WARSAW - Boomtown

[stupps]

Hi, I'm doing a study on how warsaw residential architecture has changed since the WW2. Anyone got any idea where I could find legislation for the governments with regard to this? Any areas which are good to look at as well? I know Zoliborz has a lot of nice stuff.

[Grumpy]

Is it true about the 350m proposal in Warsaw ?

[Jaroslaw]

Originally Posted by stupps

Hi, I'm doing a study on how warsaw residential architecture has changed since the WW2. Anyone got any idea where I could find legislation for the governments with regard to this? Any areas which are good to look at as well? I know Zoliborz has a lot of nice stuff.

You'll have a hard time without Polish... the crucial change in Warsaw since the war has been an ambitious attempt to move away from the dark and cramped tenement houses that filled prewar Warsaw. The streets were broadened, and elements of Le Corbusier's "towers in a park" idea were adopted. All apartments need to be no closer than 12 meters from another building, and must get a certain amount of sunlight each day. Most apartment towers are long and thin, with several stairwells, allowing apartments to have north-south or east-west exposures. No apartments have only a north exposure, since that means they would have no sunlight. Before the war no one bothered much with this kind of stuff. However, "Commieblocks" built after the war, especially after the 1960s, were often shoddy and grim, and the urban infrastructure around them was often neglected, since that didn't count in fulfilling the all-important, politically decided housing supply goals.

Many of the rules concerning light and air have been kept since 1990, but there has been a return to a more traditional streetwall architecture, and prefab construction is no longer used. Browse around "Forum Polskich Wiezowcow" on ssc, particularly see the "Miasteczko Wilanow" thread in "Warszawa" for new architecture; you can also find a lot of informative Warsaw pics under "Wiezowce & Skylines."

[ConcreteJungle]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Is it true about the 350m proposal in Warsaw ?

Well, yes and no. It is an early stage, but the city council does not seem to oppose and the investors seem credible. Currently they're bulding the Libeskind's tower on a plot adjacent to the proposed one. The president of Warsaw even went as far as to say that we should build something higher than the Palace of Culture.

See this for more details (well, its in Polish, but some sort of a general overview can be found there):

http://www.bryla.pl/bryla/1,85301,5032281.html

[user123]

It's 100m higher than Lilium Tower but not much innovating

[morka]

Come on, I just can’t believe they would say yes to this idea! The works would paralyze half of the city, just next to this Mariott tower there is one of the busiest crossroads in Warsaw. And there would be a need to close it first and, secondly, completely rebuild it just to free some place for the tower. If the government wants to have this Euro 2012 in our capital, they won’t be as stupid to let this being boiled now and not in the next 5 years!

[Swede]

^What exactly are you refering to? and why did you post in two threads?

[morka]

God, sorry I've mistaken places. Forget my post, please. But still, I'dont'belive they will manage to finish it before Euro 2012

[DocentX]

The National Stadium








Legia Warsaw stadium



Metro - second line - construction should start soon - central part of the second line shall be ready in 2013/2014





First line + planned second line (on the right Warsaw metro plans before the second world war) :




Revitalization of Vistula bulevars











Zebra Tower







Plac Unii - construction of the tower should start at the begining of 2010










Trio apartments





Zelazna center








Dom development



Platinium Towers













Museum of Contemporary Art - final project



Museum of Polish Jews









Copernicus Center - modern museum of science









Chopin museum and Chopin Center










The National Temple of Divine Providence
















Warszawa Zachodnia (Warsaw West) train station - should be ready in 2012







Warszawa Wschodnia (Warsaw East) train station - should be ready in 2012







Warsaw Stadium train station (near the Euro 2012 Stadium ) - should be ready in 2012





Warsaw Okecie airport underground train terminal - should be ready in 2012



Warsaw Powisle train station - recently revitalized







Warsaw Ochota train station - recently revitalized



Crown Square





Eko Park





Menolly





Renovation of the older towers



Atelier residence





Wolf Marszalkowska







Various investments - Sluzewiec office district

Horizon Plaza





Platinium Business Park





Park Postepu





Trinity Park III





Adgar Plaza





Marynarska Point





New City








Triton Park



Panska apartments





Vector



Catalina Office building



Prosta Tower





Europark Sobieski





Wolf Bracka





Miasteczko Wilanow











New project for Norblin Factory





New hotel near the airport





New trains for Warsaw



New trams for Warsaw





Renovation of W-Z artery





Some examples of roads investments

Home Army Road



Northern Bridge - under construction

[Ciemny]

All these projects look amazing....I wass born in Poland and go back there every so often....Live in Ottawa Canada......which makes me want to cry looking at how this city is.

[cityguy]

Time for a Warsaw update,is the economy getting any better in Poland?

[Radster]

Originally Posted by cityguy

Time for a Warsaw update,is the economy getting any better in Poland?

Poland was one of the few EU nations which were not affected much by the economic crisis.

Anyway, an update would be nice, I agree. I also agree that living in Ottawa is frustrating due to the lack of interesting architectural developments. Luckily for me, I am off to Poland (Wroclaw & Warsaw) in less than 2 weeks, can't wait to see whats happening there in person, as it has been about 4 years since I last went to Poland!

[Milwaukee City]

This makes me want to move to Warsaw even more!

[hammersklavier]

Wow, what beautiful projects! Warsaw is definitely booming!

But something else interests me. Poland, like Germany, has its population relatively well spread out across the major metros (Gdansk, Lodz, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Katowice) rather than concentrated into one metro (i.e. Paris in France rising a head above Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse, etc.). How is Poland dealing with modernizing in the post-communist era a nation that is so widely populated?

P.S. Poland, in particular, is (I think) the fastest-growing state in the EU. The Polish literary scene is the best in the world right now, and this nation rises heads above the rest of the Slavic bloc in terms of the weight it can throw around, something which I expect will only increase in the future. Go Poland!

[Swede]

Those new commuter trains remind me of stockohlm's latest trains. Same product family? The new trams looks friggin' sweet too. Hopefully we'll see something similar in Sthlm soon

[look]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

Wow, what beautiful projects! Warsaw is definitely booming!

But something else interests me. Poland, like Germany, has its population relatively well spread out across the major metros (Gdansk, Lodz, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Katowice) rather than concentrated into one metro (i.e. Paris in France rising a head above Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse, etc.). How is Poland dealing with modernizing in the post-communist era a nation that is so widely populated?

Why should spreading of population be a bad thing? I thought that it's rather too much concentration of people which causes problems and uneven development of country, with overcrowded megacities drawing away best people from underdeveloped provinces. Situation like in Poland or Germany, where every regin has strog regional capital is better for even development.

The Polish literary scene is the best in the world right now, and this nation rises heads above the rest of the Slavic bloc in terms of the weight it can throw around, something which I expect will only increase in the future. Go Poland!

Interesting, I din't know polish culture is valued so high abroad. Is this only Your personal opinion or is it shared by other people you know?

[HighTowerPA]

National Stadium (Stadion Narodowy), Warsaw, Poland
Design Build Network

http://www.designbuild-network.com/p...warsaw-poland/

The National Stadium is the largest stadium in Poland and won the World Stadium Award 2012 from the World Stadium Congress. It was designed by a group of architects including Von Gerkan Marg and Partners, JSK Architects and Schlaich Bergermann and Partners.

[AUTO]

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[Cyro]

It's incredible this tread hasn't been updated in ages. I haven't been back to Warszawa in years but the changes are incredible.

[mville1]

I was in Poland for only about a week back in May and I was thoroughly impressed. It's definitely on my list of places to revisit. I spent three days in Warsaw and the amount of construction and rehab projects I stumbled upon was tremendous. I did unintentionally shoot some photos of a few of the major projects going on, but they're probably well past being outdated.