope gives visitors the experience of the history of Poland. The direction of slopes reflects the
transformation of the times, which leads the direction of the entire permanent exhibition.
Visitors can choose freely their own route along their interests and objectives. The permanent
exhibition space has a huge display slope at the core. Around the core are arranged three types
of exhibition spaces: articulated exhibition rooms, a transit and media foyers. Each set represents
a particular era. Each of visitors starts form the slope and chooses freely their one’s course to
see displays.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Architects Architects Teehouse, Japan: Osamu Tsukihashi, Kuniko Tsukihashi, Kazuya Saito,
Kosuke Bando, Yoshinori Ohira, Miki Okuno, Karol Wawrzyniak, Junko Oyamada
Collaborating architects Structural Design Office: Oak Masato Araya, Yukari Umezawa, Takashi
Sudo, Hirohide Tao, Arup Japan Shigeru Hikone, Susumu Matsunobu, Teppei Ishibashi, Koji
Shigenaga, Chieri Iizaka, Shuichi Tamura, Jin Matsumoto, Makiko Arai; Arup Warsaw Andrzej Sitko,
Piotr Konarzewski, Marcin Kasprzak, Jarosław Witek, Beata Tarczewska-Sidełko; PROTECT Tadeusz
Cisek, Yasuaki Onoda, Vogt Ralf G. Voss, Jennifer Current Hanako Suzuki, Hanna Assargard
Global Cultural Platform
We define the centre of Warszawska Scarp as the Cultural Platform, which accommodates urban
scale activities. Ditches made by Trasa Łazienkowska are filled with Providing Slab to restore the
former topography and to make a platform which deals with urban scale operations. The scarp,
an edge of the border and the façade of the city, is considered a “hillside” that creates the most
beautiful scarp as the symbol of Poland. Furthermore, we define “Urban Palm” at the connexion
with the Warszawska Scarp, which receives complex, dynamic urban flow of various activities. The
local public square around the platform receives the context of the neighbourhood. As a result, the
project develops the locality of the Warszawska Scarp and the globality of the country.
MPH Construction Area
The museum is built along Cultural Fingers that fill ditches of Trasa Łazienkowska. The building
is mostly buried underground to reduce running cost and disturbances at the landscape. Furthermore, the museum covers the most unstable ground in order that the body of the MPH can
function as a retaining wall that prevents the facility from landslides.
Cultural Finger
The central flow of the Cultural Platform.
– Historical Finger. The historical flow is based on the ancient axis.
– Natural Finger. The natural flow links the city and the botanical garden.
– Spine. This Spine reinforces the north-south continuity of the Greenbelt.
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The Museum of the History of Poland shows the millenary history of Poles with all its complexity, taking
into account its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic context.
The Museum of the History of Poland project restores the prestige and significance of the Stanislau Axis not
only due to the reconstruction of the pedestrian boulevard between RozdroŜe Square and Ujazdów Castle.
The visual presence of the axis has also been emphasised by the composition of a new square situated
diagonally to the axis, stretching between Aleje Ujazdowskie and the museum entrance atrium yard situated on the Wiejska Street /Aleja Sejmowa / axis. The square, walled by tree lines and the northern arcade
elevation of the museum, makes reference to the “kite” geometry and composition principles – a radial
footpath system integrated with the Stanislau Axis. At the same time, such an arrangement creates new
spatial values within the city, linking the castle axis with Aleja Sejmowa and Aleja na Skarpie, forming a
foreground and opening up a perspective view of the new museum.
The walkway running along the edge of the embankment is linked at the foreground of the museum and the
castle with Aleja Sejmowa, forming an extensive park interior.
The Museum is not just another monumental building on the embankment, and its architectural formula
does not compete with Ujazdów Castle. The museum forms a “bridge” linking the Ujazdów and Botanic
gardens intersected by Trasa Łazienkowska. The rhythm of structural frames interpenetrates and merges with
the vertical pattern of trees in the park environment. The building forms a spatial structure that is friendly in
scale, but highly unambiguous and homogenous, creating lively relationships with the surrounding spaces
of diverse ambience and character.
The form of the museum building is based on frames stretching over Trasa Łazienkowska. Cut within those
frames are the museum spaces, display runs, stairs, galleries, external arcades and loggias. This geometry
of the structural bays of the building is a consequence of the main composition lines, both in the urban
planning scale and in the internal logic of museum space arrangement.
The uniform material also provides an opportunity to create rich and diverse ambiences and architectural
expression.
The entrance hall is building’s backbone. It is a kind of roofed, public plaza. To the north it links the Aleja
Sejmowa with the square in front of museum entrance and to the south with square in front of Ujazdów
Castle.
Exhibition spaces consists of large scale halls, which are mostly without natural light access. Their open
space character allows for unlimited arrangement of multimedia exhibitions that will make visitors to be
active in experiencing history. Permanent exhibitions runs along the “Avenue of Monuments of Polish
Freedom”, which is the functional axis of the western part of the museum. Temporary exhibitions located
to the east, next to the forum and they are accompanied by various bays for rest and meditation, which are
in form of transparent galleries.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Architects JEMS Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski, Maciej
Miłobędzki, Olgierd Jagiełło, Marcin Sadowski, Paweł Majkusiak
Collaboration Mai Bui-Ngoc, Marek Kuciński, Karol Olechnicki, Michał Ożóg, Maciej
Rydz, Aleksandra Targońska, Piotr Waleśkiewicz, Marcin Zaremba, Jarosław Kujawa
of WSP Polska, Sławomir Pawelec of S.P. Projektowanie Konstrukcji, Dorota Rudawa
of RS Architektura Krajobrazu, Andrzej Dziubak of WAPDECO, Juliusz Sokołowski,
Kuba Morkowski, Adam Perka
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An architectural competition for a design of the
Museum of Polish Army
in the Warsaw Citadel
THE COMPETITION JURY
Krzysztof Chwalibóg, Marian Fikus, Marcin Gawlicki, Jerzy Grochulski, Janusz B. Jaworski – Jury speaker, Witold Kalinowski,
Konrad Kucza-Kuczyński – chairman, Roman Łukasik, Roman Matuszewski, Marek Mikos, Małgorzata Rozbicka, Witold
Sielewicz, Marek Trzybiński, Marek Szeniawski – jury secretary
The verdict was announced on 31 August 2009
FIRST PRIZE
WXCA Szczepan Wroński, Wojciech Conder, Warsaw
SECOND PRIZE
APA Markowski Architekci Sp. z o.o., Projektor Architekci – Bylka, Kossowski, Lewandowski, Zmorka, Warsaw
THIRD PRIZE
Maciej Kuryłowicz Architekt, Warsaw
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
– KAPS ARCHITEKCI, Korneluk, Parysek, Słowik, Warsaw
– AMC Andrzej M. Chołdzyński, Warsaw
– Studio LISIAK, Poznań
– NOW Biuro Architektoniczne, Łódź
– mąka.sojka.architekci, Warsaw
– Karczewski&Bernier Architectes, ATI, Warsaw/Paris
– OVO Grąbczewscy Architekci, Oskar Grąbczewski, Katowice
THE POLISH ARMY MUSEUM
Collaboration – Union of Polish Architects Warsaw Division
Competition promoter - the Museum of Polish Army in Warsaw.
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FIRST PRIZE
Architects WXCA Szczepan Wroński, Wojciech Conder
The architectural design of the winning building depicts to the historic urban and architectural layout of the
Citadel. The Museum, together with the roofed outdoor exhibition is located in place of the old barracks that
were destroyed during World War II. The restored Plac Gwardii (the Square of Guards) is architectural dominant
and plays representative function. Square’s space is integrated with the Museum’s hall by square’s floor. The
narrative of the Armed forces which begins in the museum also takes in the neighbouring park.
The building and its surrounding are treated not as separated areas but two opposite parts of the same story.
This enables the creation of complete picture of the Polish Armed Forces. The permanent exhibition consists
of museum pieces taken out of their natural context. It puts the emphasis on intellectual record, and uses
lots of details and texts. However the outdoor exhibition provides an opportunity to re-introduce the missing
context. The involvement of the motion in the landscape, perspective, surfaces structure, weather conditions
and greenery makes the message more direct and emotional.
The broad approach to this project includes some objects around the Citadel which are not directly related
to the Museum such as restaurants, cafes or clubs located on both sides of the entrance zone. Since institutions such as The Museum of the Polish Army have to compete for visitors with malls we want to provide
both cultural and entertaining experience, attractive for the whole family. Our museum complex provides a
perfect balance which malls do not.
The individual units such as: entrance zone; the walls – exhibition of canons; central part with temporary
exhibitions; left bastion with restaurants; exhibition of aircrafts; right bastion with exhibition addressed especially to children; trenches with armored vehicles exhibition; amphitheatre; marine forces exhibition next to the
Brama Straceń (Gate of Executions) were located along Museum Route circle. Thus the route is a sequence of
changing pictures composed of few layers: the armory, the battle field and finally the emotions.
The concept of the Museum building is based on functional and spatial analysis of the given location. We
have designed the building that is simple in form, subtle in detail and merges with Citadel’s fabric as another
missing piece in the urban puzzle ruptured by history.
The building’s façade is a collection of surfaces with different transparency grades which complete the architectural composition and reflect the functional layout of the interior. The clear layout, simplicity and comfort of
use were basic features considered during the designing process. All halls have been designed in accordance
to the rules and regulations of the architectural competition. Museum’s usable floor area will be approximately
51 320 square meters and will be 60 meters long, 25 meters wide and 5 meters high.
The exhibition unit, is approximately 1 500 square meters and consists of the main Museum Route, additional
halls and rooms and technical corridor. The Museum Route leads one way; it starts and ends in the main
hall. Laboratories and offices have been separated from the Museum Route but there is still an easy access
to them from all parts of the Museum.
We hope that our project, a dynamic and versatile Museum around the Citadel will proudly represent the
glorious history of the Polish Armed Forces.
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SECOND PRIZE
Architects APA Markowski Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Projektor Architekci – Byłka, Kossowski,
Lewandowski, Zmorka
The Polish Army Museum is located in the Citadel area; an exceptional symbol of the complicated
and dramatic history of Warsaw. The Museum is supposed to refer to the Square of Guards, the center
of Citadel and Wojska Polskiego Av.
The Square is the main element of spatial development. It is a spacious, open area with different
faces: Square-Theatre, Square-Remembrance and Square-Life. When the Square turns into Theatre it
becomes kind of a stage – for military parades, reconstructions of battles and military skills shows.
Sometimes, the Square changes into the area of Remembrance – a symbol, a sculpture of the most
important events of the Polish nation. In weekdays it is a public square – a space for recreation and
meetings.
The project also anticipates the new entrance gate for the Museum, which is formed by curveted
surface of the escarpment that turns into a grass roof.
The Museum is a symbolic three-dimension square (225 m x 225 m). On its eastern side the museum’s main edifice comprising representative hall, three levels of exhibition halls, storeroom level
and a wing with technical and administrative facilities and laboratories are located. The pavilions for
outdoor exhibitions have been located in the south-western and north-western corners of the square.
The pavilions are an architectural extension of the elevated square floor.
The exhibit space for the most precious museum pieces is integrated with the entrance hall zone
which is opened to it. The open hall was located under the “parade stand” creating a link between
the spacious foyer and one of the exhibit pavilions. This area is delimited by warehouses on the east
and by passage housing shops, bookstores, restaurants and cafes on the west. Moreover, this level
of museum houses the autonomic conference complex. The hall, on every level, opens via its east
storey to the Gate of Executions and the Road of the Condemned.
The Museum’s main edifice, in its central part, consists of three high levels containing the exhibit
hall and additional exhibit rooms – 5 on each level. At the end of the Museum Route a restaurant is
located on the roof of the Museum’s building.
The northern part of the building contains the technical and administrative sections with independent
entrances for employees. The southern part consists of laboratories and a scientific section with
independent circulation. The exhibit halls are grouped on 3 levels around the main hall. Their layout
is flexible and they can be accessed from the didactic path or any other section of the museum.
The main hall is a place where one can rest and get information but it is also an additional exhibit
space.
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As a Place, the Citadel defines the need of symbols, the need of remembrance of wounds and
losses, victories and hope. The Museum of Polish Army is a place where one can be close to
museum pieces. What is more important, one can be close to the history of Poland. Because of
the site’s of development unique character architects decided to implement only spare changes
in the urban planning, architecture, architectural details and building materials.
The project is supposed to unite the Citadel’s area. The whole composition was based on two
urban axes – the Gwardii St., the axis integrating The Citadel with the Żoliborz district and one
symbolic axis linking the Brama Straceń (Gate of Executions) with the Plac Gwardii (Square of
Guards).
The Square of Guards becomes the most important area, flanked on the north and on the south by
the museum buildings. On the east, the elevation of the square comprises the row of 14 cuboidal
obelisks, made of white marble, depicting the greatest Polish commanders.
The main urban plan comprises 3 museum blocks on a regular square plan, the smaller entrance
pavilion, outdoor exhibitions and the historic X Pawilon (10th Pavilion) with the Gate of Executions.
The 10th Pavilion creates the wholeness with the Droga Skazańców (Road of Condemned) and the
Gate of Executions. The new outdoor exhibitions pavilion separates this area from the entrance
plaza. The route ends at the Gate of Executions.
The entrance pavilion is, at the same time, a place of outdoor exhibitions and can be freely
arranged. The museum program was based on the most attractive exhibit spaces. The outdoor
exhibitions arrangement was based on the comb-style walls. The latter create the ‘exhibit pockets’ comprising museum pieces, multimedia presentations, interactive spaces or rest areas for
visitors.
The proposed spatial layout of the Museum creates the elastic backbone for such exhibitions arrangement. The outdoor and roofed exhibition spaces have been linked and they create museum’s
routes which are divided into few sections. This kind of layout allows their better perception.
Each of the museum blocks (pavilions) is made of 4 units. It gives 16 museum units on two levels
in two pavilions. The main block’s ground floor comprises the space for temporary exhibitions. On
the first floor of the second pavilion the gallery of painting was located and there are multimedia
rooms adjacent to it. Next to the obelisks on the Square of Guards a ‘Chamber of Reflection’ has
been located. It is a place for sound and light shows depicting the history of Poland.
THIRD PRIZE
Design by Maciej Kuryłowicz – Architekt
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The basic idea of this project is to separate the museum space from the
forest surrounding the cemetery using the simplest architectural elements.
It has to be done with minimal intervention into the natural environment.
The Museum is a part of Kampinos forest delimited by glass and steel
walls and covered with a green roof. The exhibition space has been located
between trees, mute witnesses of the tragedy from the past. Visual contact
of visitors with the forest and cemetery does not let them forget about the
Palmiry’s tragedy context.
The building has been designed as a one storey and its front opens to
the main cemetery entrance. The rectangular space of the Museum is
covered with the flat, green roof, in which four round openings have been
cut providing natural light to the patios. In each opening a tree that grows
there has been preserved.
The building has clear and simple layout. The rectangular exhibition space
is delimited by three sculpted walls with steel surface shot through 2252
times. It symbolizes the number of victims of the Nazi Germany terror who
lay buried in the Palmiry cemetery. These holes create a light pattern on
the inner, dark wall of the museum. There is only one glass wall in the
Museum and it opens to the necropolis with 3 white crosses at the end of
it. The patios provide natural light into the exhibition space and divide the
latter into individual halls, and finally they mark out the Museum Route.
The row of additional rooms related with educational and office functions
runs along the western part of the building. All of them have glass walls
opened to the surrounding forest.
The building’s entrance has been located at the end of the main cemetery
alley deeply in the arcade. The box office and cloakroom are located on
the right of the entrance. On the left side, the hall is closed by steel wall
with the exhibit space entrances.
The elevation is made of glass panels without muntins, perforated steel
panels and impregnated architectural concrete. The building has a green
roof planted with easygoing plants, such as stonecrops and lichens.
SOUTH ELEVATION
PALMIRY PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE MUSEUM
Location Kampinoski National Park, Palmiry Architects WXCA • Szczepan Wroński, Wojciech Conder, Zbigniew Wroński
Collaborating architects Michał Tatiewski, Aleksander Drzewiecki, Grzegorz Sławiński Client Warsaw Development Board
Design 2010 Completion 2010
Total volume: 4 400 m3 • Total floor area: 1 100 m2 • Usable floor area: 1 033 m2 • 1 floor • 28 Surface car spaces
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EUROPAN 10
Europan is a biennial competition for young architects and urban design professionals, under 40 years of age. Europan runs across 22 countries.
It is organized by Europan Europe established in 1988.
Poland joined it in 2006.
The goal was to create a place that promotes and encourages the interaction of different groups op people by upgrading the neighbourhood –
From a Street to the Heart of a Vital Neighbourhood. For the city it is important to implement the new project in Ulica Wileńska in cooperation
with the residents, to give the latter a greater sense of identification with the project as a guarantee of long-term success. The study area
is located in Praga neighbourhood, built at the turn of the last century. The historic buildings lend the area its unique character and are of
enormous value in a city which was largely destroyed in World War II. The project area is 6.7 hectares in size and includes part of Ulica
Wileńska, together with adjoining parcels in order to ensure the interaction with the street itself. The primary task is to structure the area and
the street space by structural and functional intervention. A public open space is to be created which integrates the various resident groups
and visitors. Ulica Wileńska is not to be the the’Town parlour’, but rather the ‘Neighbourhood parlour’.
EUROPAN 10
THE JURY
Irene Wiese von Ofen – architect, Europan Germany
Holger Kleine – architect, Europan Germany
Gabriela Rembarz – architect, Gdansk
Hubert Trammer – architect, Lublin/Warsaw
Joanna Szczepańska – psychologist, Warsaw
Paweł Althamer – sculptor, Warsaw
Marek Mikos – architect, Warsaw
Tomasz Zemła – architect, Warsaw
Karol Kobos – journalist, Warsaw
Adam Nadolny – architect, Poznan, jury member deputy
Dariusz Bober – architect, Warszawa, jury member deputy
Hubert Wójcicki – architect, Warsaw, jury secretary
Tomasz Szczepański – psychologist, Warsaw, consultant
Polish edition jury preselected seven projects for Jury in Berlin. Jury in Berlin have awarded first and second prize winners and gave one
honourable mention.
The city is a living, constantly changing organism. The whole Warsaw, not only yet undeveloped areas, need new projects and funds. The
city has its own dynamics. Some areas, forgotten for years, suddenly become top locations. They attract new residents, which should be
provided with user friendly and functional environment. Such attractive area has lately become Praga Południe district. A little bit wild, it
attracts people who seek for special places, with characteristic spatial and cityscape features. Buldings made of original red brick and not
styled drywall. One can’t find there shoddy materials made to resemble something else, but will find indigenous residents that don’t want to
and don’t have to pretend somebody else. What we see is real and in mine opinion this is Praga’s best virtue. People search for places where
they can feel freely and comfortably. That is why we have chosen Ulica Wileńska area for Europan 10. We hoped, that this competition would
give us answers, how to integrate different groups of residents. How to create ‘the Heart of a Vital Neighbourhood’. In mine opinion awarded
entries gave the best answers to it.
Tomasz Zemła
Deputy Director of the Architecture and City Planning Department of the City of Warsaw
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AMBIENT KERB
The main idea behind this project strictly adheres to the defined needs of the users of the district as
well as specific ways of using urban space. This approach creates livable pubic spaces and courtyards.
The design idea is also based on an analysis of Praga’s social and physical condition. The method of
thinking presented in this design is intended to catalyze, strengthen, and provide opportunities to develop
existing functions and meeting places encouraging different kinds of people to spend their time outside
with other users. To do this, the authors apply a very interesting solution that has been used to create
many of the most successful public spaces in Europe. The authors get into the users’ shoes with great
sincerity and try to provide those users with the spatial equipment that is needed to make the use of
space more comfortable and longer. The design takes into account the variety of users and encourages
contacts among them. The design tends to facilitate many kinds of activities rather than forcing any. The
result will probably be a provoking of spontaneous acts of adapting to local use. The place will simply
grow in time, developing more possibilities to attract users. Users will probably feel greater attachment
and responsibility to such interventions, as they are going to be made with their participation.
Physical interventions are based on several basic ideas that were mentioned in the competition
goals—promoting participation by residents, retaining continuity of place identity, reinforcing the integration of different users, using social space as a link among the different life spaces of the area, and
maintaining the atmosphere that is one of the most appreciated features of the Nowa Praga District.
The authors use several approaches to make Wileńska Street and the courtyards work. The space is inviting
for everybody who is needed in the place. There is also a wide view of Wileńska Street as a whole. Included
among small interventions are the placement of important public space functions such as shops and cafes,
lighting, and the transportation system. There are also many informal sitting and meeting areas that are divided
into two groups. The first are points for new functions that are not spatially dominating, but carefully placed.
The rest are surfaces that are mainly placed near existing places—places which have already been attracting
users—in order to increase their influence on the quality of Wileńska Street (this was demonstrated in research
conducted prior to the competition, the report of which was added to the competition materials).
An important advantage of this design is the way applied for implementing changes: No initial big
changes that could result in protests or angry mobs, but small changes that can be more easily approved by residents who will have the time to get used to them. This will let the inhabitants prepare
themselves for the bigger interventions and may avert the potential social consequences of changing
stable areas without step by step actions.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
Architects Luciano Gonzalez Alfaya, Spain; Patricia Muñiz Nuñez – Spain; Cesar Escudero
Gonzalez – Spain; Michael Cooke – Great Britain; Silvia Canda Exposito – Spain; Stuart
Mackellar – Great Britain; Yago Carro Patiño – Spain
EUROPAN 10
Jury statement
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TAKE PART
Jury statement
EUROPAN 10
The main idea behind the 10th edition of the Europan in Warsaw: Wileńska
Street Competition was the creation of a “living room” for the inhabitants of
this area. The “Wileńska – Take Part” design is a fresh, simple, and yet very
comprehensive approach to one of the key unsolved problems of Warsaw:
lack of participation.
The authors decided to take a step backwards and let the inhabitants of the
area define their real needs in the simplest, albeit not necessarily the easiest
way: They asked them directly.
This approach was not easy. People living in the Praga District are often convinced that the city authorities do not really care about their situation. They
have strong feelings of being marginalized and are mistrustful when it comes
to contacts with any officials. The authors even had a chance of finding this
out for themselves when they were attacked by one of the inhabitants invited
to take part in the process. Despite this setback, they managed to establish a
common ground for communication and created a simple way for the inhabitants to state their needs.
The aggregated result of their poll is presented not as a final design for the
project area, but rather as a next step in a long process of negotiations. It can
still be adapted and corrected by both the people from the area as well as by
the local authorities who will decide to use this result.
The proposed methodology is flexible. It can be used in other districts—not
necessarily ones with similar social problems—and can be easily adapted.
However, the method has its limitations just like any other poll. An aggregated
result is not always a compromise. It can ultimately turn out not to be good
for the interested parties, especially when people asked about their needs are
not competent enough to name them and are forced to choose from among
limited options suggested by the authors of the poll.
Still, using a huge, colorful model of the project site and bringing it to the
interested people is a new quality in Warsaw, a new way of consulting investment plans and a good starting point to find final answers to the question of
how to arrange the “living room” for inhabitants of Wileńska Street.
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
Architects Marlena Happach – urban planner, Poland; Marek Happach – Poland;
Dominika Tomaszewska – Poland
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(OUT)DOOR
narrow street gives more space for people
wileńska 1
safe bus stop
Praga
project headoffice
entrance
sport activity
rebuilded dwellings
planting trees
meeting space
street gardens
retail trade
kiosk
children playing
gate gives identity
sami public space
outdoor commerce
private spaces
new activity
Jury statement
beauty and value of the applied materials and social aspects.
The design directs attention at the functional and social issues of the liberated space—developed outdoor
activities. The design is an example of new intervention in an historical urban structure and demonstrates
the different steps of this process. The design process focused on an attempt to apply the already developed solutions on the basis of a “good fit rule.” New architecture created in the context of the historic
city center is intended to mark the arrival of a new era. This must not be forgotten here. Its architectural
and spatial form will always oppose the historic context, which is a positive point in the discussion. At
this stage of deliberations, it is important to introduce the statement that the city, with all its conditioning
factors and components, cannot live without the community. Here, urbanization becomes a reference
point that has been making its imprint upon the nature of the city—from its origin up to now.
The authors of the design are pointing to the problem of the intensity of the urban structure—buildings
in a spatial quarter. The jury is of the view that this way of thinking is much too radical. Such spatial
decisions and interventions can destroy the internal environment of urban net of the Praga District. The
positive point of this design is the proposal to redevelop the existing buildings, public spaces, and
examples of small architecture.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Authors Daniel Załuski – architect, Poland;
Łukasz Piankowski – architecture student, Poland
EUROPAN 10
Design No. AA689 is an important voice in the discussion on the revitalization of urban spaces from
the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th century. The aim of the design is to create public spaces
that integrate different fields of human activity in the district. Urban redevelopment of this area is a long
process combining different methods—renovation, destruction, and social disorder, for example.
The interesting part of this design is the division of the space into four levels. Each of the levels generates
a variety of different behaviors in reference to local tradition. This way of thinking helps to define local
expectations and needs. The authors of the design follow the patterns created by Jamie Lerner. However,
this is not to be an anonymous act of copying, but rather an act of creating new forms that have their
own places in theory of planning.
Geometry is one of the important elements of this design. It creates geometric lines and right angels in
the city’s space. The authors want to enclose the building space within a spatial framework in reference
to the existing context. Geometry assists the architect in formulating rules of appropriate design of
building space and small architecture, including space in residential buildings. The impression of
transparency and simplicity is the determinant of the new architecture and spatial creations. Such an
approach allows for a presenting of the building and environment as a game, aimed at showing the
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WORK, CARE & PLAY
Jury statement
EUROPAN 10
The authors of the design point out the main problems facing the district bordering on Wileńska Street
that must be solved in the nearest future—social cohesion between today’s lower class inhabitants
and newcomers from middle and upper social groups. The historical architectural values and local
legend are attractions for new development that can accelerate the gentrification process of the area.
Two social groups with completely different cultural aspirations and life needs must be respected in
the planning process and given equal rights.
The main decision is to narrow the existing Wileńska Street and use the gained public ground for the
improvement of the open public space system. The former transportation corridor is now divided
into two main zones of different character:
1. The Wileński marketplace environs in conjunction with the bus station provides better spatial
organization and service/supply infrastructure for the existing functions of the square, which serves
the needs of commuters and locals, and
2. The central part of Wileńska Street, leisure park zone consisting of a newly created strip of public
green area and proposed large new open–air facilities for a kindergarten and sport (located in the
attached area), serving needs of the local community as well as supra–local integration.
The Leisure Park Zone is endowed with a clear spatial definition of its borders:
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ew coordination site – A new building housing a wide range of functions supporting local social
and cultural work in the district, providing the district with a number of much–needed workshops
Authors Maria Ceran – architect, Poland;
Maciej Wilczek – architecture student, Poland
and spaces. The new communal building is also meant as a kind of “showroom” for local activities
and ongoing programs.
– T he new coordination center building is located as a continuation of the existing urban composition. The form of the proposed architecture for this facility was found as being too closed, which
could be recognized by people suffering social exclusion as not sufficiently inviting and therefore
not accepted.
– A number of low pavilions hosting the retail service facilities for the park (cafés, shops, toilets, and
storage space) form a kind of the massive back wall to the park area. This solution was strongly
discussed because of the danger that this kind of small architectural object may became an unnecessary urban barrier between the small public square and whole leisure zone.
– Putting sport facilities and a children’s playground together with public green areas and the square
are recognized as a proper approach to invite elderly people to the public space. They can enjoy
it in the company of children or observe street life as well as sports games.
All spatial decisions proposed in this design protect the original urban structure of the regular grid.
Only the proposed improvements in the courtyards—demolition of the rear annex buildings—cannot
be accepted.
The form of the sport facilities and kindergarten open spaces need a rethink to better suit the needs
of the local society and to increase social activation and involvement.
GLUTATHIONE
Jury statement
The intention of the authors is to preserve the social mix of the Praga neighborhood while strengthening
the local economy and opening up the district—especially Wileńska Street to its surroundings. They
want to link Praga to the left bank by picking up incoming visitors by ferry and delivering them to the
municipal beach in the summertime as well as by a rickshaw service using a new pedestrian and bicycle
bridge across the railroad tracks and via a path across Wileński Square, linking Wileńska Street on a
local scale with its surroundings. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic is further enhanced by the conversion of
Wileńska Street into a shared space.
Authors Piotr Czech – architect, Poland; Rafał Świerczyński – architect, Poland; Małgorzata
Bajowska – architect, Poland; Lidia Archacka – architect, Poland; Siarhei Liubimau – sociologist,
Belarus; Benjamin Cope – philosopher, Breat Britain; Marek Konopka – architect, Poland
Development is supposed to be stimulated by a multifunctional, multilateral, and monochromatic figure
wandering through the street space and linking several points of public interest. This red line is called
Glutathione—a component of a medicine strengthening old bodies—that is meant to prevent both
decay and unhealthy investments—as a somewhat dramatic sign to raise the spirit of self–worth of the
inhabitants as well as of change. Thus, this line mainly connects the newly constructed NGO Center,
which is dedicated to support and coordinate the local economy and a children’s playground.
Apart from the NGO Center, the authors do not propose any new construction, but put the focus on
renovation and reprogramming—a youth hostel and social services, an outdoor sports areas featuring kick bag and punch ball, an open–air cinema, affordable gastronomical services around the bus
stop, etc.
Upon closer examination, the design that at first seemed somewhat hysterical turns out to be a strategic
project using the soft step–by–step argumentation of social development and stabilization, without
exclusion, but rather asking for a charismatic, even irritating gesture and signature, to get started.
This statement was discussed amid much controversy in the jury, which questioned whether the
Glutathione is already enough or just too much to support the authors’ intentions.
EUROPAN 10
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STREETS TO USE!
Jury statement
EUROPAN 10
The main assumption in the design is that town planning is only a part of the revitalization process.
The authors propose and accentuate the need for social change as the most essential
part of project.
The process of revitalization should be carried out over several steps.
The foundation is organization as a basis to modify the way of life in the whole area of
Nowa Praga (study site). In combination with local policy, the district can be saturated
with activity points that can radiate throughout the whole of their surroundings. The
strategy should involve long–term leases of commercial units to residents as well as the
organizing of cultural, artistic, and public life. The revitalizing of Wileńska Street will be
a leading project of this foundation intent on making the street vibrant with life.
Further action involves the transformation of the courtyards into the green spaces
interconnected by the system of existing gates. Walls of garbage sheds can become
boards for painting. In this way, the authors create a mechanism for stimulating both
residents and visitors to action.
The intersection with Zaokopowa Street is proposed as a place for entertainment. The
design suggests this as a central point of Wileńska Street, a site of supra–local character.
These points and solutions should improve the quality of life of residents, attract the
attention of visitors, and create a place where people go, not go through.
Architects Katarzyna Reinhard – Poland;
Monika Morawiak – Poland
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VITAL PRAGA
Authors Christiane Lange – architect, Germany; Christiana Wulfrath – philosopher, Germany;
Cosima Nolte – architecture student, Germany
Jury statement
EUROPAN 10
The Interfacial Triangle Strategy and an Almost Ordinary Street
This design gives an interesting definition of the study area. It starts with the fact that there are belts of
ground along its borders that greatly differ from the rest of the area. The authors use these spaces as
the interfaces (green interface, local trade + economy interface, arts + culture interface) connecting
the area with the outer world.
The focus on the small interventions and combinations of different kinds of projects fosters the preservation of the character of the district. The way in which the blocks are divided into smaller units lets
the identity of the inhabitants of single buildings be preserved, while simultaneously encouraging an
extension of integration among inhabitants of different buildings.
The primary value of the design lies in its proposal of a typology of spatial interventions that is integrated with social action (e.g. reconstruction and refurbishment works carried out by the inhabitants
themselves). Such elements as community gardens answer a need of the low–income inhabitants
of the area while at the same time encouraging the enrichment of social life. The small scale of the
proposed building types allows the preservation of the character of the area and integration of different
kinds of inhabitants (there is also a proposal for commercial apartment houses or even single family
units filling the smallest gaps between the existing buildings).
The proposal for Wileńska Street is not developed in detail, but it proposes interesting ways of using the
existing potential (the market on the south side that is a part of the local economy interface and the plaza
created through a retraction of a part of the railway management building away from the street).
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THE KEY
Residential buildings
Number of apartments
lack of data
less than 50
51 – 100
101 – 400
401 – 1000
more than 1000
Non-residential buildings
Usable floor area:
lack of data
up to 3 500 m2
3 501 – 7 000 m2
7 001 – 28 000 m2
28 001 – 70 000 m2
more than 70 000 m2
Office buildings
Usable floor area:
lack of data
up to 3 500 m2
3 501 – 7 000 m2
7 001 – 28 000 m2
28 001 – 70 000 m2
more than 70 000 m2
Constructions completed in 2009
Buildings under construction
Planned constructions
Constructions – prospect
roads under construction
roads planned
roads – prospect
For all those interested in the development and modernization of Warsaw, the Biuro
Planowania Rozwoju Warszawy S.A. (Warsaw Planning Development Office) prepared
Warszawska Mapa Inwestycji (WMI – Map of Warsaw Construction Investments) which
depicts changes in Warsaw’s spatial development.
Map of Warsaw Construction Investments is:
• a database containing basic information about planned, being under construction
or just finished constructions;
• a database containing information about the new important multi-residential, office
and retail constructions;
• a database containing information about the most important changes in Warsaw’s
infrastructure and city transportation system;
• a database containing information about investment’s location, name, size, planned
completion, and basic information about each investor.
The WMI is constantly updated on the basis of data obtained from the developers,
investors and Warsaw Government Municipal Office (Long-term Investment Plan and
administrative decissions).
At the moment we have almost 900 items in our database:
• more than 550 housing estates and multi-residential buildings;
• about 200 office buildings;
• about 90 changes in road network and city transportation system.
These sets of data allow for analysis of changes in city’s spatial development. In our
work especially helpful are Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which make analysis easier and are tools, thanks to which it is possible to illustrate gathered data.
The WMI is available both as a traditional map and as a digital one with special
computer application.
MAP OF WARSAW CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENTS
Authors Biuro Planowania Rozwoju Warszawy S.A. • Lidia Kluska, Stanisław Kosewski, Przemysław Podolak,
Anna Vorbrodt
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The Konstruktorska Street area – 130 hectares in the northern part of the Służewiec Przemysłowy (5 km from the Palace of Culture and Science), comprising post-industrial areas heavily
transformed into business parks.
Today’s street network is limited and adapted to previous industrial character. There is the
lack of links between areas located along both sides of Woloska Street and between the whole
area and the rest of the city.
MAIN AIMS OF THE PROJECT
• incorporation of the area into city’s spatial structure – linking with the surrounding public
spaces and creation of an attractive, multipurpose area linked with rail stations and public
greenery – Królikarnia, Fort Mokotów, Dworzec Południowy (Southern Rail Station) and
Galeria Mokotów mall;
• creation of the new, attractive layout of public spaces (squares, streets, green areas – partly
located in the inactive railway siding), creation of the main axis (Konstruktorska and Abramowskiego Streets traffic arteries) on both sides of the Wołoska St. Construction of the new
school, preschool, park, low greenery areas and main squares;
• creation of an attractive multipurpose area comprising business parks, residential quarters,
lofts, school, preschools, park, low greenery areas and commercial retail units;
• improvement of the city transportation – the new bus lines leading to rail and metro stations,
extension of the tram line, new bus lines serving the area.
SŁU˚EWIEC PRZEMYSŁOWY – KONSTRUKTORSKA STREET AREA
Authors DAWOS • Krzysztof Domaradzki (PhD), Marek Sawicki, Dorota Sawicka, Piotr
Sawicki, Rafał Wysocki Client the City of Warsaw
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The site of the project, which covers 90 hectares of area, is situated
on the border between two districts, Wola and Ursus. It is comprising many various areas: two graveyards, Fort V – Włochy fortifications, residential building development of the garden-city Włochy,
business parks and malls located along Jerozolimskie Av., and all
that remained of the orchards and farms. An area that is outlined
by Ryżowa, Kleszczowa, Dzieci Warszawy Streets and Jerozolimskie
Av., has either inner structure or public space layout.
BASIC AIMS OF THE PROJECT
• linking this area with the city’s spatial layout – linking the garden-city Włochy with the Ursus district public space network;
• creation of an urban network of public space – new alleys and
squares on the southern side of the Fort and graveyards, and
upgrading existing roads network – easier access to graveyards
and Fort Włochy, which is becoming a new community centre;
• upgrading the standard of education, culture, sports and recreation in the Fort Włochy area, preservation of the garden-city
character in the norther part of the site of the project;
• highest possible enlargement of graveyards area; creation of new
graveyards’ entrances to the south – public squares with limited
street trading (flowers, lights and candles) and parking areas;
• improving of the transportation; construction of new exits from
business parks located along Jerozolimskie Av., construction of
new traffic routes and linking them with planned Nowo-Lazurowa
St.; new local traffic routes linking Włochy and Ursus districts.
DESIGNED LAYOUT OF GREENERY - AXONOMETRY
DESIGNED LAYOUT OF PUBLIC SPACE - AXONOMETRY
RY˚OWA STREET – GRAVEYARD AREA
Authors DAWOS • Krzysztof Domaradzki (PhD), Marek Sawicki, Dorota Sawicka, Piotr Sawicki, Rafał Wysocki
Client the City of Warsaw
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Task 5 – Szpitalna St.
– broadening of sidewalks and ordering of surface car spaces;
– new commercial retail units in quadrangles located on the
eastern side of area;
Tasks 6, 7 and 8 – Chmielna plaza – Bracka St., Krucza St.,
between Bracka St., and Jerozolimskie Av.; Bracka St. between
Chmielna St., and Jerozolimskie Av.
– limitation of the traffic on Krucza nad Bracka St. in the Chmielna
St. area;
– securing easy access to Chmielna St. and Braci Jabłkowskich
Department Store;
– upgrading the standard of the foot path linking Chmielna St. with
Wiecha Passage and Nowy Świat St.;
– creation of plaza on the intersection of Chmielna and Bracka St.;
– making clear the historic run of Bracka St.;
– securing access to Widok and Krucza St.;
– opening of the quadrangles located in the quarter delimited by
Bracka, Chmielna, Nowy Świat St. and Jerozolimskie Av.
PRELIMINARY GUIDELINES:
– plaza free from vehicular traffic; pavement cafes, etc.;
– new infill in Bracka St. frontage; modernization of Smyk and Arka buildings;
– Chmialna St. foot-path slightly accentuated in plaza’s floor;
– road on the plaza level going around a Sphinx restaurant’s pavement café
(through Szpitalna and Zgoda Streets, not linked with Krucza St.)
– new greenery on the plaza and Bracka St.
main plazas
main foot paths
main streets
composition axes
monuments, etc.
important public buildings
commercial retail units, cafes, etc.
roads
sidewalks
The plan was prepared in order to define rules and guidlines for the transformation of the public space
running along Bracka and Szpitalna Streets, which spatially unites the city centre from Trzech Krzyży
Square to Piłsudskiego Square.
The pre-war, ‘oblique’ Bracka, Szpitalna and Mazowiecka Streets (as well as Mokotowska, Polna,
Koszykowa and Twarda Streets) after the war have been cut by broad traffic routes running through
city centre (for example Marszałkowska, Świętokrzyska and Chałubińskiego Streets that have been
significantly broaden).
More over, the greater part of the public space has been taken by surface car spaces and roads,
therefore not much space has been left for pedestrians, cyclists, pavement cafés, etc.
BASIC AIMS OF THE PROJECT:
• limitation of the traffic, especially on the Krucza, Szpitalna and Mazowiecka Streets; imposing
constraints on traffic flows in the Chmielna St. area;
BRACKA AND SZPITALNA STREETS – URBAN ANALYSIS OF
THE PUBLIC SPACE TRANSFORMATION
Authors DAWOS • Krzysztof Domaradzki (PhD), Renata Jóźwik, Diana Polkowska, Dorota Sawicka,
Piotr Sawicki, Marek Sawicki Client the City of Warsaw
• ordering surface car spaces;
• broadening of the functional space for pedestrians;
• new cafes, restaurants, shops, theatres, clubs, etc on the ground floors of the buildings;
• creation of new inner passages complementing public space layout;
• linking the Trakt Królewski (Royal Road) with Defilad Square through modernized Złota Street;
• delimiting new thematic routes (culture and tradition);
• upgrading the standard of public space – revitalization of streets and squares; new small architecture
and pavement cafes; developing of attractive program for public space;
• creating the user friendly public space for everyone, and especially for disabled persons.
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The plan of land development of the Rydygiera St. assumes the development
of a promenade style street. The basic aims of the project are: redeveloping
of the road; building of a new surface car spaces; building of a new cycle
path and pavements; developing of new plazas; planting of new greenery;
developing of new street lamps; developing of new small architecture.
This street will become the main line of the communication linking the new
residential quarters with the Żoliborz district.
The main aim of the project is to transform the postindustrial street into
an attractive public space with special character and high aesthetics. The
Rydygiera St. will not only serve for communication purposes, but it will be
a public space ‘integrating’ the residents. Cafes, restaurants and other commercial retail units will be located along the street and will give the latter a
promenade style. Foot and cycle paths will be separated from the carriageway
by rows of trees, hedges and low greenery. Pavements and plazas’ surfaces
will be made of high quality paving stones and stone paving slabs. Modern
and elegant small architecture and street lamps will be made according to
individual specifications.
Street’s illumination will encourage residents to have a late walk. The street
will have its own style and character. Rydygiera St. will become a kind of
‘forum’ for the surrounding residential development and it will be integrated
with the redeveloped Grunwaldzki Square.
RYDYGIERA STREET DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Location Żoliborz district Architects mąka.sojka.architekci • Radosław Sojka, Maciej
Mąka, Radosław Bajor, Jakub Kalinowski Collaborating landscape architect Robert
Nowicki Client Żoliborz District of the City of Warsaw Design 2010 Completion 2010
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COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREAS
COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREAS IN GREENERY
COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREAS AND SINGLE-FAMILY
HOUSES
COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREAS IN GREENERY
AND SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES
EDUCATION – PRESCHOOL, HEALTH CARE,
CULTURE, SPORTS AND LEISURE
EDUCATION, SPORTS AND LEISURE
SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES
SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES WITH COMMERCIAL
RETAIL AREAS
MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WITH
COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREAS
GREEN BELTS AND ORDERED GREENERY
GREEN BELTS WITH CAR PARKS
ALLOTMENTS
FOOTH PATHS AND ORDERED GREENERY
FOOTH PATHS AND CYCLE PATHS
The plan covers 240 hectares of area situated in the south-central
part of the Białołęka district. The area is outlined by Kanał Żerański
(Żerański Channel) to the north, Kanał Bródnowski (Bródnowski Channel) to the east, Trasa Toruńska (Toruńska Express Route) to the south
and Białołęcka St. to the west.
The site of the plan covers the post agricultural landscape with mixeduse residential building development. In accordance with the Studium
m. st. Warszawy (the City of Warsaw Spatial Development Plan) the
single-family houses development plays the key role here.
The following rules of the spatial order are being introduced:
• modernization and developing of the road network;
• introducing new green areas along Bródnowski Channel and Żerański
Channel connected with local greenery, allotments and the park;
• green areas linking through cycle paths network;
• developing of existing social infrastructure;
• creating local centre of the housing estate – mixed-use building
development with convenient access;
• d efining rules of protection and shaping of the spacial order
through:
– preserving the key role of the extensive building development –
single-family houses;
– concentration of the commercial retail buildings in the recommended areas;
– c reating of the commercial retail areas along main street;
– prohibiting location of the commercial centers covering more than
2000 m2 in area;
– p rohibiting location of multi-unit residential buildings; except the
first and second area of mixed-use residential buildings;
– limiting the number of houses to four per town-house;
– limiting buildings height in accordance with local architectural
tradition;
– using of the subdued colors in building’s color schemes and proper
shaping of the roofs.
The plan was drawn up on the order of the City of Warsaw and has been
accepted in January 2010. It opens another areas of Warsaw for good
quality residential development.
BIAŁOŁ¢KA WIEÂ HOUSING ESTATE LOCAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Plan by Studio KA • Krystyna Gruszecka (PhD), landscape architects Justyna Zakościelna, Mirosław Gajdak,
Katarzyna Łysyganicz, Dominika Wójtowicz, Stefan Parys (city infrastructure).
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street lines and car parks
cobblestones
sidewalks
greenery
buildings
border line of the site of investment
The redevelopment of the street and its adjacent areas, started in 2009, resulted in a bigger cark park (120 cars and
8 coaches). The car park was designed in a way that allows using it for open air events and fairs.
The public toilet is situated on the west. Its facades will be covered with wooden louvers and pergolas with creepers
trained on it.
The square in front of the Sw. Anny (Saint Anna) church will also be redeveloped. On December 13th 2009 it was named
the ‘Skwer Prymasowski’ (Primate Square).
From Przyczółkowska St. to the Museum Palace in Wilanow, pavements will be made of granite paving slabs. Road and car
spaces surface will be made of decorative stone paving, called the Belgian block. Much of the road will be made of historic
cobblestones excavated from under the asphaltic concrete surface. This part of street will be closed to traffic.
The pavement from the square located in front of the church and then along the street will be shifted and 11 gas lightings
will be installed in front of the palace.
Redeveloped Stanisława Kostki Potockiego St., with its pavements, benches and greenery will have a promenade style and
will surely become one of the best looking streets in Warsaw; worthy of the historic surroundings with the king’s residence.
The completion of the redevelopment is planned for 2010.
STANISŁAWA KOSTKI POTOCKIEGO STREET
MODERNIZATION
Client Wilanów District of the City of Warsaw
Architects Autorska Pracownia Architektury CAD Sp. z o.o.
General contractor Mabau Polska Sp. z o.o.
Completion 2009-2010
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‘The design assumes the division of the park into two areas: a historic one, with the św. Michała (Saint Michael) church
built in 1798, located in the quarter delimited by Warszawska, Kościuszki, Wybickiego, Lotników Streets; and a modern
one, with designed stage, amphitheatrically auditorium and a square playing a role of sundial with fountain (delimited by
Sukienna, Kościuszki, Wybickiego and Lotników Streets).
The preserved network of park alleys suggests regular and symmetric layout typical for classicistic parks. We wish to
restore and complement it. We are introducing a radial layout of alleys running from the squares.
The landscaping axis consists of 3 squares in the ‘historic zone’ and one large square in the ‘modern zone’. It is sundial
in shape and consists of a stage, an amphitheatrically auditorium and a fountain. The auditorium is located in a small
basin.
The project of greenery covers the restoration of the original flora and the circulation layout arranged for educational and
recreational purposes.
The geometric in-style park is located in the centre of the city. Therefore it is very important to use evergreen plants for
the creation of green belts. The row of trees will comprise: shaped yew, Canadian hemlock and rhododendrons that, in
the best way, will isolate the park from the street.
In the northern part of the park a children playground, approx. 1000 square meters, is located.
The planned restoration also anticipates the enlargement of the square with the Józef Wybicki monument and a new
greenery planted on it. In the central part of the square, round in shape, a flowerbed is situated highlighting the city
character of the park.
The third square (designed one) is quadrilateral in shape and it will emphasize the symmetry of the park and it will close
the ‘historic zone’.
The specificity of the project required the restoration of the previous, charming style of the historic park (on the axis of
the church which is entered into register of historic places) as well as the creation of a high quality public space in the
centre of the city.
We designed the original in form and attractive public space, taking into consideration needs of the residents, comments
of aldermen and others who took part in the City Council session.
The project was approved by the Heritage Office.’
JÓZEFA WYBICKIEGO PARK MODERNIZATION PLAN –
NOWY DWÓR MAZOWIECKI CITY
Architects PROART Pracownia Architektoniczno-Konserwatorska ANN A ROSTKOWSKA • Anna
Rostkowska, Anna Kuflewska, Małgorzata Połeć Structural engineers Krzysztof Pawłowski, Sławomir
Szarleja Landscape architecture by Leokadia Mazur Client the City of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki Design
2009 Completion 2012
Site area: 27 000 m2
1. Square with Józefa Wybickiego monument.
2. Square with flowerbed.
3. Square.
4. Square with stage and sundial.
D. Escarpment.
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The basic aim of the project is creation of the park. The latter
was divided as follows:
– border zone – entrance plazas with pavilions;
– passepartout area – high greenery and hedges emphasized
by low greenery planted in gravel; it is a green belt separating
park’s interior from the city;
– inner area – meadows destined for recreation or open air
events;
– central area – the heart of the park – children’s playground
and pavilions;
– high greenery area – situated in the triangle delimited by
3 park alleys.
Main objects situated in the border zone and passepartout
area:
– main entrance plaza with pavilions – café, club, gallery, in
front of them a “Map of the World” sculpture of educational
character; pond inside the park; an open-air event area with
summer stage; a bocce court located adjacent to the café;
– ‘the dog park’ – area outlined by hedges, partly planted with
trees; one can walk the dog there (dog playground, dog toilet,
electrical illumination, benches and water supply tap);
– fitness devices;
– high greenery area – venue of exhibitions;
– central area – the heart of the park – children’s playground
equipped with creative constructions and synthetic surface;
minigolf courses; park picnic tables;
– ‘Orlik’ complex of sports fields.
J. POLI¡SKIEGO PARK MODERNIZATION PROJECT
Location Szaserów St., Praga Południe district Architects Marek Wojciechowski, Piotr Czuba, Maciej Latoszek, Wioletta
Wojtaszewska Collaboration Bartosz Saganowski Landscape architects Agnieszka Kowalewska, Jarosław Rogólski, Katarzyna
Kwiatkowska Sculpture Mariusz Mierzejewski Collaboration Teresa i Dariusz Kowalscy Client Praga Południe district of the City
of Warsaw Concept of design 2008 – SARP competition first prize winner Design 2009 Completion 2010-2011
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One of the basic aims of the project was the preservation of the recreational character of the square. The site of the investment contains the
monument of the Nazi Germany Konzentrazion Lager Warschau victims
therefore, the project anticipates only a little intervention in this part of
the square. The modernized square shall be linked with the public space
on the Prądzyńskiego St. where, at the moment, the residential complex
is being under construction. The nearby historic buildings of the Warsaw
Gasworks are also being transformed for residential purposes. The third
building will be reconstructed in place of foundations of the historic
gasometer as a commercial one. Its modern form will refer to the historic
ones and they will create a cohesive complex of buildings.
It is anticipated that all healthy trees will be preserved. Only those that
are being dangerous or sick will be cut down. The square is divided
into four areas. The first one is located nearby the Prądzyńskiego St.
and comprises KL Warschau victims monument with the alley covered
with mineral pavement. The monument is surrounded only by the vast
lawns to avoid the visual obstructions like trees or hedges. Completely
different in character is the central area comprising the dynamic circulation network and the children’s playground surrounded by the different
in height hedges. The triangular entrance plazas are located on the
Brylowskiej and the Krzyżanowskiego St.
The smooth transitions between the surrounding buildings and the park’s
areas gave an effect of the cohesive composition. The square serves as a
leisure area for the residents of the new designed complex, whereas the
previous users gained the access to the interesting and valuable historic
architecture of the Gasworks.
ALOJZY PAWEŁEK SQUARE TRANSFORMATION PROJECT
Location Wola-Czyste Architect Jerzy Ebing Landscape architects Marta Grzybowska, Anna
Szewczak Small architecture Ewa Ebing Clients Wola District of the Citz of Warsaw/JUMA sp.j.
Site of the investment Wola District of the Citz of Warsaw – 35 423 m2, JUMA sp.j. – 18 965 m2
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ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKI SQUARE
circulation, place of meetings,
open air event
‘LIVING RIVER’ PARK
education, exhibitions about river’s wildlife,
ornithological observation posts,
natural vegetation
The boulevard’s area will become, in the near future, one of the most important tourist attractions. The project assumes that representative, recreational and cultural functions will be combined. It provides an opportunity to create the new attractive places in
the cityscape.
The composition of the leftbank boulevards is a clear layout of squares and linear public spaces – so called connectors. The squares
have been located in place of existing and designed, compositional and functional connections with the city. They will be easy to
identify because of the characteristic, sail in shape street lights. The connections with the city are emphasized by the names of
squares, the change in the direction of the surface and other small architecture facilities. The passages between the level of the
river and the Boulevards will be shaped in the tectonic style, depicting the erosion processes caused by the river. Squares will be
connected by the sidewalks on the side of the river, the cycle paths and the vertical elements such as trees, street lights and mobile
pavilions (beach bars with sunlounger rental, showers and toilets; galleries; restaurants; cafes; tourist information). Such layout will
create the space in which every user will fill comfortable and it will also look clear from the other side of the river.
The project anticipates also the building of wharfs with the services for recreational boating; the water bus stops and the sightseeing
vessels wharf in front of the Royal Castle.
LEFT BANK OF THE RIVER VISTULA SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN –
AREA DELIMITED BY TAMKA AND BOLEÂå STREETS. First prize in competition
Architects RS Architektura Krajobrazu • Dorota Rudawa, Patryk Zaręba Pavilions project by
Artchitecture Sp. z o.o.
UNIVERSITY SQUARE
amphitheatre,
open air events
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OFFICE BUILDING
Location Foksal St., Śródmieście district Architects APA Wojciechowski
Sp. z o.o. • Szymon Wojciechowski, Michał Sadowski, Witek Dudek, Marcin
Grzelewski, Piotr Zielawski, Joanna Nowosadzka, Michał Grabski, Marcin
Szubski, Michał Uchwat Client DIPSERVICE S.A. Design 2009
Total volume: 19 600 m3 • Total floor area: 5 205 m2 • Usable floor area:
3 726 m2 • 7 floors • 2 undeground levels • 52 basement car spaces
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‘EUROCENTRUM’. HOTEL AND BUSINESS PARK
Location 136 Jerozolimskie Av., Ochota district Architects PRC Architekci
Sp. z o.o. • Igor Galas, Andrzej Michalik, Andrzej Jurkiewicz Collaborating
architects Agnieszka Wejchert, Bartłomiej Chwalczyk, Agata Żak, Piotr
Migdalski, Małgorzata Ławicka, Ewa Woźny, Agnieszka Ludwig, Grzegorz
Starzak Client Capital Park Structural engineers Rybcent Sp. z o.o.
Completion 2009
Total volume: 401 023 m3 • Total floor area: 137 601 m2 • Usable floor
area: 71 420 m2 • 16 floors • 3 undeground levels • 790 basement car
spaces
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‘˚ELAZNA 23’ OFFICE BUILDING
Location 23 Żelazna St., Wola district Architects em JEDNACZ Architekci •
Mirosław Jednacz, Jan R. Pietrzak Collaborating architect Paweł Słupiański
Client Poczta Polska (Polish Post) Design 2009 Completion 2011/2012
66 000 m2 • 32 floors • 2 undeground levels • 225 basement car spaces
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MIXED-USE BUSINESS PARK
The main urban and architectural assumption of the project is to define the sculpting group of dominants in the quarter located in the south-western part of the area
surrounding the Daszyńskiego Roundabout. The complex consists of few towers.
The spatial solution proposed in the project is a result of the detailed urban,
landscape and composition studies prepared for every possible landscape axis.
These studies confirmed the rights, postulated by the urban planners, for building in this area a local dominant called the ‘group dominant’. It will create a
harmonious, outstanding metropolitan landmark. This dominant has a compound
composition with the attractive urban openings in the every important direction.
Inside of such carefully, spatially and functionally studied dominant, inner and
outer public spaces are created, in the natural but well-thought-of way. They are
functionally connected with the cityscape, including the Rondo Daszyńskiego
metro station.
From the functional and urbanized point of view, this group dominant is essential
for the office and service functions. It is also an urban scale acoustic screen for
mega residential quarter outlined by Towarowa, Prosta, Kolejowa and Karolkowa
streets.
Location Sienna, Towarowa, Prosta Streets area, Wola district Architect
AMC – Andrzej M. Chołdzyński Sp. z o.o. • Andrzej M. Chołdzyński
Collaborating architects Bogumił Kidziak • Beata Świeboda-Budzyńska,
Magdalena Macioszczyk, Szymon Schmeidel, Grzegorz Zając Structural
engineers BWL-Projekt Sp. z o.o. Client CAPITALBUD Sp. z o.o. Design
2009 Completion 2011-2015
Total volume: approx. 719 000 m3 • Total floor area: 170 600 m2 • Usable
floor area: 85 400 m2 • 31 floors • 5 undeground levels • 20 surface car
spaces and 980 basement car spaces
Rendering: group of dominants comprising three towers up to 130 meters high
– Construction Investor CAPITAL BUD Sp. z o.o. (to the left) and one 195 meters
high tower - Construction Investor Pro-Urba Sp. z o.o. (to the right).
Business park consists of building A – 19 floors, building B – 31 floors,
building C – 31 floors. The multi-level underground parking garage area
covers nearly the whole site of investment area. Additional surface car
spaces on the site.
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‘ZEBRA TOWER’
The Place of Jazda Polska (a roundabout) marks a crossing of two main communication axes of Warsaw Armii Ludowej Avenue, connecting the Warsaw Airport to the Łazienkowski Bridge and thus to the other bank
of Wisła, on the one hand, and Waryńskiego Street, on the other. The latter is the main trail between Mokotów and Środmieście districts, together with their host of historic, 19th century streets such as Mokotowska
or even older Polna, with its well preserved, 18th century tracking.
Together with its architectural “neighbour” across the Place, the Zebra Tower is going to make a kind of
“Gate” further to the Centrum area.
Core prerequisites and designing challenges:
– to create a compact, yet clearly distinguishable in urban perspective, architectural mass with distinct
Location 1 Mokotowska St., Śródmieście district Architects Architekt Ernst
Hoffmann, Wien • Martin Troethan • Piotr Bujnowski of Piotr Bujnowski
Architekt, Warsaw • Client S+B Plan&Bau Design 2007-2008 Completion
2010
high-oriented dominant facing the Place (Roundabout).
– to enhance markedly dynamic, oscillating effect on the building elevation or façade, which seems to change
depending on an angle of observation – vertical friezes, embracing the construction all around between
ranges of windows, consist of bend elements, harmonizing with similarly bend windows in key corners,
well displayed in the south “tube” in particular;
– to close spatial gap towards Mokotowska Street – real challenge, as we have to close some space without
adding any building – by creating three dimensional spatial frame, or an actual urban sculpture equipped with
“floor” and “ceiling”, and with resulting opportunity to open a gallery for summer sculpture expositions;
– create flexible office space, which could be easily divided in segments of 200-300 sq. m.,
Volume: 66 401 m3 • Total floor area: 25 493 m2 • Usable floor area:
17 813 m2 • 15 floors + 2 mezzanine floors • 2 undeground levels •
124 basement car spaces
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‘VECTOR’ BUSINESS PARK
Location the korner of Obozowa and Prymasa Tysiąclecia Av. Architects
JSK Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Zbigniew Pszczulny, Mariusz Rutz • Michał Lah
(project manager), Marika Starzak, Przemysław Tymoszuk, Jędrzej Przyłuski,
Ulrike Strasen, Szymon Kalata Structural engineers Biuro Konstrukcyjne
Matejko i Partnerzy Client IVG Development Sp. z o.o. Design 2008/2009
Completion 2010/2011
‘Vector’ consists of two office blocks: 7 and 15 storey.
Volume: 84 344,9 m3 • Floor area (offices): 13 000 m2 • Floor area
(commercial retail units): 500 m2 • about 200 basement and surface car
spaces
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‘BUSINESS GARDEN’
Location Żwirki i Wigury, 1 Sierpnia and Iłżecka Streets area Architects
JSK Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Zbigniew Pszczulny, arch. Mariusz Rutz •
Jacek Abramowski (project manager), Natalia Berowska, Anna
Czapiewska, Agnieszka Lech, Tomasz Stefaniuk, Edward Dylawerski,
Paweł Adamiak, Marcin Chruśliński, Szymon Kalata, Monika KałkaKrzywda, Konrad Surowski, Maciej Reimann, Antoni Murza-Mucha
Collaborating teams of architects MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS ARCHITETTO,
Rome • COMARNISKI ARCHITEKTEN, Düsseldorf • JSK ARCHITEKTEN,
Düsseldorf Client Wiśniowy Office Park Sp. z o.o. Design 2007-2009
Completion 2010
area: 57 594 m2 • from 4 to 7 floors • 2 undeground levels • 38 surface
car spaces and 1487 basement car spaces
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‘PLATINIUM IV’ BUSINESS PARK
Location the korner of Domaniewska and Konstruktorska Streets, Mokotów
district Architects Grupa 5 Sp. z o.o. • Roman Dziedziejko, Mikołaj
Kadłubowski, Michał Leszczyński, Krzysztof Mycielski, Rafał Zelent, Rafał
Grzelewski, Agata Stelmach, Izabela Lisicka, Wojciech Chyliński, Łukasz
Olszewski, Natalia Soliwoda Client GTC Satellite Sp. z o.o. Design 2009
Total volume: 107 545,49 m3 • Total floor area: 18 734,95 m2 • Usable floor
area: 22 628,9 m2 including, overground section – 13 473,9 m2 • 12 floors
• 3 undeground levels • 3 surface car spaces and 224 basement car
spaces
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‘KONSTRUKTORSKA OFFICE DEVELOPMENT’
Location Konstruktorska St., Służewiec Przemysłowy Architects E&L
Architects Sp. z o.o. • Dariusz Leszczyński, Katarzyna Maryniak, Piotr
Cegiełko, Marcin Ratajczak Structural engineers Arcade Polska Client
KS Sp. z o.o. Design 2008 Completion 2010
75 110 m2 • 7 floors + 1 technical floor • 2 undeground levels • 36 surface
car spaces and 1090 basement car spaces
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OFFICE BUILDING
WEST ELEVATION
Location Pawia St.,Wola district Architects Biuro Projektów Kazimierski
i Ryba sp.j. • Tomasz Kazimierski (PhD), Andrzej Ryba, Katarzyna Szantroch,
Agnieszka Woźniak, Michał Kazimierski Collaboration OCSC Sp. z o.o.
Structural engineers OCSC Sp. z o.o Client OPTIMUM INWEST Sp. z o.o.
SOUTH ELEVATION
2 677 m2 • 7 floors • 1 undeground level • 36 basement car spaces
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The building is an infill located on Jerozolimskie Av. exit. It is a medium-rise office block, which brings order to the chaos of existing building development.
OFFICE BUILDING
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Location Jerozolimskie Av., Ursus district Architect Krzysztof Wolski of
Artinex Collaborating architects Tomasz Kanclerz, Jarosław Koryś, Piotr
Gasparski Client Private investor Design 2009
area: 2 322,78 m2 • 4 floors • 1 undeground levels • 30 basement car
spaces
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OFFICE BUILDING EXTENSION
4TH FLOOR PLAN
The subject of that project is the extension of the office building, development
of an underground parking garage and spatial development of the site of the
investment.
The building will have a flat roof and all technical facilities will be located on the
underground level. Its architectural form is similar to the surrounding buildings
and its color scheme mirrors the adjacent office block. The new structure will
have the curtain walls with vertical stripes made of transparent stone or perforated white metal sheets. Large glass spaces with openwork stripes and internal
movable panels will make the building’s façade looking light and spacious. As a
connecting structure we propose the five-storied glass patio either filled with the
greenery or playing a role of complement for the café.
Location 6 Ciasna St., Nowe Miasto Architects APA Markowski Architekci
Sp. z o.o. • Andrzej Markowski, Tomasz Kostrzewski Client Multico
Sp. z o.o.
Total floor area: 3 565,1 m 2; floors, total floor area – 2 217,34 m 2,
undeground level, total floor area – 1 347,8 m 2 • Usable floor area:
3 094,53 m2, offices, usable floor area – 1 228,15m2, garage, usable floor
area – 989,5 m2 • 5 floors • 1 undeground level • 37 basement car
spaces
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BUSINESS PARK
Location Mickiewicza and Rudzka Streets area, Bielany district Architects
mąka.sojka.architekci • Radosław Sojka, Maciej Mąka, Paweł Pyłka (project
manager), Jakub Kalinowski, Piotr Straszak, Grzegorz Madejski Structural
engineers TMJ Projekt Client Restaura Mickiewicza Sp. z o.o. Design 2009
Completion 2010
Blocks D, E, F, G
Total floor area: 25 280 m2 • Usable floor area (offices): 15 082 m2 • Usable
floor area (apartaments): 16 540 m2 • 7 floors • 2 undeground levels •
315 car spaces
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OFFICE BUILDING
Location Kolumbijska St., Bielany district Architects 4am Architekci s.c. •
Tomasz Karpiński, Małgorzata Krukowska, Arkadiusz Wróblewski, Ewelina
Wojciechowska, Aleksandra Sawicka Structural engineers Witold Rybiński,
Sławomir Chilczuk of Rybcent Client Expensa Sp. z o.o. Design 2009
10 652 m2 • 4 floors • 1 undeground level • 16 surface car spaces and
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POLISH SECURITY PRINTING WORKS –
BUILDING R SUPERSTRUCTURE
The pre-war building superstructure covers the area above the ventilation
room. A foot bridge have been hanged over the existing storeys. The
superstructure only slightly changes building’s form. On one hand it is
invisible from the level of the street, but on the other it is an observation
deck, from which one can see the river and Old Town.
Location 1 Sanguszki St., New Town Architects Artinex Krzysztof Wolski •
Krzysztof Wolski • Aspra Pracownia Architektoniczna • Adam Skrzypek
Client Polish Security Printing Works Design 2009
Total volume: 5 253 m3 • Total floor area: 2 138,4 m2 • Usable floor area:
1 341,7 m2 • 3 floors
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WATER MILL TRANSFORMATION INTO A HOTEL
The transformation of the watermill into the hotel at the Pisia River in Korytow is a first phase of
the hotel and leisure complex construction. The coherent vision connecting old and new was
created as a result of the perfect cooperation with the Province Heritage Preservation Officer.
The project preserved the original outline of the bastion on the ground level and the original
layout of windows. The superstructure of the building is very similar to the historic one.
The shoreline and channel providing water for the mill turbine also remained unchanged. These
elements will be highlighted by the transparent floor in the banquet room and restaurant. The
moat in front of the entrance was reduced. Its remnants have been covered with safety glass and
become the borderline between the new and old underground. The entrance hall consists of
reception desk, room for disabled persons and elements of vertical circulation which means stairs
and lift with glass doors. The foot bridge leads to the entrance and it is similar to those designed
for connection of the river banks.
Location 1 Krótka St., Korytów near Żyrardów Architect Jerzy Ebing
Collaboration Mikołaj Groniecki – architecture student, Antoni Szewczyk
– architecture student Interior architect Ewa Ebing Client Private owner
Design 2009/2010 Completion 2011/2012
Volume: 3 350 m3 • Total floor area: 1 450 m2 • Usable floor area: 1 087 m2
• 4 floors • 1 undeground level • approx. 50 surface car spaces + 3 for
disabled persons only • 25 twin units + 1 suite
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HOTEL WITH COMMERCIAL RETAIL UNITS
Location Raszyn Architects APA Wojciechowski Sp. z o.o. • Szymon
Wojciechowski, Michał Sadowski, Witold Dudek, Marcin Grzelewski, Rafał
Pamuła, Katarzyna Jabłońska-Bida, Anna Domagała-Sawka, Piotr Banasik,
Karol Pawłowski, Piotr Zielawski Structural engineers Grzegorz Ziętala of
T.K.M. Client Deporium Inc. Sp. z o.o. Design 2010 Completion 2012
34 basement car spaces • 138 double rooms and 6 suites
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HOTEL 5*
First prize in SARP competition.
Location Okęcie Airport Architects JEMS Architekci • Olgierd Jagiełło,
Maciej Miłobędzki, Marcin Sadowski, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski
Collaborating architects Maciej Rydz, Paweł Gozdyra, Paweł Majkusiak,
Marcin Puchacz, Magdalena Sakowicz, Dariusz Wasak Structural engineer
Adam Grabowski of LGL Client ‘Polish Airports’ State Enterprise Design
2009 Beginning of construction works 2010
16 452 m2 • 8 floors • 3 undeground levels • 100 basement car spaces •
225 units • Units, floor area from 27 m2 to 68 m2
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HOUSING COMPLEX
THE CORNER OF GRÓJECKA AND BANACHA STREETS
First prize in competition
Location Ochota district Architects JEMS Architekci • Olgierd Jagiełło,
Maciej Miłobędzki, Marcin Sadowski, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski, Paweł
Majkusiak Collaborating architects Anna Świderska, Dariusz Wasak, Marek
Kuciński, Maciek Rydz, Marcin Zaremba, Mariusz Olszewski Client TBS
Praga Południe Design 2009-2010
Total volume: TBS – 67 000 m3, Zieleniak – 20 200 m3 • Total floor area:
TBS – 21 300 m2, Zieleniak – 6 400 m2 • Usable floor area: TBS – 12 500 m2,
Zieleniak – 3 000 m2 • Total floor area of units: TBS – 10 500 m2 (32 m2
– 80 m2) • from 2 to 11 floors • 2 undeground levels • 20 surface car
spaces and basement car spaces – TBS - 200, Zieleniak – 84 • 200 units
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GRÓJECKA STREET ELEVATION
HOUSING COMPLEX
Second prize in competition
The designed building will preserve the commercial in-style character of the
investment. On the one hand, the commercial retail units will be located on the
ground floor of the designed plaza and on the other hand in the passage running
along the Grójecka St. Cars would stay on the ground level but pedestrian communication will be moved under the ground. The construction of the pedestrian
underpass will provide the proper circulation and will bring an additional space
for the commercial retail units. It will result in an attractive public space separated from the traffic. We have proposed a similar plaza on the other side of the
Grójecka St. It will be also connected with the pedestrian underpasses network.
Through both squares the foot-path runs connecting the park at the Opaczewska
St. with the Banacha St. and the Pole Mokotowskie Park.
The designed square and the new mixed-use residential complex create ‘City
Gate’.
The ground plaza with the floor made of light-grey stone slabs creates a background for the row of dynamic sculptures made of black stone, contrasting with
the simplicity of the rest of the complex. The water will flow down the middle part
of the sculpture and the rest of it will be partly covered with the greenery. To avoid
a visual competition with the old tree and Barykada Września (September 1939
Barricade) monument no new small architecture have been anticipated on the
street level.
Location Ochota district Architects BROADWAY MALYAN POLSKA • Paul
Ayre, Antoni Konarski, Piotr Macura, Krzysztof Mirosławski, Dominik
Kaczmarek, Rafał Boguszewski – architecture student Design 2009
commercial retail units – 2 000 m2, residential units – 10 000 m2 (from
32 m2 to 60 m2) • 11 floors • 3 undeground levels • 270 basement car
spaces
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HOUSING COMPLEX
Third prize in competition
Location Ochota district Architects em JEDNACZ Architekci • Mirosław
Jednacz, Marek Malanowski, Paweł Słupiański, Grażyna Bednarczyk
Collaborating architects Monika Bahonko, Mariusz Sułek Client TBS Praga
Południe Design 2009
24 300 m2 • Units, total floor area: 10 518 m2 (34 m2 – 60 m2) • 7 floors
• 2 undeground levels • 39 surface car spaces and 231 basement car
spaces • 198 units
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CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
The building will serve as both a hospital and a didactic background for the
Medical University of Warsaw. Each clinic will comprise lecture halls for students.
The basic aim of the project was to create a building that will harmonize with the
flanking building development and the streets network. It will upgrade the standard
of the surroundings; will be medical personnel and patient friendly; will have the
clear spatial layout and will cover the site of the development in the optimal way.
The designed building comprises two closed yards with the access through two
open green passages. This level comprises the large conference room (for 300
people) and the restaurant (floor area – 370 m2). They are connected, through the
hall, with the recreational area on the south side of the complex. It is planned to
build a park covering 3 000 m2 of area, open for patients, medical personnel,
students and guests.
Each clinic and ward comprises the room for parents with the small kitchen and
the bathroom. In each room the folding armchair will be installed for those parents
that would like to stay with their child during the night. Each clinic will have its
own day-room for children.
The hospital will also comprise the school.
Location Banacha Street area, the Medical University of Warsaw Campus,
Ochota district Architects OPEN Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Przemysław Kokot,
Paweł Paradowski, Daniel Mermer, Alicja Kanigowska Collaborating
architects Iwona Filiks, Anna Gorzkowska, Krzysztof Henger, Łukasz
Lautsch, Magdalena Łodygowska, Iwona Neupauer, Magdalena Paprocka,
Małgorzata Pniak, Piotr Skaliński Medical facilities Project by Unimed s.j.
Autorskie Pracownie Projektowe Structural engineers Kuban & Salak
Pracownia Konstrukcji Budowlanych Sp. z o.o. Client the Medical University
of Warsaw Design submitted for competition 2009 Architectural design
2010 Final design 2011
49 000 m2 • 7 floors • 2 undeground levels • 19 surface car spaces and
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CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Honourable mention in competition
The Broadway’s Malyan design for the hospital keeps the urban layout of the
existing clinics. Its 3 new blocks will create the southern extension of the complex.
During the designing process the child point of view has been taken into consideration. It resulted in the extraordinary form of the building.
The hospital’s scale looks variously at different angles and from different distances.
The large notches in the building’s form are clearly visible from afar. Thanks to
that the building loses its real size and become a hard to define piece of the cityscape.
The green loggias provide natural light to the hospital’s corridors and serve as
the rest areas for the medical personnel, students, patients and guests.
The color scheme of the frontages was based on the natural, two-dimension
children’s aesthetics. Such solution breaks building’s ‘architectural gravity’ where frontages are homogeneous for the whole block.
The basic aims for the hospital building project was to provide a proper natural
light, preserve the landscape axes, use the bright, lively colors and the high
quality finishing materials.
The large windows, the transparent loggias in day-care and play rooms, the
Location rejon Banacha Street area, the Medical University of Warsaw
Campus, Ochota district Architects BROADWAY MALYAN POLSKA • Paul
Ayre, Bar tek Kumor, Magdalena Bernacik, Przemysław Sykus, Antoni
Konarski, Dominik Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Mirosławski, Rafał Boguszewski
– architecture student Design 2009
green terraces and the spacious entrance hall are supposed to minimize the feeling of closure, often experienced by
the patients staying in the hospital for a long time.
The transparent bridges, linking blocks, provide optimal circulation and they are perfect observation decks for everyone
in the hospital.
Each patient has an access to the window with the view on the greenery. Thanks to lowered windowsills one can look out
even when lying in bed.
The children’s playgrounds and the rest areas for psychiatric ward patients have been located on the roof tops.
area: 45 985 m2 • 8 floors • 2 undeground levels • 736 car spaces
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EAST ELEVATION
PARTIAL DEAFNESS DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT CENTRE
The new wing of the hospital comprises the modern operating block with post-surgery wards, transparent atrium and science centre.
The ground floor consists of registration and waiting areas, consulting-rooms, outpatients’ clinic,
genetics laboratory, technical facilities and storerooms.
The first floor comprises the operating block with 4 operating tables, changing-rooms, storerooms,
children’s ward and the conference room, where one can watch surgeons at work from.
The second floor houses the science centre, administrative units, ventilation room, storerooms and
the library with reading-room.
The third floor is connected with the second floor of the existing hospital’s part by the slightly sloped
ramp (inclination 6.7%) which provides an easy circulation around the whole hospital’s area.
Location 17 Mokra St, Kajetany near Warsaw Architects Archi-med Sollers
Sp. z o.o. • Michał Grzymała-Kazłowski (PhD), Dariusz Kuljon, Piotr
Gastman, Aleksandra Ruszkowska, Joanna Wachowicz, Joanna Kozielska
– architecture student, Sylwia Pskit – architecture student Structural
engineers Bomar Projekt • Bogusław Stejkowski, Marcin Kraciuk Client
The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw Design
Redevelopment and extention
Total floor area: 8 465,65 m2 • Usable floor area: 7 683 m2 • Atrium, floor
area 600 m2 • 3 floors • 1 undeground level • 175 car spaces in open
multi-level garage
The Centre is an extention to the International Center of Hearing and Speech
of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing building.
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The most important assumption of the project was to create an impression of peace and harmony for people coming to the Cancer
Prevention Centre for periodic tests. Therefore, architects decided to
use only minimal means of expression.
The main body of the building has been designed as a compact glass
form. Except the windows in the consulting rooms and waiting areas,
the rest of façade has been covered with a semi-transparent glass.
It makes the rooms look more spacious and results in the well
lighted, intimate interior. The perception of the building from the
outside has also been well-though-of. Thanks to the transparent
façade it will be well illuminated, especially in the winter when sun
sets early.
To highlight the building’s character architects used light, silvery
colors that contrast with the only one dark element - a roof over the
entrance hall and café.
The one-storey pavilion of the café together with the outpatients’
clinic makes the wholeness and screens the transformer station. The
inner east-south façade is different in-style. It is divided by windows
which size and number is strictly related to the functions of inner
rooms.
CANCER PREVENTION CENTRE
Location Roentgena St., Ursynów district Architects Kuryłowicz &
Associates • Stefan Kuryłowicz, Jacek Syropolski, Magdalena Rostowska
Collaborating architects Wojciech Pachocki, Bartłomiej Sabela Structural
engineers LGL Sp. z o.o. Client Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of the
Oncology Centre, ‘You are not alone’ TVN Foundation General contractor
Narew Styl Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Building under construction
Total volume: 14 547,61 m3 • Total floor area: 3 778,6 m2 • Usable floor area:
3 209,84 m2 • 3 floors • 1 undeground level • 24 surface car spaces
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Architects faced a difficult designing challenge – how to connect
production and warehouse functions with office unit.
As a result two forms came into existence, each different, yet creating the whole. Office unit is the higher part of the building and
its frontage is paralel to the street. It is a traditional structure made
of brick. The lower part comprising production hall and warehouse
is based on the steel structure. Entrance located on the side of the
street.
The building with its sloped roof is similar to the flanking detached
houses. Glass courtain wall highlights the representative character
of the office unit.
MIXED-USE BUILDING
B-B SECTION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location 11a Baletowa St., Ursynów district Architects Archigraf • Michał
Brutkowski, Marek Kiełbiński, Jakub Smolarek
Volume: 1 502.3 m3 • Total usable floor area: 225.1 m2, ground floor –
175.3 m2, first floor – 49.8 m2
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MIXED-USE OFFICE BUILDING
The diversity of the interior and the very small building plot (503 m2) are two determinants affecting the shape of the
building. The block has been designed as a simple form but each storey keeps its own style. It is a result of the building’s
functional layout. The basement was destined for the technical facility rooms; the ground floor consists of studies, and
the upper floors comprise the office space that can be easily transformed into the residential units.
The building covers the site of the investment to the maximum. The basement has been partly uncovered and it resulted in
the natural two-storey restroom. White facades, curtain walls and steel details are emphasizing the building’s aesthetics.
Location Encyklopedyczna St., Młociny Architects GRUPA PLUS • Tomasz
Wuczyński, Michał Kielian, Mateusz Januszewski Client Private owner
General contractor NAREW STYL Design 2009 Completion 2010
Total volume: 2 489 m3 • Total floor area: 711 m2 • Usable floor area:
536 m2 • 3 floors • 1 undeground level • 2 basement car spaces
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REST HOUSE AND CLINIC FOR THE WARSAW JEWISH COMMUNITY
The building consists of two blocks linked by glass corridors. Each of them
comprises different function what is emphasized by the diversity of the
elevation. The main entrance was located in the building alloted for health
care purposes. The latter is screening another block which is a rest house
and is opened onto park, flanking the building on the south and east. The
green yard is a natural buffer between the commercial retail building and the
rest house. The latter comprises rehabilitation rooms in the basement and
the green terrace with orangery on the roof top.
Location Brylowska St., Wola district Architects APA Wojciechowski
Sp. z o.o. • Szymon Wojciechowski, Michał Sadowski, Witold Dudek,
Marcin Grzelewski, Rafał Pamuła, Magda Maciąg, Robert Kucharski Client
Warsaw Jewish Community Design 2009
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EDUCATIONAL, CULTURE AND SPORTS CENTRE
Location Chotomów, Jabłonna commune Architects 90 Architekci s.c.
Czarnecki Willmann • Piotr Czarnecki, Mateusz Willmann, Katarzyna Roman,
Łukasz Katarzyński – architecture student, Arkadiusz Trocewicz, Cezary
Kępka, Andrea Tulisi Structural engineer Jolanta Lenarczyk of LGL Sp. z o.o.
Client Jabłonna Commune Design 2009-2010
Usable floor area: 12 712 m2 including, first stage (school with the central
block and school lunchroom) – 6 646 m2, second stage (junior high school
and sports hall) – 5 119 m2, third stage (community centre) – 947 m2 •
2 floors
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‘HUTNIK WARSZAWA’ SPORTS CLUB SUPPORT FACILITY BUILDING
FLOOR PLAN
Location 42 Marymoncka St., Bielany district Architects PPA – Płaskowicki
i Partnerzy Architekci • Piotr Płaskowicki, Paweł Załęski – architecture
student Client Warszawski Ośrodek Spor tu i Rekreacji Design 2010
Completion 2010
Total volume: 1 275,78 m3 • Total floor area: 517,98 m2 • Usable floor area:
418,29 m2 • 1 floor • 56 surface car spaces
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A concrete bar code saying ‘Biblioteka – Piaseczno’
(Library – Piaseczno) have been mounted on the outer
walls surface. The building comprises concert hall with
408 seats, amphitheatre with 528 seats, banquet hall for
270 people, café.
DISTRICT LIBRARY
SECTION B-B
Location 20 Chyliczkowska St., Piaseczno Architects Studio Architektury
Format • Adam Gorczyca (PhD), Magdalena Gorczyca Collaboration
(concept phase – model) Krzysztof Filiński – student Structural engineers
KOMPAGO s.c. • Krzysztof Orsicz Kopta, Rafał Znamirowski Client Piaseczno
County Office Design 2009/2010
5 538,75 m2 • 3 floors + boiler room level • 2 undeground levels •
87 surface car spaces and 37 basement car spaces
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‘A preschool is a place of children’s intensive growth. For them
every new day brings new experiences and has an impact on their
future. Our building was designed in a way stimulating child’s
imagination and creative activities. The building’s style resembles
floral forms. It needs to be a playground stimulating children’s own
creativity. This preschool is exceptional in the Warsaw’s scale
because of its integrational character. All new rooms meet the
needs of disabled children.’
INTEGRATIONAL PRESCHOOL NO 226 BUILDING’S EXTENSION
WEST ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
Location 17 Strumykowa St., Białołęka district Architect Andrzej
Staniszewski of Linepure Client Białołęka District of the City of Warsaw
Total volume: 6 010.86 m3 • Total floor area: 1 689 m2 • Usable floor area:
1 277.5 m2 • 1 level • 18 surface car spaces
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PRESCHOOL
The project was based on the concept of the modern, user friendly building with
large two-level garden. The building has a clear layout with easy circulation what
strengthens interactions between all users.
Location Przasnyska St., Rydygiera St. area, Żoliborz district Architects
mąka.sojka.architekci • Radosław Sojka, Maciej Mąka, Paweł Pyłka (project
supervisor), Mariusz Komraus, Piotr Straszak Client Żoliborz District of the
City of Warsaw Design 2009 Completion 2010
Volume: 10 461 m 3 • Total floor area: 2 776 m 2 • Usable floor area:
2 033 m2 • 10 surface car spaces
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‘MULTICENTRUM’ PIASKI HOUSING ESTATE’S COMMUNITY CENTRE
The Multicentrum idea is perfectly depicted by its logo. It is a sign clearly associated with the computer processor, the
core, which brings together 12 different fields of the science and art, and that is where the symbolic meaning of 12 elements comes from. It is announcing the idea of centre and building the impression of motion.
The whole building is transparent and invites passers-by to step in. Its interior is a part of elevation and both make the one
dynamic form.
The building associates with modern technologies. It is a didactic institution, which will be an important element of the
cityscape.
All architectural and structural details are clearly visible from the outside and it makes this building a kind of the open-air
lesson of modern architecture.
The building’s architectural ID is 4 red painted forms inserted into it, going
through the whole building from the ground floor to the roof top.
Architects accepted the rule of 3 routes – the didactic, which is the main one; it
is located on the Magiera St. side. The middle one is marked out by 3 red forms,
the entrances to individual units have been located between them. The circulation
path on the southern side of the building consists of gallery running along the
red form and one-way staircase running along the elevation.
Elevations are made of steel wire netting with evergreen creepers. The technological, simple building structure is in contrast with the organic curvatures of
plants. Greenery functions: symbolic – it symbolizes the coexistence of man and
natural environment; psychological – a green, natural layer, it provides a positive
impact on psyche and mood; aesthetic – ‘softens’ the steel-industrial-style of
elevations, a natural light penetrating the building makes the interesting visual
effects; technical – creepers on the south elevation noticeable reduce the glass
elevation warming.
In the designed building the most important is the modern educational programme.
Location the corner of Jarzębskiego and Magiera St., Bielany district
Architects 4am Architekci s.c. • Tomasz Karpiński, Małgorzata Krukowska,
Arkadiusz Wróblewski, Ewelina Wojciechowska, Aleksandra Sawicka
Collaboration Marcin Chomicki Structural engineer Paweł Przybysz Client
Bielany District of the City of Warsaw Design 2010 Completion 2011
1 400 m2 • floors • 1 undeground level • 30 basement car spaces
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The designed building is located in the area of small housing estate drowned
in the greenery. It is displayed from the side of the Jarzębskiego St., which
is the main public space of the Bielany district. The architectural form of the
building was based on the characteristic features of the surrounding area,
building’s functions and programme.
Representative and cameral building: a simple, monumental form with the
entrance located deep in the arcade and the characteristic local architectural dominant over the building’s corner.
Form and function: the building’s form emphasizes basic elements of the
Community Center programme - the Multicentre and 4 studios.
Similarity and dissimilarity: the building’s ‘core’ is similar to the flanking
buildings; its dissimilarity is highlighted by the ‘green pavilion’ on the ground
floor, the bay window on the second floor; the elevation – a ‘sign’ emphasizing the Community Centre functions.
Architecture and greenery: the green roof top above the ground floor and
creepers on the walls emphasizes the green character of the housing estate
and symbolize the balanced relationship between the culture, technology and
natural environment.
Location the corner of Jarzębskiego and Magiera St., Bielany district
Architects STANISZKIS-ARCHITEKT Magdalena Staniszkis • Magdalena
Staniszkis, Marta Malewska Collaborating architect Michał Taras Client
Bielany District of the City of Warsaw Design 2009
PIASKI HOUSING ESTATE’S COMMUNITY CENTRE
Second prize in competition
A-A SECTION
Total volume: 9 368 m3, floors – 6 361 m3 Total floor area: 2 390 m2, floors
– 1 542 m2 • Usable floor area: 1 963 m2, floors – 1 217 m2 • 3 floors •
1 undeground level • 21 basement car spaces
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The zones in the building have been divided as follows:
ENTERTAINMENT ZONE – 1st and 2nd storey comprising
concert hall (f260 seats), small concert hall and café.
WORK ZONE – 3rd storey comprising studios with internal
garden, lecture hall, recording studio, puppet theatre.
SPORT ZONE – 4th storey comprising bowling alley,
dance hall, sports halls.
The elevation on the Rzymowskiego St. side was made
of movable panels, which can be ‘sculpted’ by artists.
‘KADR’ COMMUNITY CENTRE
Location 32 Rzymowskiego St., Mokotów district Architects Projekt
Samograj sp.j. • Małgorzata Dąbrowska, Tomasz Graj, Nina Ślusarska •
Uni Sp. z o.o. • Mikołaj Rek Collaboration Wiktor Jarawka, Łukasz
Mazurkiewicz – architecture student, Aneta Dudek – architecture student,
Tomasz Bieniek Client Mokotów District of the City of Warsaw Design 2010-11
Completion 2012
3 100 m2 • 4 floors • 1 undeground level • 52 basement car spaces
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The site of investment is the old garden of the Piarist order
monastery delimited by Miodowa, Podwale and Długa
Streets.
Today this area has partly arranged greenery, but the most
of its surface is covered with the asphalt concrete and is
utilised as a sports field by the adjoining music school. On
the south-west, the building plot borders with the Collegium
Nobilium Theatre – Small Scene of the State Theatre Academy. The access to the Podwale Street is closed by residential buildings.
The new building plan covers the central part of the building
plot. The first underground level is the main usable floor
area of a building. Its core comprises the mixed-use hall,
which will be used for sport or theatre purposes. The shallow bays in the hall’s walls comprise the elements of a
movable, automatic platform with seats. The lobby was
located behind the latter. The backstage and decorations
warehouse are located next to the stage.
The central part of the first floor was assigned for stage
technical facilities and hanged above it: catwalks, footlights,
acoustic panels and plafonds, fly rail.
The top floor comprises the dressing-rooms connected with
stage by lavatories, the club with snack-bar and the small
stage.
We want the new building to become a clear, optimistic
sign, easy to distinguish from the flanking building development by its form and color scheme. It has to fit to the neighbouring, partly historic buildings and has to have the artistic façade. To achieve it we suggest covering the building’s
elevations with copper sheet, oxidized in gold color. The
oxidized copper should also be used as a material for the
open work window shutters.
EXTENSION OF THE BUILDING OF THE ALEKSANDRA ZELWEROWICZA
STATE THEATRE ACADEMY
The mixed-use hall has 3 main functions: the sports hall; the theatre –the main telescopic platform with seats is unfolded, courtains,
backcloths and side flats go down from the fly rail; the assembly
hall – unfolded 3 platforms with seats, in this configuration surrounding the stage, behind them - backstage enabling the transport
of the equipment necessary to hold concert, conference, etc.
THEATRE
Location 22 Miodowa St., Old Town Architects Are Sp. z o.o. • Jakub
Wacławek, Grzegorz Stiasny Collaborating architects Iza Bartosik, Jacek
Michalak, Olga Parys, Rita Nowak – architecture student, Adam Kluczek
Client Aleksandra Zelwerowicza State Theatre Academy Design 2009
Total volume: 25 711.29 m3 • Total floor area: 5 516.13 m2 • Usable floor
area: 4 764.63 m2 • 3 floors • 2 undeground levels • 57 basement car
spaces
GYMNASIUM
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The Elizeum (Elysium) Pavilion is a fragment, a remnant of the historic park and the palace complex called
‘Na Książęcem’ (Duke’s Own). The complex designed by Szymon Bogumił Zug, belonged to Duke Kazimierz Poniatowski and it was completed in the late 18th century.
Basic aims of the project: the preservation and the restoration of the historic spatial layout; the creation of
the distinctive spaces: Grota (Cave), narrow and dark corridors, and the illuminated temple.
The surprise and mystery present in the historic pavilion were treated as a highest value and were the
central point that today’s spatial arrangement has been worked out around.
The cave’s entrance axis was removed from the Lantern’s axis on purpose not to associate it with the Elysium entrance. The Elysium will stay as it is now, it will not be restored.
The area around the Elysium and the Cave will be changed only a little and will preserve its historic layout
almost unchanged.
This area shall be a public space – an auditorium of the natural amphitheatre.
Modern architectural forms as the Entrance, Lantern, Cave’s interior arrangement or the Elysium floor were
highlighted by a non-historic material on purpose.
In the new public space the cultural events will be held.
ELIZEUM (ELYSIUM) EXHIBITION PAVILION
Renovation and extension of the historic building
Location Książęca and Kruczkowskiego Streets ares, Powiśle Park,
Śródmieście ditrict Architects JEMS Architekci • Olgierd Jagiełło, Maciej
Miłobędzki, Marcin Sadowski, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski Collaborating
architects Łukasz Kuciński, Michał Ożóg, Piotr Waleszkiewicz Structural
engineer Marek Kapela Client the City of Warsaw, Infrastructure Department;
Heritage Preservation Department Design 2009
Usable floor area: 400 m2, historic part – 200 m2, modern part – 200 m2 •
1 undeground level
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The designed building was located nearby the Krakowskie Przedmiście St., on the Karowa St, which runs down to
the river. While working out the architectural concept architects tried to refer to the shape and aesthetics of the ‘Dom
bez kantów’ (House without the Corners) designed by Czesław Przybylski, Dom Funduszu Kwaterunku Wojskowego (Army Housing Department Building), Hotel Bristol by Władysław Marconi and to the Polskie Towarzystwo Higieniczne (Polish Hygienic Society) building by Jan Henrich located on the other side of the street.
The new tenement house by its height refers to the 14/16 Karowa St. building. The frontage of the street has been
preserved. The 6 meters difference between the levels of ground was used to create a large gate. The driveway to
both, new buildings underground parking garage and neighbouring building garage runs through that gate. Architects
put the emphasis on the quality of architectural details and the high quality of finishing materials.
MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Location Karowa St., Śródmieście district Architects PROART Pracownia
Architektoniczno-Konserwatorska ANNA ROSTKOWSKA • Anna Rostkowska,
Małgorzata Połeć, Michał Redłowski Client Private owner Design 2009
Completion 2012
Total volume: 12 120 m3 • Total floor area: 4 040 m2, offices – 265 m2 •
7 floors • 2 undeground levels • 6 apartments: 300 m2 • 2 apartments:
600 m2 • 55 car spaces
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Location 6 Górskiego St., Śródmieście district Architects PRC Architekci
Sp. z o.o. • Andrzej Jurkiewicz, Andrzej Michalik, Igor Galas Collaborating
architects Agata Żak, Piotr Migdalski, Bar tłomiej Chwalczyk, Lena
Szydłowska, Stefan Lennon, Magdalena Pasternak, Michał Pająkiewicz,
Marek Średziński Client Restaura Górskiego Structural engineers Rybcent
Sp. z o.o. Design 2006 Completion 2010
14 040 m2 • 8 floors • 2 undeground levels • 127 car spaces • 110 units
• Units, floor area from 52 m2 to 165 m2
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The Saska Housing Estate is located on Bora-Komorowskiego Street in the vicinity of Jeziorko Gocławskie (Gocławskie
Lake). This housing estate contains collection of buildings
diverse in form with carefully designed architectural details.
The public space with high quality commercial retail units
is flanked by private yards and carefully-designed park,
which will become the heart of the complex.
SASKA HOUSING ESTATE
First phase
Location generała T. Bora-Komorowskiego St., Praga Południe district
Architects Hermanowicz Rewski Architekci sp.j. • Wojciech Hermanowicz,
Stanisław Rewski, Błażej Hermanowicz, Paweł Maciążek (project supervisor),
Krzysztof Toczyski, Anna Czyżewska, Dariusz Brzeziński, Mariusz Rakus,
Dorota Brzezińska, Łukasz Wyczółkowski, Ewa Kowalska, Lidia Kosewska,
Michał Badowski, Beata Kamińska Structural engineers TMJ Projekt Client
Dom Development S.A. Design 2009 Completion 2009 -2013
Total volume: 129 500 m3 • Total floor area: 47 961 m2 • Units, total floor
area: 30 600 m 2 (from 35 m 2 to 125 m 2) • from 7 to 14 Floors •
2 undeground levels • 18 surface car spaces and 566 basement car spaces
• 470 units
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Second phase
Location Gen. T. Bora-Komorowskiego Street area, Praga Południe district
Witold Wyczański (project supervisor), Mariusz Rakus, Jakub Berenson,
Bartłomiej Witczak, Tomasz Midura, Dariusz Brzeziński Structural engineers
TMJ Projekt Client Dom Development S.A. Design 2009-2010 Completion
2010 -2013
Total volume: 119 800 m3 • Usable floor area: 44 300 m2 • Units, total floor
area: 25 359 m 2 (from 35 m 2 to 125 m 2) • from 7 to 14 floors •
• 443 units
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Third phase
Location Gen. T. Bora-Komorowskiego Street area, Praga Południe district
Dariusz Kurowski (project supervisor), Mariusz Rakus, Joanna WąsowskaPalimąka, Maksymilian Ziółkowski, Anna Wójtowicz, Anna Czyżewska,
Michał Badowski, Dariusz Brzeziński Structural engineers TMJ Projekt
Client Dom Development S.A. Design 2009-2010 Completion 2010 -2013
area: 37 575 m 2 (from 35 m 2 to 125 m 2) • from 7 to 14 floors •
• 671 units
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
‘LIBRETTO’ HOUSING ESTATE
The basic aim of the project was preserving the green character of the site of investment. The housing estate was divided
into individual buildings and the parking garage was elevated to hide all routes. It resulted in ‘green deck’, which covers
all routes and driveways and at the same time creates additional recreational areas.
Location Praga Południe district Architects Grupa 5 Sp. z o.o. • Roman
Dziedziejko, Mikołaj Kadłubowski, Michał Leszczyński, Krzysztof Mycielski,
Rafał Zelent, Anna Frączkowska, Elżbieta Fojut-Gajewska, Kacper
Gronkiewicz, Ula Koźmińska, Rafał Stefanowski Client Special-Purpose
Vehicle of Raiffeisen Evolution Group Design 2009
area: 10 242,65 m2 • Units, floor area: 9 971,22 m2 (from 28,36 m2 –
147 m2) • from 6 to 8 floors • 2 undeground levels • 179 basement car
spaces • 146 units
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS COMPLEX
Location Mickiewicza and Rudzka Streets Bielany district Architects mąka.
sojka.architekci • Radosław Sojka, Maciej Mąka, Paweł Pyłka (project
supervisor), Jakub Kalinowski, Piotr Straszak Structural engineers TMJ
Projekt Client Restaura Mickiewicza Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion
2010
Buildings A, B and C – residential area
area: 16 842 m 2 • Units, total floor area: 16 540 m 2 • 7 floors •
2 undeground levels • 224 units
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MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS COMPLEX
Location Rydygiera, Burakowska, Przasnyska Streets, Żoliborz district
Architects mąka.sojka.architekci • Maciej Mąka, Radosław Sojka, Łukasz
Stanaszek (project supervisor), Radosław Bajor, Katarzyna Biała, Agnieszka
Kaszczewska, Magdalena Kuleczko, Natalia Regulska, Mikołaj Zdanowski
Collaborating architects Karol Furman, Jakub Kalinowski, Marcin Ludwig,
Joanna Longa, Grzegorz Madejski, Grzegorz Pyzikiewicz, Adam Załęski
Structural engineers TMJ Projekt Client Ruscus Sp. z o.o. Design
2008/2009 Completion 2010
area: 57 000 m2 • Units, total floor area: 53 000 m2 • from 7 to 9 floors •
1 undeground level • 1 010 basement car spaces • 703 units
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Location Cynamonowa St., Ursynów district Architects S.A.M.I. ARCHITEKCI
Mariusz Lewandowski i Wspólnicy Sp. z o.o. • Mariusz Lewandowski (head
designer), Anna Albiniak (head designer) Collaborating architects Jarosław
Ptaszyński, Paweł Ptaszyński, Aneta Wardzińska, Justyna DuszyńskaKrawczyk, Marcin Pajura Structural engineer Rafał Dziubiński of MARD
Client Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa „Na skraju” Design 2010 Completion
2012
Total volume: 91 500 m3 • Total floor area: 29 800 m2 • Units, usable floor
area: 13 500 m2 (from 42,5 m2 to 85 m2) • Commercial retail units, usable
floor area: 1 500 m2 • Underground garage, usable floor area: 14 800 m2
• 11 floors • 2 undeground levels • an underground parking garage for
501 cars • 40 surface car spaces • 248 units
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Location Ćmielowska St., Białołęka district Architects S.A.M.I. ARCHITEKCI
Mariusz Lewandowski i Wspólnicy Sp. z o.o. • Mariusz Lewandowski (head
designer), Anna Albiniak (head designer) Collaborating architects Jarosław
Ptaszyński, Paweł Ptaszyński, Aneta Wardzińska, Marcin Pajura Structural
engineer Rafał Dziubiński of MARD Client SABE INVESTMENTS Sp. z o.o.
Total volume: 51 500 m3 • Overground stores, total floor area: 10 700 m2
• Units, usable floor area: 7 411 m2 (from 42,5 m2 to 75,2 m2) • Commercial
retail units, floor area: 151 m2 • Underground garage, usable floor area:
4 050,4 m2 • 7 floors • 1 undeground level• an underground parking garage
for 135 • 116 units
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Location Pełczyńskiego St., Bemowo district Architects APA Markowski
Architekci • Andrzej Markowski, Łukasz Krukowski, Leszek Włochyński,
Grzegorz Perguł – student, Agnieszka Kałun, Mariusz Michalski Structural
engineers PQS – PIKUS Konstrukcje Budowlane Client Decoma Invest
Design 2010
Total volume: approx. 45 000 m3 • Total floor area: approx. 15 000 m2 •
Usable floor area: 9 450 m2 • Units, total floor area: 8 870 m2 (from 26 m2
to 120 m2) • 9 floors • 1 undeground level • 38 surface car spaces and
120 basement car spaces • 148 units
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The building consists of two blocks; four-storey one with flat roof and three-storey with
gable roof. The lower block adjoins neighbouring building. The site of investment is
surrounded by wall with open work spans. Main entrance and driveway located on the
Nastrojowa St. side. An underground parking garage equipped with signalling system.
SPLIT-LEVEL FLAT
SECOND LEVEL
‘WILLA NASTROJOWA’ MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Location between Nastrojowa and Potrzebna Streets, Włochy district
Architects APA Markowski Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Andrzej Markowski,
Łukasz Krukowski, Agnieszka Kałun, Leszek Włochyński, Agnieszka
Bednarska Structural engineers Tomasz Klimczak, Waldemar Sałuda Clients
Invesco House Partners s.c. • Sebastian Jóźwiak, Maciej Poniatowicz,
Małgorzata Poniatowicz, Tomasz Poniatowicz General contractor HOCHBUD
Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion 2011
1 242,8 m2 • Units, floor area: 728,7 m2 (from 38 m2 to 104 m2) • 4 floors
• 1 undeground level • 1 surface car space and 13 basement car spaces
• 13 units
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The residential units located on floors from 2nd to 9th. The building comprises
commercial retail units on the ground floor and two-level underground parking
garage.
Location 96 Wolska St., Wola district Architects TOP DEVELOPMENT Sp.
z o.o. • Anna Rydzewska-Szpak • PRACOWNIA PROJEKTOWA Client
„SPOŁEM” Warszawska Spółdzielnia Spożywców Wola Design 2009
Total volume: 33 027,8 m3 • Total floor area: 10 955 m2 • Usable floor area:
4 905,4 m2, units – 4 407 m2 (from 29,8 m2 to 141,8 m2), commercial retail
units – 498,4 m2 • 9 floors • 2 undeground levels • 9 surface car spaces
and 80 basement car spaces • 71 units
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TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
Location Kłobucka St., Ursynów district Architects CK Architekci sp.j. •
Arkadiusz Klepin, Mariusz Chrzanowski, Michał Burkiewicz, Paweł Fras,
Marcin Tatucha Structural engineer Jarosław Kołton Client Private owner
Design 2010 Completion 2010-2011
8 235 m2 • Units, total floor area: 8 220 m2 (from 32 m2 to 107 m2) • from
7 to 11 floors • 1 undeground level • 23 surface car spaces and
141 basement car spaces • 136 units
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MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS COMPLEX AND OFFICE BUILDING
NORTH ELEVATION
Location Magazynowa St., Mokotów district Architects CK Architekci sp.j.
• Arkadiusz Klepin, Mariusz Chrzanowski, Marcin Tatucha Collaborating
architect Jarosław Kołton Client Private owner Design 2009 Completion
2010-2011
21 500 m2, units, floor area – 17 100 m2 (from 35 m2 to 91 m2), usługi –
1 200 m2, biura – 3 200 m2 • from 7 from 9 floors • 2 undeground levels
• 18 surface car spaces and 420 basement car spaces, including 30 for
commercial retail units, 70 for offices • 315 units
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FLOOR PLAN
Location 35 Sienna St., Wola district Architects ATELIER 3
GIRTLER&GIRTLER Biuro Architektoniczne s.c. • Marta Girtler-Szymborska,
Monika Cykier Collaboration Tomasz Waszczuk – architecture student,
Aleksandra Szlachcic – interior architect Structural engineer Robert Łopat
of P.U.P. „PLAN” Client Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa „Starówka” Design
2008/2009 Completion 2010
Total volume: 45 507.4 m3 • Total floor area: 13 759.3 m2 • Usable floor
area: 6 308.2 m2 • Units, total floor area: 4 352.2 m2 (from 37.3 m2 to
148.1 m2) • 9 floors • 2 undeground levels • 72 basement car spaces •
62 units • 6 commercial retail units • 14 office units
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MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
FRONT ELEVATION
Location Powstańców St., Ząbki Architects CK Architekci sp.j. • Mariusz
Chrzanowski, Arkadiusz Klepin, Marcin Tatucha Structural engineer Jarosław
Kołton Client Private owner Design 2009 Completion 2010-2011
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
21 425 m2 • from 4 to 6 floors • 1 undeground level • 7 surface car spaces
and 471 basement car spaces • 354 units • Units, floor area from 30 m2
to 98 m2
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EAST ELEVATION
Location Husarska St., Legionowo Architects Pracownia architektoniczna
DESEA • Adam Pszczółkowski, Justyna Szablińska, Bartosz Czarnecki
Structural engineers B.P.U. FORMAT Client P.B. LEG-BUD sp.j. Design 2009
3 920 m2 • Units, total floor area: 3 699 m2 (from 49,08 m2 to 92,28 m2) •
from 8 to 9 floors • 1 undeground level • 96 car spaces • 60 units
NORTH ELEVATION
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
Location Krańcowa St., Włochy district Architects APA Wojciechowski
Marcin Grzelewski, Katarzyna Alagierska, Karolina Cegiełkowska, Marek
Mieszkowski, Rafał Pamuła, Anna Wesołowska, Monika Wrzeszcz
Collaborating architects Diana Bracławska – architecture student, Klara
Janicka, Szymon Mioduszewski, Magdalena Rachuta, Michał Uchwat Client
Radius Sp. z o.o. Design 2010 Completion 2010-2012
31 867 m2 • Units, total floor area:16 829 m2 (from 32 m2 to 72 m2) •
8 floors • 1 undeground level • 298 basement car spaces • 291 units
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Location Karolkowa St., Wola district Architects APA Wojciechowski
Marcin Grzelewski, Karolina Cegiełkowska, Aleksandra Kuncewicz, Rafał
Pamuła, Anna Wesołowska Collaborating architects Lina Maria Varela
Machado, Piotr Zielawski Client Palma Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion
2011
Total volume: ca 18 000 m 3 • Total floor area: floors – ca 6 000 m 2,
undeground levels – ca 3 100 m2 • Usable floor area: floors – ca 5 370 m2,
undeground levels – ca 2 650 m2 • Units, total floor area: ca 4 100 m2 (from
34 m2 to 122 m2) • 5 floors • 3 undeground levels • 70 basement car
spaces • 61 units
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LOW-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
GROUND FLOOR
Location Zacisze Architect Damian Cyryl Kotwicki Structural engineers
KAPPA-PROJEKT Client IN-WAR Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion 20102011
713 m2 • Units, total floor area: 490 m2 (from 95 m2 to 170 m2) • 3 floors
• 1 undeground level • 6 basement car spaces • 4 units
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HOUSING ESTATE
Location Bartycka and Bluszczańska St., Mokotów district Architects
Hermanowicz Rewski Architekci sp.j. • Wojciech Hermanowicz, Błażej
Hermanowicz, Stanisław Rewski, Baltazar Brukalski, Dariusz Brzeziński
Client SGI Design 2009
10 300 m2 • Units, total floor area: 10 300 m2 (from 40 m2 to 83 m2) •
3 floors • 1 undeground level • 148 basement car spaces • 148 units
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TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
Location BernardyńskA St. area, Mokotów district Architects Britt-Plan Sp.
z o.o. • Michał Jaworski (head designer) Edyta Waleczek, Dominik Chmura,
Marta Paprocka, Monika Wiater, Paweł Światłowski Client MARVIPOL
Sp. z o.o. General contractor EIFFAGE BUDOWNICTWO MITEX S.A.
Total volume: 66 363 m3 • Total floor area: floors – 12 744,7 m2, undeground
levels – 7 375,6 m2 • Usable floor area: 17 979,2 m2 • Units, total floor
area: 9 092,6 m2 (from 40 m2 to 120 m2) • from 4 to 6 floors • 4 undeground
levels • 192 car spaces • 134 units
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An energy saving building; walls made of thermal insulation
materials; commercial retail units equipped with three-layer
glass windows, solar panels for water heating; rain-water recuperation system.
Location Klimczaka St., Wilanów district Architects ATELIER 3
GIRTLER&GIRTLER Biuro Architektoniczne s.c. • Marta Girtler-Szymborska,
Wojciech Wierzbicki, Łukasz Kozioł Collaborating architects Małgorzata
Gilarska, Maciej Nowak, Justyna Soszyńska, Anna Obłąkowska – student
Structural engineer Witold Rybiński of Rybcent Client Robyg Development
Sp. z o.o. Design 2009/2010 Completion 2011
20 100 m2 • Units, floor area: 15 900 m2 (from 33.5 m2 to 154 m2) •
Commercial retail units, floor area: 1 600 m2 • 5 floors • 1 undeground level
• 32 surface car spaces and 353 basement car spaces • 218 units •
11 commercial retail units
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FLOOR PLAN
Location 25 Serocka St., Praga Południe district Architects GRUPA AT
Sp. z o.o. • Krzysztof Tryboń, Krystyna Anna Tryboń, Ewa Wierucka-Lipka,
Robert Ogrodnik, Rafał Godlewski Structural engineer Piotr Cichowlas
Client Tryboń PPI Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion 2010/2011
Total volume: ca. 5 300 m3 • Total floor area: 2 247 m2 • Units usable floor
area: 1 015,7 m2 (from 40,3 m2 to 96,5 m2) • 5 floors • 1 podziemna •
4 surface car spaces and 16 basement car spaces • 18 units
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FLOOR PLAN
Location 6 Dubieńska St., Praga Południe district Architects GRUPA AT
Sp. z o.o. • Krzysztof Tryboń, Krystyna Anna Tryboń, Ewa Wierucka-Lipka,
Mirosława Karoń, Agnieszka Zawadzka Structural engineer Piotr
Cichowlas Client Tryboń PPI Sp. z o.o. Design 2009 Completion
2011/2012
747 m2, including, units – 355 m 2 (from 45 m2 to 85 m2), commercial
retail unit – 15 m2 • 4 floors • 1 undeground level • 8 basement car
spaces • 6 units
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‘The basic idea of the project was the integration a multi-unit
residential building with the characteristic urban and architectural
layout of the Stary Mokotów (Old Mokotów) area.
Architects tried to preserve the style of Krasickiego St. which comprises city residences frontages. Refering to the historic context of
the neighbourhood was essential. We have introduced the classic
composition of stone elevations and proper proportions, with the
use of modern technical solutions.
The designed building is cuboidal in form with the regular layout
of windows. The cohesive outer structure is in contrast with the
white staircase which is the internal backbone of the building. A
skylight, integrated with the interior of the shared space of building,
provides a natural light to the staircase. The arcade on the ground
floor highlights the building’s main entrance, which is clearly
linked with the stone made site’s entrance gate.
The east and west frontages comprise the terraces and glass box
balconies while the south and north ones are defined by the regular rows of porte-fenêtres (French windows). The proper amount
of natural light is secured by the optimal distances between our
building and flanking ones.’
MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
Location 10 Krasickiego ST., Mokotów Architects Jasiński Kruszewski
Architekci • Mariusz Jasiński, Romuald Kruszewski Collaborating architects
Adam Łabędź, Konrad Żaglewski Client Villa Krasickiego 10 Sp. z o.o.
Total volume: 5 080.4 m3 • Total floor area: 2 075.85 m2 • Units, floor area:
807.88 m2 (from 70 m2 to 150 m2) • 3 floors • 1 undeground level • 14 car
spaces • 7 units
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In Piaseczno, the Puławska’s Street area urban layout is completely
chaotic. Detached houses of all types are neighbouring the multi-unit,
five-storey residential blocks. The pre-war, low-rise building development is consequently replaced by the modern, mixed-use residential
buildings. The Piaseczno’s new architecture mostly invokes to the19th
century models of the bourgeois tenement houses.
Our design, despite a characteristic form and scale, is the modern
interpretation of the last century tenement house. Typical for the latter,
a regular layout for windows was overcome in our building by the
shifting windows on the subsequent floors. Parts of the elevation
without windows are supposed to highlight the corner of the building.
Used by us, means of architectural expression resulted in a modest
elegance. The top floor on the Młynarska St. has been shifted back to
make the building look smaller in comparison to the adjacent one.
The building’s height is 14 meters.
Location 24 Puławska St., Piaseczno Architects PDV Architekci •
Przemysław Wielądek, Jacek Ciećwierz, Rober t Grabarek Structural
engineer Adam Heliosz Client Private owner General contractor ALISMA
CONSTRUCTION S.A. Design 2009 Completion 2010
1 249 m2 • Units, floor area: 623 m2 (from 200 m2 to 215 m2) • 4 floors •
1 undeground level • 8 surface car spaces • 3 units
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A cosy, high standard building. Flat roof with garden covering 24 square meters in area. Commercial retail unit located on the ground floor. All apartments equipped with air conditioning
system.
FLOOR PLAN
Location 45 Wielicka St., Mokotów district Architects Hernan Gomez,
Rober t Wasążnik, Piotr Sierputowski, Joanna Brzezińska Structural
engineers Arnold Prasalski, Wojciech Nikoniuk Client Private owner Design
2010
Total volume: 5 734.4 m3 • Total floor area: 2 342.6 m2 • Usable floor area:
1 920.69 m2 • Units, floor area: approx. 1 200 m2 (from 118 m2 to 235 m2)
• 6 floors • 1 undeground level • 12 basement car spaces • 6 units
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
‘APARTAMENTY PODCHORÑ˚YCH 89’ RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Location 89 Podchorążych St., Mokotów district Architects 4am
Architekci s.c. • Tomasz Karpiński, Małgorzata Krukowska, Arkadiusz
Wróblewski Client Apartamenty Podchorążych 89 Sp. z o.o. Design 2009
Completion 2011
905 m2 • Units, total floor area: 656 m2 (from 100 m2 to 142 m2) • 5 floors
• 1 undeground level • 10 basement car spaces • 5 units
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The building comprises 2 split-level flats and the green roof. South elevation
consists of ‘cubistic’ glass boxes with terraces; east and west elevation – bay
windows; remained surface covered with stone slabs.
FLOOR PLAN
Location 12 Bełska St., Mokotów district Architects Konrad Chmielewski,
Jacek Marzan Collaborating architect Monika Kościelniak Structural
engineers KIP • Piotr Kapela, Piotr Pachowski Client Janusz Marcinek
Design 2009-2010 Completion 2010
1 650 m2 • 5 floors • 1 undeground level • 18 basement car spaces •
12 units • Units, floor area from 48 m2 to 150 m2
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TYPICAL UNIT
SOUTH-WEST ELEVATION
Location 18 Krypska St., Praga Południe district Architects JP s.c Jakub
Szatkowski Paweł Zawadzki • Jakub Szatkowski, Paweł Zawadzki Structural
engineer Piotr Cichowlas Client KRYPSKA Sp. z o.o. Design 2010
Completion 2011
Volume: 5 515.5 m 3 • Total floor area: 2 345 m 2 • Usable floor area:
1 694.2 m2 • Units, total floor area: 1 106,3 m2 (from 37,3 m2 to 113 m2)
• 5 floors • 1 undeground level • 6 surface car spaces and 16 basement
car spaces • 20 units
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NORTH ELEVATION
Location 44 Lirowa St., Ochota district Architects HTT Sp. z o.o. • Zygmunt
Hofman, Wojciech Rąbalski Structural engineer Tomasz Paweł Skowron
Client Lirowa Development Sp. z o.o. Sp. komandytowa Design 2008
area: 1 726 m2 (from 67.75 m2 to 147.77 m2) • 4 floors • 2 undeground
levels • 29 basement car spaces • 17 units
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BUILDING C
WEST ELEVATION
Location Pustułeczki St., Ursynów district Architects Szcześniak – Denier
Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Marek Szcześniak, Urszula Jurzysta, Nina Wójcicka,
Marcin Nawrocki, Eliza Kowalczyk, Adam Ankiewicz, Krzysztof Puta
Structural engineers Rafał Dziubiński, Przemysław Wodzisławski of MARD
Client Polimex-Mostostal Development Sp. z o.o. Design 2008-2010
Total volume: building A – 2 515.2 m3, building B – 3 008.53 m3, building
C – 2 515.2 m3, building D – 1 836.6 m3 • Total floor area: building A –
1 368.01 m2, building B – 1 428.31 m2, building C – 1 332.8 m2, building
D – 994.4 m2 • Usable floor area: building A – 1 006.6 m2, building –
1 060.76 m2, building C – 884.9 m2, building D – 647.9 m2 • Units, total
floor area: 2 480 m2 (from 46.4 m2 to 149.1 m2) • 3 floors • 1 underground
level • 44 basement car spaces • 22 units
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FLOOR PLAN
Location Sklepowa St., Włochy district Architects Autorskie Zespoły
Architektoniczne Sp. z o.o. • Leszek Kołacz, Stefan Meckier Collaboration
Stanisław Meckier – architecture student Structural engineer Mariusz Pikus
Client/General contractor REM-BUDEX Design 2009-2010 Completion
2011-2012
Volume: 15 646 m3 • Total floor area: 4 946 m2 • Units, floor area: 1 083 m2
(from 27 m2 to 75 m2) • 3 floors • 1 undeground level • 2 surface car
spaces and 48 basement car spaces • 36 units
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Warszawska St., Milanówek Architects Autorskie Zespoły
Architektoniczne Sp. z o.o. • Stefan Meckier, Leszek Kołacz Collaboration
Stanisław Meckier – student Structural engineer Mariusz Pikus Client
Private owner Design 2009 Completion 2010-2011
FRONT ELEVATION
Volume: 4 230 m3 • Total volume: 1 312 m2 • Units, floor area: 205 m2
(2 units) • 3 floors • 1 undeground level
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SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES COMPLEX
Location Kasztanowa St., Michałowice Architects APA Wojciechowski
Marcin Grzelewski, Monika Wrzeszcz-Klonowska Client Veron Development
Sp. z o.o. Design 2009
4 832 m2 • Units, total floor area: 4 832 m2 (from 180 m2 to 230 m2) •
3 floors • 2 surface car spaces • 24 units
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Location Pałacowa St., Wilanów district Architects PRC Architekci Sp. z o.o.
• Andrzej Jurkiewicz, Andrzej Michalik, Igor Galas Collaborating architects
Piotr Migdalski, Lena Szydłowska, Leszek Brożyna, Magdalena Pasternak
Client Real Management S.A. Structural engineers J.F. Projekt Design
2010
area: 950 m2 • 2 floors + attic • 1 undeground level • 8 car spaces •
4 units
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The site of investment is surrounded by
forest. Three basic types of residences
located on the building plots that cover
from 1000 square meters up to 3500
square meters of area.
EXCLUSIVE COUNTRY RESIDENCES
Location Warsaw suburbs Architects Fiszer Atelier 41 Sp. z o.o. • Stanisław
Fiszer (head designer), Piotr Bujnowski, Krystyna Fiszer, Małgorzata
Dąbrowska, Tomasz Graj, Marcin Garbacki, Karolina Tunajek Collaborating
architect Marcin Słupeczański Client Private owner Design 2008-2009
Site of investment area approx. 20 hectares • Building area: approx.
22 000 m2 • All residences, total floor area: approx 40 000 m2 • Residence,
total living area: type A – approx. 370 m2, type B, with pavilion – approx.
720 m2, type C, with pavilion – approx. 900 m2 • 2 levels + basement •
49 residences
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DETACHED HOUSE
Location Książenice near Warsaw Architect NUX Edward Dylawerski
Structural engineer Janusz Krzykawski Client Private owner Design 2008
Completion 2011
Building plot area: 1 995 m2 • Building area: 237 m2 • Total volume:
1 348 m3 • Total floor area: 450 m2 • Total living area: 320 m2 • 2 levels
+ basement • Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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DETACHED HOUSE
Location Piaseczno Architect NUX Edward Dylawerski Structural engineer
Janusz Krzykawski Client Private owner Design 2007 Completion 2011
1 242 m3 • Total floor area: 468 m2 • Total living area: 242 m2 • 2 levels •
Garage: 2 cars (attached)
The building has steel structure hanged on reinforced concrete core
comprising stairs and technical facilities.
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DETACHED HOUSE MODERNIZATION
Modernization of the detached house built in 1960s. Owner’s
wish was to preserve its modernistic-style architecture.
Location Kanie Helenowskie Architects +48 Grupa Projektowa • Agata
Filipek, Kamil Miklaszewski, Karol Szparkowski Collaborating architect
professor Zygmunt Szparkowski Structural engineer Zygmunt Olechowski
Client Private owner Design 2008 Completion 2011
Building plot area: 1 100 m2 • Building area: 185 m2 • Total volume: 1 120 m3
• Total floor area: 322 m2 • Total living area: 270 m2 • 2 levels • Garage:
1 car (attached) + 1 roofed on-site car space
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The detached house surrounded by forest. Building’s wooden elevation is architects answer to the question, how to preserve building plot’s forest character. The door to ceiling windows on the
south side of the building.
DETACHED HOUSE
Location Sękocin Las Architects +48 Grupa Projektowa • Agata Filipek,
Kamil Miklaszewski, Karol Szparkowski Collaborating architect professor
Zygmunt Szparkowski Structural engineer Zygmunt Olechowski Client
Private owner Design 2009 Completion 2011
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SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE
Location Falenica Architects 81.WAW.PL • Anna Paszkowska, Rafał Grudziąż
Client Private owner Design 2010 Completion 2010/2011
• Total floor area: 622 m2 • Total living area: 484 m2 • 2 levels + basement
• Garage: 4 cars (attached) + 2 on-site car spaces
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
PRESENT DAY
Location Mokotów district Architects 81.WAW.PL • Anna Paszkowska, Rafał
Grudziąż Client Private owner Design 2009
• Total floor area: 512 m2 • Total living area: 390 m2 • 3 levels • 3 on-site
car spaces • 3 units
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The form of the building refers to the modernistic architecture and traditional villas of
Legionowo. Its characteristic features are: cubistic form, high quality finishing materials and large windows.
The building consists of two levels, basement and attic, and it is divided into two parts.
Upper levels are for parents and lower ones for children.
DETACHED HOUSE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location gen. Roi St., Legionowo Architects Archi-med Sollers Sp. z o.o.
• Michał Grzymała-Kazłowski (PhD), Aleksandra Ruszkowska, Luiza Trzaska
– architecture student Structural engineers Bomar Projekt • Bogusław
Stejkowski, Marcin Kraciuk Client Private owner Design 2010 Completion
2010
2 150.8 m3 • Total floor area: 498.75 m2 • Total living area: 462.23 m2 •
3 levels + basement • Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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DETACHED HOUSE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Owczarnia, Brwinów Commune Architect Damian Cyryl Kotwicki
Structural engineers KAPPA-PROJEKT Client Private owner Design 2009-2010
Garage: 2 cars (detached)
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The necessity of isolation from the neighbourhood and separation of the driveway from
the entrance were decisive for the project. It resulted in a massive form that protects
residents as a hard shell. Although, from the outside the house makes an impression
of fortress, inside it is full of light. Thanks to consecutive layers of glass the hall become
a garden – an atrium where garden merges with the house. The house to the maximum
covers the building plot area.
A simple, rectangular form was divided into three wings which are shifted 2 meters
away from each other. It resulted in the glass corridors linking all wings. Through the
house and the garden two streams (5 to 10 cm in depth) run with stones arranged in
the ‘riverbed’ style.
The interior design was based on the white and grey colors scheme. The first level
floors are made of light-grey sandstone or marble, and on the second level floors they
are made of teak wood. Stairs – the white painted steel structure.
‘HOUSE OF THE INTROVERT’
Location Izabelin Architects GRUPA PLUS • Tomasz Wuczyński, Katarzyna
Sobolewska Client Private owner Design 2009 Completion 2010/2011
Building plot area: 769 m2 • Building area: 156 m2 • Volume: 1 900 m3 •
Total floor area: 346 m2 • Total living area: 259 m2 • 2 levels + basement
• Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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The different types of windows, glass box balconies, white elevation and
simplification of forms were the most important elements of the building from the owners’ point of view who are keen on modernistic architecture. Very important for the project were the unusual, yet clear and
simple functional divisions. The entrance hall was located in the basement. This manoeuvre makes it possible to arrange the hall and living
room vertically.
The house consists of interpenetrating open spaces where stairs are not
just an element of internal circulation but they smoothly connect all
usable areas.
Location Sadyba Architects GRUPA PLUS • Tomasz Wuczyński, Monika
Niezabitowska – architecture student Client Private owner Design 2009/2010
Building plot area: 403 m2 • Building area: 143 m2 • Total volume: 1 610 m3
• Total floor area: 590 m2 • Total living area: 394.6 m2 • 3 levels +
basement • Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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The house is located on the building plot surrounded by forest. It is consisting of two cuboidal forms. The ground floor
is comprising living room, kitchen, dining room and study.
Bed rooms located on the first floor. From the side of the street
house looks like inaccesible. Small patio located in front of
the entrance hall connects this area with the garden. On the
side of the garden cuboids were shifted. This manoeuvre
makes it possible to provide the most amount of natural light.
Vertical, wooden louvers correspond to pine trees growing on
the site. Facades coated with white silicone plaster and veneer
boards. Roof covered with zinc-tytanium sheets. Driveway
made of granite Belgian blocks.
DETACHED HOUSE
Location Przyleśna St., Magdalenka Architects PDV Architekci • Przemysław
Wielądek, Jacek Ciećwierz, Robert Grabarek Client Private owner Design
Building plot area: 1 000 m2 • Building area: 224.1 m2 • Total volume:
850 m3 • Total floor area: 368.3 m2 • Total living area: 282.7 m2 • 2 levels
• Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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DETACHED HOUSE
The building is located at the base of small hill in Międzylesie. Some of the functions
have been located in the small cuboidal form and the rest of them have been hidden
in the pavilion in shape of a hill overgrown with grass. To get to the entrance hall one
must go along the wall coated with reinforced concrete slabs. Rooms are open onto
south side of the bulding plot.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Dzieci Polskich St., Międzylesie Architects PDV Architekci •
Przemysław Wielądek, Jacek Ciećwierz, Robert Grabarek Client Private
owner Design 2009 Completion 2010
Building plot area: 3 550 m2 • Building area: 383.1 m2 • Total volume:
Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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DETACHED HOUSE
HALL
ENTRANCE RAMP
ENTRANCE
HALL
BOILER ROOM/STOREROOM
VIEW
SECTION
DINING-ROOM/ LIVING ROOM
HOME CINEMA
WINE-VAULT
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Dolna St., Konstancin-Jeziorna Architects PPA – Płaskowicki
i Partnerzy Architekci • Piotr Płaskowicki, Tomasz Pokropowicz Client
Private owner Design 2010 Completion 2010
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A two-level detached house. Ground floor comprises living room, dining room, kitchen, study,
bathroom and garage. First flor comprises bedrooms, bathrooms and guest room.
A modernistic in-style architecture. Fnishing
materials typical for the neighbourhood – white
plaster, wood, metal details.
The neighbourhood – to the south building is
flanked by the forest and to the south-west by
old oaks. The building’s interior arrangement
– living room, dining room, kitchen on the
ground floor and bathroom with fitness room on
the first floor all these rooms are open onto forest. Technical facilities and garage located on
the north side of the building. All bedrooms
open to the west.
1 VESTIBULE
2 LIVING ROOM
3 KITCHEN + DINING ROOM
4 STUDY
5 PANTRY
6 WC + BOILER ROOM
7 GARAGE
8 STOREROOM
9 STOREROOM
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Jabłonna near Warsaw Architects grotte art • Bartłomiej Grotte,
Rafał Jedliński, Maciej Pędzich, Konrad Waligóra, Maria Śmigielska
Structural engineers Jarosław Kołton, Tomasz Pyciarz Client Private owner
Design 2009 Building under construction
Building plot area: 951 m2 • Building area: 212,22 m2 • Total volume:
1237.01 m3 • Total floor area: 368.56 m2 • Total living area: 302.06 m2 •
2 levels • Garage: 2 cars (attached)
DETACHED HOUSE
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The building is located in the luxury villas district. Its layout
was determined by the directions of the world. The basic aim
of the project was opening the building onto garden. The
house consists of two cuboids. The lower one has dark color
scheme and is in contrast with light color scheme of the
upper one. Thanks to this manoeuvre the building is visually
lighter and shorter.
The elevation was divided vertically and it is coated with
wooden boards which arrangement reflects the surrounding
pine trees.
DETACHED HOUSE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Magdalenka near Warsaw Architects grotte art • Bartłomiej Grotte,
Rafał Jedliński, Maciej Pędzich, Konrad Waligóra, Maria Śmigielska
Structural engineers Jarosław Kołton, Tomasz Pyciarz Client Private owner
Design 2009/10 Design still under development
1 VESTIBULE
2 LIVING ROOM
3 KITCHEN
4 GUEST ROOM
5 GARAGE
6 LAUNDRY ROOM + BOILER ROOM
7 WC
8 PANTRY
Building plot area: 1 000 m2 • Building area: 222,4 m2 • Total volume:
956.01 m3 • Total floor area: 294.5 m2 • Total living area: 247.5 m2 •
2 levels • Garage: 2 cars (attached)
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After modernization building’s total living area will be almost tripled. The building comprises: living room connected with the garden, studio with sliding glass
roof, spacious bed rooms, wardrobes and bathrooms, sauna, study and fitness
room. Door to ceiling windows provide the most amount of natural light.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
TOWN HOUSE MODERNIZATION
Location Mokotów Architects Brzozowski Grabowiecki Architekci • Konrad
Grabowiecki, Jan Belina Brzozowski Collaborating architects Barbara
Trojanowska, Jacek Jaskólski Structural engineer Artur Sieczkowski Client
Private owner Design 2008 Completion 2010-11
Building plot area: 253 m2 • Building area: 114 m2 • Total volume: 1 397 m3
• Total floor area: 477 m2 • Total living area: 329 m2 • 3 levels + basement
• 1 on-site car space
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The detached house with guest room that can
be easyli transformed into tied accomodation
or servant’s room.
The building has been designed in accordance
with the sustainable building development
principles. It is equipped in geothermal heat
pump, solar panels for water heating and rainwater recuperation system – ‘grey water’ used
in toilets.
DETACHED HOUSE
Location Czarnów village near Konstancin Architects GRUPA 5 Sp. z o.o.
• Roman Dziedziejko, Mikołaj Kadłubowski, Michał Leszczyński, Krzysztof
Mycielski, Rafał Zelent Collaboration Mikołaj Kołacz – architect, Michał
Rogowski – architecture student Client Private owner Design 2010
Completion 2011
Building plot area: 4 000 m2 Building area: 350 m2 • Total volume: 2 200 m3
• Total floor area: 600 m2 • Total living area: 450 m2 • 2 levels • Garage:
3 cars (attached) + 1 on-site car space
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DETACHED HOUSE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Location Lipków village, Stare Babice commune Architects Szcześniak
Denier Architekci Sp. z o.o. • Marek Szcześniak, Marcin Szymański, Ewelina
Moszczyńska, Maciej Zawadzki, Piotr Sikorski, Krzysztof Lenart Structural
engineers Konstrukcje Budowlane Adam Klimek • Adam Klimek, Elżbieta
Pawlik, Beata Matuszczak Client Private owner Design 2009 Completion
2010
Building plot area: 1 080 m2 • Building area: 239,4 m2 • Total volume:
1 360,5 m2 • Total floor area: 478,8 m2 • Total living area: 321,5 m2 •
2 levels
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SASKI PALACE ALTERNATIVE TRANSFORMATION PROJECT
Author Rafał Szczepański
Rendering – 2010 Mateusz Szurgot
„Our design of the north frontage development of the Plac Pilsudskiego (Pilsudski Square) has been created in 2004. It was
a fragment of the larger project prepared in 2005 for the competition commemorating of Pope John Paul II. The project of
Jerzy Kalita and Rafał Szczepański, prepared in cooperation with Michał Kleniewski, has never been admitted to the main
competition. Its principal assumption was to depict the influence of ideas of John Paul II in the shape of concentric circles on
the Square’s floor.
I was always fascinated by this national agora with the sacred fire of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with its northern frontage
next to the Teatr Wielki (Grand Theatre – some say, that its scale was Bohdan Pniewski’s answer to the Palace of Culture and
Science); with park on the west and with the relics of the Saski Palace colonnade housing the most important monument in
Poland. When Sir Norman Foster’s Millenium Building came into being it has changed the whole urban layout marked out by
the axis of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Grand Theatre. At that moment, I understood that the square should be finally
closed on the west and on the south. To achieve it, I have designed the alternative building development of the western frontage
that is similar to the destroyed, historic one. I have saved the park and the green surroundings of the Tomb. In mine opinion,
the restoration of the Saski Palace in its historic shape is the worst possible solution.
I have reconstructed the Saski Palace in the form of macroscale trellis made of steel wire netting and overgrown by the
evergreen creepers. I also added two, simple in form, transparent pavilions. In mine opinion, this is the only way to save the
physical, mental and metaphysical dimensions of the Square, its unity with the Saski Garden and Tomb’s arcade. It is a rescue
for Square’s genius loci.”
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The Forum Rozwoju Warszawy (FRW – the Warsaw Development Forum) presented the „Plac Piłsudskiego Project”
(Piłsudski Square Project) in December 2008. The concept
is the restoration of Pałac Saski (Saski Palace) and the spatial development of the Piłsudski Square. We have proposed
using private sector funding for this purpose. In return, the
investor would receive for usage two buildings (both built
in place of the destroyed annexes of the Palace) and an underground parking garage situated under the square. This
concept resolves the problem of getting the funds for Palace
restoration. It also shows the way for reconstruction of the Oś
Saska (Saska Axis) - by the redevelopment of buildings which
are a missing piece of the pre-war urban layout. This project
provides an opportunity for revitalization of the Pilsudski
Square. It changes the space into a true urban plaza for both
residents and tourists alike. According to FRW the construction of three additional structures such as underground parking garage and two new Palace’s annexes could resolve the
problem of getting funds for reconstruction of Saski Palace.
The private investor, within the specific time and under the
conditions, precisely determined by the city authorities, could
derive profits from these buildings untill the investment is
balanced. Those annexes would stay in place of the baroque
ones and replace today’s lawns. They would be located at
a distance of 20 meters from the Saski Palace wings and
would not be higher than the Palace’s cornice. The annexes
would consist of two units; the three-storey interior one, (from
the side of the square) and the four-storey outer one (from
the side of the street). Since these buildings are supposed
to serve as annexes of the Saski Palace, their location and
size should be adjusted to the latter. Their architectural form
should reflect the Palace, however their final shape may not be
an exact copy of the Palace’s facades. The choice of the form
of those buildings -historic or modern- should be discussed
among experts. The interior of annexes would be arranged
according to agreement reached between the investor and
city authorities. The premises located on the ground floor
shall have metropolitan style. They should consist of cafes,
restaurants, boutiques or clubs but not financial centers which
tent to attract significantly less people.
The underground parking garage for 1100 cars would have its
entrance situated on the annexes’ ground floors. The FRW suggests that they should be located next to the Victoria Hotel; the
entrance from Królewska St and the exit on Pasaż Niżyńskiego
St. Moreover on the Fredry St an additional emergency exit
will be located. In the future, it could become an entrance
for another underground parking garage, located under the
reconstructed Bruehl’s Palace.
The main goal of the FRW project is to revive the Square. A
new public space has to attract people and encourage them to
spend their spare time around. Therefore the annexes’ ground
floors must be open for residents and tourists. The contract
between the private investor and city authorities should determine possible purposes of this place. However the Palace’s
ground floors should remain closed because of the monumen-
PIŁSUDSKIEGO SQUARE
Design by Forum Rozwoju Warszawy Coordination Wojciech
Nowakowski, Marcin Wojciechowski, Witold Weszczak
Collaboration Michał Harasimowicz, Jan Jakiel, Michał Sadowski,
Tomasz Sikorski Project carried out in 2008-2009
tal character of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The area between annexes will remain spacious. It will be
crowded few days a year during national holidays (capacity,
approximatelly 40 000 people). However during the rest of the
year this 1 hectare flat space will be filled with trees in plant
pots. This kind of greenery will introduce a nice, alive accent
into the monumental space.
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tion of The Palace as a local centre point. This is an area
where higher buildings like hotels or residential buildings
could stand creating the City of Warsaw sky-scrappers. It
will provide a metropolitan look to the Chmielna and Widok
Streets passage.
We do not intend to determine the architecture of the new
building development. We would like it to refer to the characteristic Warsaw architecture styles but remain a modern,
urban, architectural composition. It should harmonize with the
eclectic tenement houses on Jerozolimskie Av, Central Rail
Station, Golden Terraces, the Palace and the nearby Museum
of Contemporary Art. This conception of the monumental
building development is supposed to concentrate the city
life and turn the old Defilad Square into the real downtown.
WARSAW MANHATTAN
The existence of a row of sky-scrappers on the western side
of Emilii Plater St and the Palace on the eastern one results in
the natural need for completion and unification of the existing
sky-scrappers into the one City with Emilii Plater St as the
representative alley.
On the Defilad Square we propose a creation of urban structure
corresponding with the surrounding. We consider adjustment
of the scale and density of the building development, adaptation of the quarters size, connection with existing layout of the
streets and the reconstruction of pre-war ones.
METROPOLITAN STYLE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT
DEFILAD SQUARE
Design by Forum Rozwoju Warszawy Location Śródmieście
District (Downtown) The originator of the project Michał Tatjewski
Collaboration Michał Harasimowicz, Krzysztof Ismonowicz, Jan
Jakiel, Arkadiusz Jerzak, Piotr Jutkiewicz, Paweł Łukaszewicz,
Michał Nitychoruk, Michał Sadowski, arch. krajobrazu Bartosz
Szeszko, Witold Weszczak, Marcin Wojciechowski, Patryk D.
Zaremba Project carried out in 2008-2010
The consolidation of the Square with the rest of the city will
change this area into the Warsaw’s downtown. The reconstruction of the pre-war Widok and Chmielna Streets needs a
creation of dense, downtown-in- style frontages that will run
along Marszałkowska St. up to Emilii Plater St. That will allow
for an accumulation of services, retail and catering business
in the relatively small area resulting in the creation of dynamic
and resident friendly downtown.
The buildings projected along Jerozolimskie Avenues, Widok
and Chmielna Streets should mirror the downtown form of design. They should combine aesthetics, quality and comfort. In
our project, Jerozolimskie Av frontage, by its height and form,
refers to the buildings existing on the other side of street.
High buildings which are closer to Emilii Plater Street and
the Palace of Culture and Science will diminish the posi-
FRW suggests a location of two sky-scrappers along western
side of the Palace that would be higher than the latter and one
much lower tower at the end of Chmielna St. This idea would
make Palace less dominant and unify it with the existing building development. This will emphasize the special character
of the Emilii Plater St as an alley among sky-scrappers. The
creation of the Western Wall would become a counterbalance
for the Eastern Wall towers.
By the unification of the Palace with two other towers we would
create a completely new skyline which would be distinguished
in Europe. This Western Wall would not disturb harmonic,
low Warsaw urban layout but will crown monumentally the
Defilad Square area.
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The „Aleja Marszałkowska Project” (Marszałkowska Avenue)
is the civic initiative of the Forum Rozwoju Warszawy (FRW
– Warsaw Development Forum). Its main goal is to show a
potential of Marszałkowska St. as a main commercial zone in
Warsaw and to convince the Major of Warsaw that the preparation of the Marszałkowska Street Development Strategy is
essential for the city.
The project includes: the historic sketch of the street; the concept of transport; the expert opinion of legal aspects regarding
the support of the city’s authorities for the project; the financial
report and many graphics, sketches and artistic visions.
The project is an attempt of the broad approach to the downtown area and one of its main streets. It depicts the main ways
of its spatial development. It shows the importance of the
proper communication between the authorities, the city residents and businessmen. Moreover, coexisting of the greenery,
the street adverts and bill boards, the vehicular traffic, the
small architecture and preservation of the historic buildings is
crucial for the local spatial development plans. Therefore, the
FRW proposed to prepare the concept of the Marszałkowska
St. Development Strategy similar to those designed for Łódź
and many other cities across Europe.
In December 2009, the Commissions of the Public Dialogue of
the Architecture and City Planning Department and Road Lane
Reparations and Investment Coordination Department have
passed the resolutions supporting the project of the Warsaw
non-governmental organizations. They addressed a request to
the Major of Warsaw for processing of this document.
Within the frames of the project, the FRW have carried out
many interviews with people both living and running their
business at Marszałkowska St. All their demands and conclusions were taken into consideration during the working
out of the project.
The FRW, after the consultation with the city authorities, took
part in the designing of local spatial development plan of the
quarter bordered by Królewska, Marszałkowska, Hoża and Trakt
Królewski (Royal Road) streets. The FRW proposed the strict
protection of the Eastern Wall urban layout and the restitution
of the cross-roads in place of today’s Dmowski Roundabout.
At the turn of 2009 and 2010, the FRW in the cooperation
with the bryla.pl Internet portal prepared a competition for
the concept of the outdoor for Marszałkowska Street. The idea
was supported by the Stowarzyszenie Miasto Moje a w Nim,
Delikatesy TR and Centrum Komunikacji Społecznej. This
project showed that Marszałkowska St. needs to be unified
with existing layout. Moreover it started the discussion in the
local mass media about the quality of Warsaw public space.
“Aleja Marszałkowska Project” initiates a discussion and dialogue between different users of Marszałkowska St. It encourages the city residents to take part in the creation of the city.
The Project was supported by the Stefan Batory Foundation
grant and FRW own funds.
‘ALEJA MARSZAŁKOWSKA’ PROJECT
Authors Forum Rozwoju Warszawy Location Śródmieście district
Coordination Michał Sadowski, Patryk D. Zaremba Collaboration
Archiwum Państwowe m. st. Warszawy National Archive of the
City of Warsaw), Stefan Batory Foundation – the funding body,
Tomasz Birezowski, BetonBrut (PhD), Filip Elżanowski (PhD),
Michał Harasimowicz, Krzysztof Ismonowicz, Jan Jakiel, Arkadiusz
Jerzak, Piotr Jutkiewicz, Piotr Kilanowski, Ryszard Mączewski,
Michał Nitychoruk, Piotr Otrębski, Michał Sadowski, Paulina
Sikorska, Tomasz Sikorski, Maciej Szczepański, Michał Tatjewski,
Witold Weszczak, Marcin Wojciechowski, Artur Zadroziński, Patryk
D. Zaremba, Artur Żebrowski Design 2008-2010
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CLEAN UP THE MESS
The worst thing about this area is the total disorder and
degraded cityscape. Despite this space has been divided
between three different governing bodies, in every part regrettable images can be found. It does not look like the centre of the city, although it is located near to the Królewskie
Przedmieście, one of the most representative streets in Warsaw. We want the Grodzicki Garden to become a landmark of
aesthetics. Our renderings show ordered and well kept area.
We want the city to be proud of this place.
CIVIC CONCEPTION
GRODZICKIEGO GARDEN
Authors Forum Rozwoju Warszawy Location Śródmieście
district Coordination Marcin Wojciechowski, Witold Weszczak
Collaboration Monika Domanowska, Tomasz Pawlak Design
2009-2010
This is the conception of the new public space in Warsaw:
a garden for open air events.
Location: a car park at the back of the Krakowskie Przedmieście
and 1/3/5 Królewska St. Functions: a garden assigned for
cultural purposes.
PUBLIC SPACE
The idea is to create a brand new public space in the place in
Warsaw, which at this moment is the restricted area bordered by
Krakowskie Przedmieście St., Krolewska St., so called Niżyńskiego
Passage and Academy of Fine Arts buildings. Now, the car park
is located there. This area is unavailable in two ways. First, it has
been divided into the pieces by many fences and second, there is
nothing that encourages people to spend their spare time around.
It is mostly closed for the passers-by. The fence and the parking
barrier separate this area from the rest of the city.
We are against the fences and “no trespassing” areas in the
city. We demand that area to be included into the city layout
and available for the city residents and tourists.
Renderings presented here do not depict the finished project.
We just want to present the potential of this place. For us, it
is a perfect, unemployed and forgotten location. Our group
prepared two different spatial development concepts of the
same area. We wanted to encourage Warsaw city residents
to create other ideas for Grodzickiego Garden. But mostly we
wanted to appeal to city authorities for returning this place to
the people. It would be great if the space serving common
people could be created by them.
WHY THE CONCERTS?
Because it is accepted in Poland that so called high culture
is reserved for elite and it is inaccessible for the others. We
want it to be available for everyone. Even for the accidental
passers-by or those who are coming here just to rest. It is
very important that the admission for such concerts should
be free. Open air concerts are something natural across Europe. In Warsaw they are organized in the Łazienki Królewskie
Garden with great succsess. We also propose the transparent
exhibit pavilion. Such place would be an important asset for
Warsaw in its struggle for title of European Capital of Culture
in 2016.
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‘Many cities across the world are easy recognizable by the landmarks characteristic only for them. Used in the
proper way they create the city’s value. This is the only way to achieve the success. We live in a non- homogenous, chaotic city. Thanks to that, it is marvelously secret and unclear. Warsaw is not an ordered place nowadays.
Apart from the places we are spending our whole live, we understand the city only if it is clearly ordered. We
need a harmony; we need our city to be expressive. Only this part of the city which we understand becomes the
Place. Groups of Places are especially important for the city.
Is there anything that unites such Places as the Citadel, Old Town, Jazdów, Łazienki Królewskie Garden, Morskie
Oko Park, Arkadia Park… And what in common have Legionów Fort, Kings Castle, Kazimierzowski Palace, National
Museum, Parliament, Ujazdowski Castle, Belvedere or Królikarnia Palace… Where, at the moment, one can find
the Museum of Polish Army, Chopin Centre or Museum of Polish History?
All of these buildings have common denominator; what we have to do is to pull it out. We can unite all those
places and make them better known and closer for us. Are we really aware that all of them are located in the
neighborhood?
Warsaw is a city situated on the escarpment!
Some of the mentioned above areas are parts of the Warsaw Escarpment. Warsaw city residents are aware that
here or there some “hills” are situated, but a few of them know that all those hills create one Escarpment. We
know these parts separately but we do not consider them as the wholeness. We are not aware of the continuity.
Toy building bricks will be helpful here. I encourage you to arrange them.
The Escarpment is a cliff which was important for the city location and its development. Therefore the important
castles, palaces, churches and other public buildings were built here through ages. The top of the escarpment
had been a very prestigious location for many ages. That is why, the buildings located around create a unique
row of Extraordinary Places nowadays. Most of the latter are related with Culture. Aleja na Skarpie (Avenue on
the Escarpment) runs through important points located on this path and, what is distinctive, it runs through
many valuable areas of greenery.
The Escarpment’s uniqueness is a great value for the residents and great potential for the development. The
Avenue appeared on old maps in 1916. Just after that, its first part was re-constructed. It will be its centenary in
2016. After hundred years of the tragedies, changes, falls and rebirths Warsaw should finally finish the creation
of such extraordinary urban concept!’
ESCARPMENT GREENERY
GREENERY ADJACENT TO THE ESCARPMENT
RIVER
Vistula and Escarpment
Warsaw is not located on the river Vistula! The city was
located on the Escarpment and that makes a difference.
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Location Złota St./Pasaż Wiecha Architects Are Sp. z o.o. •
Jakub Wacławek, Grzegorz Stiasny Collaborating architect
Tomasz Starczewski Client Alma Development Design 2009
Total volume: 34 000 m3 • Total floor area: 7 676 m2 •
Usable floor area: 5 704 m2 • 8 floors • 3 undeground levels
• 38 basement car spaces
This building has been located in place of the existing Relax Cinema, at the corner of the Zlota St. and the Pasaż Wiecha (Wiecha
Passage) in Warsaw. It is a part of the East Side Complex designed
by Professor Zbigniew Karpiński. It is one of the very few urban
and architectural concepts accomplished after World War II (1960s
and 1970s) and it is a perfect example of the modern post-war
Polish architecture.
On the “-1” level, ground floor and “+1” level only the retail
spaces have been anticipated. The main entrance is located at Złota
St. The storey from the second to the sixth will contain the office
spaces for clients’ purposes or will be assigned for let.
The office levels access is assured by two lifts and emergency
stairs. The retail spaces are equipped with two transparent lifts
and the additional representative stairs.
‘RELAX – ALMA’ MIXED-USE COMMERCIAL BUILDING
The building has irregular, dynamic form resulting from the analysis of the exposure to natural light of the neighbouring buildings.
The new building should be perfectly fitted within the borders of the
Relax Cinema building. Therefore, the diaphragm walls technology
need to be used. The outer walls will play a role of the curtain walls
and will be made of the three layers rhombic glass panels.
EAST ELEVATION
The glass panels have different transparency grade and create
a pattern that allows for play of lights. The sloped roof surfaces reflect the light and enlighten apartments in the neighbouring buildings. Chosen surfaces can be equipped with the LCD screens and
serve for advertising purposes. The original characteristic “Relax”
neonlight will be reconstructed in the main hall as a symbolic
piece connecting the past and the future.
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Author Jakub Szczęsny Cooperation Kaja Pawełek, Artur Kolanowski,
Witek Komarczewski, Marek Tkaczyk Tomasz Gancarczyk, Ola Mirecka
Production Bęc Zmiana Fundation Time estimated June 2010 Location
Czerniakowski peninsula
SYNCHRONICITY 2:
PUBLIC WATER PURIFICATION ISLAND
cysterna z oczyszczoną wodą
treated water tank
lampa sygnałowa
sigmal lamp
rurka z PCV do deszczownicy
PCV pipe to rain machine
cysterna z filtrem
tank with filter
deszczownica
rain machine
przezroczyste rurki z PCV
transparent PVC pipes
niecka fontanny
foutain’s basin
drewniany reling na h=110 cm
wooden reiling h=110 cm
pokład: drewno teak lub ipe
deck: teak or ipe wood
In frame of the second issue of architecture/art festival SYNCHRONICITY,
Warsaw City Council commissioned an installation that would interfere with
the new city program of the revitalization of Vistula riverside. A floating island
came out as a natural idea, as islands/platforms symbolize autonomy from
reality serving as ideal figures or conceptualization spaces.
Project facts
I’ve proposed a systematic approach: a water treatment plant powered by
human muscles by Warsaw inhabitants performing fitness exercises and
pumping polluted river water via kinetic pumps integrated in the fitness machines to four filters and four tanks to a fountain basin at the very end of the
cycle. The whole installation is supposed to perform a role of a propaganda
tool changing the consciousness of Warsawers by showing the efficiency
of human action in the process of purifying the waters of their river. What’s
meaningful, is the fact, that many Poles, even after twenty years of liberalization, still don’t believe in their own potential as individuals or members of
communities, in positively changing their life environment.
sprzęt fitnesowy
fitness machines
beczka stalowa x 24
steel tank x 24
turbina
turbine
lampy LED
LED lamps
poziom wody
water level
pobór wody
water intake
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In the crack between the buildings on 22 Chłodna St. and 74
Żelazna St., Jakub Szczęsny designed an art installation entitled Ermitage, which shall become the narrowest house in Warsaw, since
its interior will come to 133 centimeters in the widest spot.
Ermitage will be a workplace, a hermitage created for an outstanding Isreali writer, Etgar Keret. Besides, it will also fulfill a function
of a studio for invited guests – young creators and intellectualists
from all over the world. The residential program, conducted in the
heart of Wola, is supposed to produce creative work conditions and
become a significant platform for world intellectual exchange.
ERMITAGE – ETGAR KERET’S HOUSE
Author Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala Organizer The Polish Modern Art Foundation Client/
Cooperation Etgar Keret Rendering Tomasz Gancarczyk Completion planned in October
2010
‘This year, for the first time, the MA dissertations of students of the Faculty of Architecture
of the Warsaw University of Technology will be presented during the ‘Plans for the Future’
architectural exhibition. From the most interesting 38 dissertations, defended in 2009,
held under the direction of 20 thesis supervisors, the SARP and the Faculty of Architecture representatives have chosen the best three focused on Warsaw.
The MA dissertation is a work that is the coping stone of the academic career. It is also
the expression of the one’s own reflections on the surrounding public space. The first
things that students have to do are the choice of the topic of dissertation and formulate
the theoretical problem, which will be the topic of an essay related with the designing
task. The sharp look on the topics chosen by the architecture students is a kind of barometer of the future architects’ views in surrounding world.
Looking for the shared feature of the presented designs one should notice that all of them
are focused on art, science and history. They pick up the problems of the today’s city
public space. In their dissertations they try to upgrade its value and enrich it with new
and interesting functions. Young architects’ fresh, bold and independent look at the modern capital’s problems is an interesting complement of the exhibition, which shows the
designs that can be present soon in our cityscape.’
Marcin Górski (PhD) – architect
Assistant professor in School of Preservation and Conservation of the Faculty
of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology
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The subject of the thesis is the new site of the Teatr Nowy in Warsaw. Until recently, the plays – under
direction of Adam Hanuszkiewicz – have been staged in an auditorium on 39 Puławska street (former site of
the Teatr Ludowy, Operetka, Ton cinema before the war – the location was culturally linked to the site since
its very beginnings). Since the theatre site was overtaken by one of the supermarket chains, the stage plays
had been limited only to the small auditorium on the neighbouring site. Last year, the city authorities have
decided to split the theatre and move its repertory activities nearby – to Madalińskiego street. Recently an
architectural competition has been concluded for the so-called Nowy Teatr (New Theatre).
The subject of this project is an attempt to argue with this decision. A new theatre building – instead of
subsidiary additions to the existing auditorium – could be a tie and provide continuity to the cultural heritage of the site on Puławska street.
However, the situation of theatres on tight city centre sites, filling gaps in the existing city structure, has its
limitations. The historical background of such an approach has been detailed in the theoretical part of the
study “Contemporary theatrical buildings in the context of intense city centre environment” (“Współczesny
obiekt teatralny w intensywnej zabudowie śródmiejskiej”). It also includes examples and characteristics of
other buildings of such type. It shows that it is possible to merge the historical legacy of such a development with the contemporary requirements of a theatre building. In addition, it shows that such buildings
can provide an essential upgrade to the existing – usually quite uniform – streetscape.
I truly hope that the theatre I’m proposing will be such an upgrade. As a summary of theoretical studies – of
sorts – it will fill the space in the streetscape of Puławska street, tying up with the existing buildings, while
at the same time providing a differentiation, an autonomy necessary for the functioning of a new theatre. A
compact cubic block, situated centrally on site, that keeps its distance from the neighbouring buildings at
the same time – can be associated with the idea of a big drawer fitting in between full of theatrical attractions. On the ground floor level it is possible to walk freely around the building, while on the upper levels
it is attached to the neighbouring buildings – but its autonomy remains clearly visible as the main block
is visually detached through the glazing of the tying elements on the sides.
A detailed overview of the project’s idea – preceded by a historical background of its location and of the
institution that the Teatr Nowy is – is concluded by a description of the techniques used.
NEW NEW THEATRE
Student Grzegorz Kruk
Supervisor Jacek Cybis
The Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw
University of Technology 2010
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The main assumption of the project is the creation of the representative urban
space, similar to the Trakt Królewski (Royal Road) on the left river bank. Its main
axis will be the Targowa St., which starts in Plac Skaryszewski (Skaryszewski
Square) and then runs along the Plac Ząbkowski (Ząbkowski Square) up to the
Plac Wileński (Wileński Square).
Various transport investments resulted in the Targowa St. new arrangement and
reduced the vehicular transport on that street. The latter is a footh-path that connects the Praski and the Skaryszewski parks with the ZOO. It is a fastener that
brings together the Praga Północ and the Praga Południe districts. The introducing of the new entertaining, recreational and cultural functions together with the
highlighted old ones give a new quality to this area. The division of the Targowa
St. into the sections with individual character, and into the plazas with different
profiles brings many new possibilities in their arrangement. They make this street
a distinctive location on the city map.
The Ząbkowski Square is a central, multifunction place where one can touch both
the art and history. It is supposed to link up two Museums: the Museum of Praga
and the Museum of Jews of Praga, and to highlight a theatre’s new building.
The latter consists of two units: mobile auditorium with screen and stage with its
back. The mobile unit can move out the square. The roofed auditorium comprising 416 seats consists of four mechanically lowered platforms with seats. When
the building serves as a screen one can watch plays or films screened on it. The
building has its own parking garage with the small retail spaces, box-offices, gas
station and toilets.
It is planned that underneath the Targowa St. a second line of underground will be
built. The tram tracks and a narrow line for taxi cabs and city services’ vehicles
have been left on Targowa St.
TARGOWA STREET AREA SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Student Renata Pieńkowska
Supervisor professor Sławomir Gzell
The Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology 2010
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The main assumption of this project is the creation of the modern library,
which except the traditional library collection will comprise the digital
versions of all publications that are available in other libraries of Warsaw
University of Technology.
This is only a theoretical project.
It consists of multilevel parking garage, lecture rooms, two assembly
halls (one for 417 people and the other for 120), rooms for candidates
for a doctor’s degree, multimedia and special 3D presentations rooms.
The building will also comprise a Student Club for all those who need
to rest or to eat.
At the moment, there is one main library and 35 other libraries belonging to University’s faculties and institutes. Except the books and other
printed records the libraries’ collections consist of microfilms, audiovisual carriers and data bases. All of it is systemized but this system
has its own impact on the spatial arrangement.
The entrance zone: the library information, the catalogues and special
posts for those who want to borrow or to return books.
The interior of the new building should serve for the architectural education. The building by itself shows different building materials such
as brick, concrete, wood, steel, stone, glass or different construction
technologies.
The Jet grounting technology had been anticipated for the foundation works. The roofs are based on the steel pillars and the reinforced
concrete walls. They are covered with the safety glass. The building
comprises new lifts, two staircases, passage over the green area and
entrance ramp to the parking garage. Inside the building I have anticipated up to 10 meters high trees in plant pots.
To connect the new building with the Faculty of Architecture’s one I
decided to strengthen the foundations of the latter and breach the walls
on its underground levels.
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The Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology 2010
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Title page........................................................................................................... 1
Preface by the Major Of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz...................................3
Preface by the Director of the LOWICKA Centre Katarzyna Hagmajer...................4
Competitions............................................................................................................5
The Museum of Polish History.................................................................................6
First prize..................................................................................................................7
Second prize............................................................................................................8
Third prize.................................................................................................................9
Honourable mentions....................................................................................... 10-12
The Museum of Polish Army..................................................................................13
First prize................................................................................................................14
Second prize..........................................................................................................15
Third prize...............................................................................................................16
The Museum in Palmiry..........................................................................................17
Europan 10....................................................................................................... 18-25
URBAN SPACE................................................................................................ 26
Map Of Warsaw Construction Investments...........................................................27
Służewiec Przemysłowy – Konstruktorska Street area..........................................28
Ryżowa Street – graveyard area............................................................................29
Bracka and Szpitalna Streets – urban analysis
of the public space transformation........................................................................30
Rydygiera Street Development Plan, Żoliborz district...........................................31
Białołęka Wieś Housing Estate Local Spatial Development Plan..........................32
Stanisława Kostki Potockiego Street modernization, Wilanów district..................33
Józefa Wybickiego Park Modernization Plan, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki................34
J. Polińskiego Park modernization project, Szaserów St.......................................35
Alojzy Pawełek Square transformation project, Wola-Czyste................................36
Left Bank Of The River Vistula Spatial Development Plan –
area delimited by Tamka and Boleść Streets.........................................................37
PUBLIC BUILDINGS........................................................................................ 38
Office building, Foksal St.......................................................................................39
‘Eurocentrum’. hotel and business park, Ochota district......................................40
‘Żelazna 23’ office building, Żelazna St.................................................................41
Mixed-use business park, Wola district.................................................................42
Zebra Tower, Jazdy Polskiej Roundabout..............................................................43
‘Vector’ business park, Obozowa St./Prymasa Tysiąclecia Av. .............................44
„Business Garden”, Żwirki i Wigury St./ 1-go sierpnia St./Iłżecka St.....................45
‘Platinium IV’ business park, Wołoska St...............................................................46
„Konstruktorska Office Develompment”, Konstruktorska St.................................47
Office building, Pawia St........................................................................................48
Office building, Jerozolimskie Av...........................................................................49
Office building, Ciasna St......................................................................................50
Business park, Mickiewicza St./Rudzka St............................................................51
Office building, Kolumbijska St., Młociny..............................................................52
Polish Security Printing Works - Building R superstructure, Sanguszki St...........53
Water mill transformation into a hotel, Korytów near Żyrardów.............................54
Hotel with commercial retail units, Raszyn............................................................55
Hotel 5*, Okęcie Airport area.................................................................................56
Housing complex, Grójecka St./Banacha St., first prize in competition ...............57
Housing complex, Grójecka St./Banacha St., second prize in competition .........58
Housing complex, Grójecka St./Banacha St., third prize in competition..............59
Children’s Hospital of the Medical University Of Warsaw,
first prize in competition, Banacha St. ..................................................................60
Children’s Hospital of the Medical University Of Warsaw,
honourable mention in competition Banacha St. .................................................61
Partial Deafness Diagnostics And Treatment Centre,
Kajetany near Warsaw ..........................................................................................62
Cancer Prevention Centre, Ursynów district..........................................................63
Mixed-Use Building, Baletowa St. .........................................................................64
Mixed-Use Office Building, Młociny.......................................................................65
Rest house and clinic for the Warsaw Jewish Community, Wola district...............66
Educational, Culture and Sports Centre, Chotomów............................................67
‘Hutnik Warszawa’ Sports Club support facility building.......................................68
District Library, Piaseczno, Chyliczkowska St. ......................................................69
Integrational Preschool No 226 building’s extension, Strumykowa St. ................70
Preschool, Przasnyska St. .....................................................................................71
‘Multicentrum’, Community Centre, Piaski Housing Estate ..................................72
Community Centre, Piaski Housing Estate ...........................................................73
‘KADR’ Community Centre, Rzymowskiego St. ....................................................74
State Theatre Academy building’s extension, Miodowa St. .................................75
Elizeum (Elysium), Książęca St. ...........................................................................76
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.............................................................................. 77
Mixed-use residential building, Karowa St. ...........................................................78
Mixed-use residential building, Górskiego St. ......................................................79
Saska Housing Estate, first phase, Gen. T. Bora-Komorowskiego St. .................80
Saska Housing Estate, second phase,
Gen. T. Bora-Komorowskiego St. area ..................................................................81
Saska Housing Estate, third phase,
Gen. T. Bora-Komorowskiego St. area ..................................................................82
‘Libretto’ Housing Estate, Praga Południe district ................................................83
Residential buildings complex, Rudzka St./Mickiewicza St. .................................84
Mixed-use residential buildings complex,
Rydygiera St./Burakowska St./Przasnyska St. ......................................................85
Residential buildings complex, Cynamonowa St. ................................................86
Mixed-use residential building, Białołęka district ..................................................87
Residential building, Pełczyńskiego St. ................................................................88
‘Willa Nastrojowa’ multi-unit residential building,
between Nastrojowa and Potrzebna St. ...............................................................89
Mixed-use residential building, Wolska St. ...........................................................90
Residential building, Kłobucka St. ........................................................................91
Mixed-use residential buildings complex and office building,
Magazynowa St. ....................................................................................................92
Mixed-use residential building, Sienna St. ............................................................93
Mixed-use residential complex, Powstańców St., Ząbki........................................94
Mixed-use residential building, Husarska St., Legionowo.....................................95
Residential buildings, Krańcowa St. .....................................................................96
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Mixed-use residential building, Karolkowa St. .....................................................97
Low-rise residential building, Zacisze ...................................................................98
Housing estate, Bartycka St./Bluszczańska St. ....................................................99
Mixed-use residential building, Bernardyńska St. ...............................................100
Mixed-use residential building, Klimczaka St. ....................................................101
Residential building, Serocka St. ........................................................................102
Mixed-use residential building, Dubieńska St. ....................................................103
Multi-unit residential building, Krasickiego St. ....................................................104
Mixed-use residential building, Puławska St., Piaseczno....................................105
Mixed-use residential building, Wielicka St. ........................................................106
‘Apartamenty Podchorążych 89’ residential building, Podchorążych St. ...........107
Multi-unit residential building, Bełska St .............................................................108
Mixed-use residential building, Krypska St. .......................................................109
Residential building, Lirowa St. ...........................................................................110
Multi-unit residential buildings, Pustułeczki St. ..................................................111
Residential buildings complex, Sklepowa St. .....................................................112
Mixed-use residential building, Warszawska St., Milanówek...............................113
Single-family houses complex, Michałowice.......................................................114
Multi-unit residential buildings complex, Pałacowa St. ......................................115
Exclusive country residences, Warsaw suburbs .................................................116
SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES............................................................................. 117
Detached house, Książenice...............................................................................118
Detached house, Piaseczno................................................................................119
Detached house modernization, Kanie Helenowskie .........................................120
Detached house, Sękocin....................................................................................121
Semi-detached house, Falenica..........................................................................122
Detached house moderniation, Mokotów............................................................123
Detached house, Legionowo...............................................................................124
Detached house, Owczarnia, gmina Brwinów.....................................................125
‘House of the Introvert’, Izabelin .........................................................................126
Detached house moderniation, Sadyba..............................................................127
Detached house, Magdalenka.............................................................................128
Detached house, Międzylesie..............................................................................129
Detached house, Konstancin-Jeziorna................................................................130
Detached house, Jabłonna..................................................................................131
Detached house, Magdalenka.............................................................................132
Town house modernization, Mokotów.................................................................133
Detached house...................................................................................................134
Detached house, Lipków.....................................................................................135
CONCEPTS.................................................................................................... 137
Saski Palace alternative transformation project,
Piłsudskiego Square ...........................................................................................138
Piłsudskiego Square ...........................................................................................139
Defilad Square.....................................................................................................140
‘Aleja Marszałkowska’ Project, Śródmieście district............................................141
Grodzickiego Garden, Śródmieście district ........................................................142
Avenue on the Escarpment – Warsaw Road of the Culture ................................143
‘Relax – Alma’ mixed-use commercial building,
Złota st./Pasaż Wiecha ........................................................................................144
Synchronicity 2: Public Water Purification Island ................................................145
Ermitage – Etgar Keret’s House...........................................................................146
MA DISSERTATIONS..................................................................................... 147
New New Theatre, Puławska St. .........................................................................148
Targowa Street Area Spatial Development Plan..................................................149
The Warsaw University’s Of Technology the Faculty
of Architecture Library Building Koszykowa St. .................................................150
The Friends of Integration Association advertising page ....................................151
LOWICKA Centre advertising pages ........................................................... 152-153
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EXHIBITION
Commissioner
Dorota Katner
Exhibition layout
Joanna Maciejewska, Łukasz Wawrynkiewicz
Charts desing
Łukasz Wawrynkiewicz
Exhibition charts printout
PROGRAF. Drukarnia Cyfrowa
CATALOGUE
Catalogue draft
Joanna Maciejewska, Dorota Katner
Collaboration
Radosław Katowicz, Urszula Ścibor-Rylska, Urszula Lipińska
Graphical desing
Łukasz Wawrynkiewicz
Masterplans elaboration
Sebastian Tabędzki
Translation into English
Radosław Katowicz
(except: the Polish History Museum section – descriptive texts in English thanks to the courtesy of the Polish History Museum;
EUROPAN 10 section; page 43; pages 145 and 146; page 148).
Setting and make up
Poligraffitti
Published by
Centrum ŁOWICKA, 2000 copies
Printed by
OMIKRON Sp. z o.o.
The descriptive texts in this catalogue are based on materials sent by architectural studios and have been worked out by LOWICKA Centre.
Lowicka Centre wishes to thank to: KRAJOBRAZ-WARSZAWSKI Architectural and Urban Planning Magazine for all descriptive texts about EUROPAN 10 winning
entries and The Polish Modern Art Foundation for descriptive text in English on page 146.
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