designers' task force
project description
The City-on-Vistula plays by its own rules. Tropism of development knows not reverence for transitory creations of minds and hands of the Warsaw inhabitants. Precious buildings get torn down, like those of the Moskwa cinema, pavilion of Chemia or the "Praha" cinema.
project facts
"Architectural recycling" is Centrala's solution: the building of the PKO bank - "Rotunda" - serves here as the example of totem; a fraction of urban space endowed with spiritual significance by Warsawers. In another words: worth saving - there already is a skyscraper designed to take "Rotunda's" place...
pozdrowienia dla Adama!
authors
Krzysztof Banaszewski
Małgorzata Kuciewicz
Jan Strumiłło
Jakub Szczęsny
spring 2003
