Warsaw | Warszawa

[Koniaczeq]

Originally Posted by Pan_Stanislav

Najlepszy wiezowiec w Ewropie 8]

dobra, dobra już sie nie podlizuj

[VelesHomais]

ja nie podlizuju.. tak myslu

[AdamT]

Originally Posted by Van der Rohe

Take it easy ;-) As a city Warsaw will never beat London or Paris...

Not tomorrow but why not in the future one day. Or you know, atleast be at the same level. Sounds possible to me. Only people's minds can stop it. Of course this building cannot solely change everything. But it is a step in the right direction Keep on steppin'

[delfin_pl]

by Tomasz Janik

[Tomesh]

wow great aerial shot, cheers delfin for sharing.
Its still small and cozy, simple yet great looking and thats whats so good about it now!!! I enjoy these types of airports much more than say Frankfurt, Heathrow
I mean one can build totally wrong and make an airport a maze but this is obviously not the case !!!

[Van der Rohe]

[MAR_tm]

by daauyi



and little update by markus1234

[VelesHomais]

omg.... After this one is completed, - Warsaw has the best looking skyline in Europe.

[wholagun]

just amazing.

I can't wait for construction to begin, I wish it would start now and put me out of my misery.

It's in such a good location and it just fits so well into the Warsaw skyline.

[mic of Orion]

great arieal photo, very nice

[polskaforever]

Originally Posted by equivoque

WARSAW downtown ORCO/Libeskind Residential Tower + other planned skyscrapers in the near future (simulation by markus1234):

what are the chances of the proposed towers to start construction someday?

[SoboleuS]

Centrum Zelazna - already U/C
Libeskind Tower - almost 100% (next year)
Centrum Grzybowska apartments - 100% (next year)
Centrum Grzybowska office tower - almost 100% (next year)
Hotel System - 100% (next year probably)
Walicow Tower - big chances (maybe next year)
Shalom Tower - big chances (date unknown)

The future of other planned towers in unknown.

[DocentX]

Libeskind to Build Warsaw Tower

The Associated Press

Tuesday, September 20, 2005


The 45-story apartment tower will be built in Warsaw's business district

WARSAW -- Polish-born American architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of Berlin's landmark Jewish Museum and the master plan for New York's Ground Zero, has designed a 45-story apartment tower to be built in downtown Warsaw , a city spokesman said Friday.

When finished, Libeskind's sweeping glass tower is expected to rise to 192 meters, just a little short of the city's Stalin-era landmark and tallest building, the Palace of Culture.

Libeskind presented his plans to city officials on Thursday in Warsaw, where they were positively received, Warsaw chief architect Michal Borowski said.

Borowski added that city hall was enthusiastic about building a residential tower in Warsaw's growing downtown business district.

By doing so, Borowski said, Warsaw "can avoid a central business district that is dark at night, where people don't live."

Pending final approval of the design, construction of the building is expected to start next year and finish in 2008, said Marcin Roszkowski, a spokesman for city hall.

Libeskind envisions restaurants, cafes and art galleries at ground level, with apartments filling the rest.

Earlier this year, a design by Libeskind for a planned museum on Jewish history in Warsaw was rejected in favor of an austere design by a Finnish team of architects.

Since communism's end in 1989, the Polish capital has been shaking off its communist architectural past and its ubiquitous bloc architecture, and now hosts a growing skyline of modern glass towers centered around the Palace of Culture.

The landmark was a "gift" from the Soviet Union in 1955.


Libeskind, 59, was born to Holocaust survivors in the central Polish city of Lodz and became a U.S. citizen in 1965.

[DocentX]

by @rcube :

[DocentX]

photos by @rcube :

-renovation of the former 'Forum' hotel




by @REDHATT



-'Zlote Tarasy'





-'Rondo 1'






-'Hilton' hotel

by @rcube



by @SoboleuS



by @kafarek



- Terminal 2 of Warsaw airport :

[devinci]

Very interesting desgin, i like it.

Libeskind is on a role! In today's Toronto Star it says that a libeskind designed tower has been "conditionally recommended its approval." Looks like theres a pretty good chance of this being built in TO near the lake:

[devinci]

btw...whats the idea behind tower #2 from equivoque's post? Shalom tower?? Doesn't shalom mean hello or greetings in hebrew?

[_keen_]

Almost 'la defense' right here ^ !

[VelesHomais]

^ I was wondering about that too.

[Blank]

Originally Posted by Jacenty

btw...whats the idea behind tower #2 from equivoque's post? Shalom tower?? Doesn't shalom mean hello or greetings in hebrew?

IIRC it means "peace", but it's used as a greeting. It's labeled like that because the investor is the "Shalom Foundation", a foundation for promoting Polish-Jewish culture.

Here is the thread on the Polish forum: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=257492