Warsaw, Grey Villa
2026-02-04
The villa was rebuilt after World War II, designed by Bronisław Brochwicz-Rogoyski and built in Powiśle in 1905. Until the war, it served as residential and administrative premises for the city’s water supply and sewage services, and after the war it was the seat of several public institutions. During the construction of the University of Warsaw Library, the villa underwent a thorough modernisation and postmodern reconstruction according to a design by Andrzej Kiciński. As a result, the early 20th-century Neo-Romanesque building was given steel structures, a glass tower and a partially glazed high-tech roof at the end of the century. Kiciński’s design received several architectural awards, including the European Architectural Award THE GREEN POINT (1998), the MSWiA award, the title of Modernisation of the Year 1998, and the architect himself received the most prestigious Polish architectural award – the SARP Honorary Award. Officially, the Grey Villa is now the Cezary Berezowski Collegium Iuridicum IV. Address: 47 Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie Street.

