2026-02-04
The first Sheraton hotel in Poland, currently one of only two (along with the one in Krakow) with “Grand” in its name, offering the chain’s highest category of services. Built between 1994 and 1996, it was designed by Tadeusz Spychała Read more…
This project became an iconic turn-of-the-century office building in Poland and set the standard for Class A buildings. Built between 1998 and 2001, the Focus building was designed by Kuryłowicz & Associates near Pole Mokotowskie. The designers envisioned it as Read more…
A distinctive building on the corner of Twarda and Sienna Streets in Warsaw, with two circular bay windows protruding above the roofline and culminating in openwork concrete pseudodomes. The infill, constructed in 1991-1992, was designed by Andrzej Kiciński. Several years Read more…
The skyscraper was built between 2000 and 2003, designed by Wojciech Kluk and his team from the Pro-Arte Architects’ Cooperative. It has 18 floors, the first six of which are used for television production. The building’s roof houses a helipad. Read more…
This villa in Saska Kępa was built in 1993 according to a 1986 design by Jarosław Malinowski. The house is a three-segment terraced house in a palatial style with three independent numbers (24, 26, and 28). It has a total Read more…
The “Kaskada” Banking and Office Center on Jana Pawła II Avenue was built between 1996 and 1998, designed by Jerzy Skrzypczak and Jerzy Janczak (J&J Architecture Design Office), which received the Second Degree Award from the Ministry of Interior and Read more…
Scheduled for demolition and replacement with a taller skyscraper, this office building at Rondo ONZ in Warsaw was built between 1995 and 1997, designed by Miljenko Dumenčić and Mirosław Kartowicz for the Austrian company Ilbau. It has 22 floors above Read more…
The church, whose plan for its implementation was approved by the Four-Year Sejm in 1791 as the Temple of the Supreme Providence – a place of worship encompassing all religions, of a syncretic and Masonic nature, a votive offering of Read more…
A blue and white U-shaped residential complex on the corner of Łucka and Żelazna streets in Warsaw. Built between 1996 and 1998, it was designed by Stefan Wrona, Krzysztof Kakowski, Jacek Cybis, and Robert Dałek. The expansive building, comprising numbers Read more…
One of the most interesting office buildings designed by the “architect of nascent capitalism” in Poland, Stefan Kuryłowicz (1949-2011). It was built on a narrow plot on Nowogrodzka Street in Warsaw between 1996 and 1998. It is distinguished by its Read more…
Children like it. Adults, not so much. In 2021, the building was included in a publication by the Culture.pl website, listing “monstrosities” that are destroying the landscape. In 2007, when preparations for the investment were underway, the deputy mayor of Read more…
Three office buildings: Neptun (currently the seat of the Institute of National Remembrance), Syriusz, and Orion, forming part of the Mokotów Business Park office complex. Built between 1996 and 1999, designed by JEMS Architekci, on the post-industrial site of the Read more…
An office building serving media functions, home to TVN, TVN24, and other stations within the Polish arm of Warner Bros. Discovery. Built between 2000 and 2003, it was designed by the Irish studio Wejchert Architects, in collaboration with the Warsaw-based Read more…
This office building on Nowogrodzka Street in Warsaw was designed by Jacek Jedynak and Witold Kalinowski. It was constructed in 1999-2000 to Class A office standards. It has nine floors above ground and three underground. The building’s distinctive façade encloses Read more…
A skyscraper on Aleje Jerozolimskie in Warsaw, built and designed by the controversial Turkish businessman Vahap Toy (later expelled from Poland) between 1996 and 1999. Known as the “toi-toi,” it is also due to the building’s exterior, postmodern aesthetic reminiscent Read more…
The headquarters of the media corporation Agora S.A., built according to a design by JEMS Architekci, selected in the largest architectural competition organized by a private investor in Poland in the 1990s. The building was constructed between 2000 and 2002 Read more…
The church in Warsaw’s Ursynów district, built between 1982 and 1989, was designed by Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski. The postmodern church’s facade is Baroque in form, and its side buttresses are Gothic in style. The main decorative element of Read more…
The center of the Polish capital. A complex of several buildings, including the 105-meter-high Skylight skyscraper, a multiplex cinema, and a shopping mall covered with a distinctive, undulating glass roof, covering over 10,000 square meters and weighing 1,400 tons. The Read more…
Unconventional and playful – this is how Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, head of the team responsible for the design of the Royal Netherlands Embassy building on Kawalerii Street in Warsaw, described his design brief. Less obvious seems his declaration Read more…
This postmodern, monumental building in Warsaw’s Praga district was built between 1984 and 1993, according to a design by a group of architects including Wojciech Hermanowicz, Tomasz Lechowski, Marek Żarski, Janusz Jaworski, Elżbieta Latek-Lechowska, and Małgorzata Łukasiewicz-Traczyńska. The Praga Nursing Read more…
A model example of a gated community, heavily secured and monitored, enclosed by fences and barriers, offering costly comfort to approximately 5,000 beneficiaries of the 1990s political transformation in Poland. It encompasses a fenced area of over 21 hectares, with Read more…
A complex of terraced single-family homes in Praga-Południe, near Saska Kępa. The development was designed in 1994 by Wojciech Hermanowicz, Piotr Majewski, and Andrzej Wyszyński. The development was built between 1996 and 1997. A distinctive feature of all 60 segments, Read more…
One of Warsaw’s finest projects of the 1990s, the office building, built between 1998 and 2000, houses the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the National Depository for Securities, and the Polish Power Exchange. Its architectural design was created by Stanisław Fiszer and Read more…
A residential building in Warsaw’s Sadyba district, near Stanisław Dygat Park. The complex was built between 1993 and 1995, designed by Studio Architekt Juliusz Marcinowski. Inspired by the capital’s classicist architecture, the rectangular complex features a long courtyard and is Read more…
The Ursynów housing estate in the Kabaty district, also known as the SM Przy SGGW Housing Estate, was built between 1998 and 2000, designed by Sołtyk & Sołtyk Architekci. It consists of three buildings – the first one, a long Read more…
This irregular complex of interconnected buildings, varying in style, color, and height, with an internal courtyard on Powsińska Street was built at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s (most likely between 1989 and 1995). The complex was built by Read more…
A 13-story apartment building on Grójecka Street in Warsaw, the upper, semicircular section is residential, while the lower three floors, shaped like an irregular “U,” serve as offices. The building was designed by the Art-System studio, with Michał Kober as Read more…
The complex of buildings on Łazienkowska Street in Warsaw includes the Church of Our Lady of Jerusalem and the monastery buildings of the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem (a Catholic order founded in 1975 in France). The complex, sometimes called “Warsaw’s Read more…
It’s no coincidence that the office building on Domaniewska Street in Warsaw resembles a kettle and the letter “Z.” The glass building, characteristic of the transformation era, was built by the Swiss company Zepter, known for its household appliances. The Read more…
This residential complex at the intersection of Kochanowskiego and Rudnickiego Streets in Warsaw’s Bielany district was built between 1998 and 2002. The complex, constructed using the TBS system, was designed by architect Janusz Ogiński. Address: Gen. Klemensa Stanisława Rudnickiego 10, Read more…
The modernization of V Tower (formerly Warta Tower), ongoing since 2024, has become an example of an ecological approach to the problem of aging buildings from the 1990s that fail to meet current standards. Despite estimates that demolishing the building Read more…
The design for the complex at Krasiński Square in Warsaw was selected in a competition held in 1991. The winning concept was created by Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski, with around 20 other architects collaborating. As Budzyński recalled on Polish Read more…
An office building in the centre of the capital city on Chmielna Street, built between 1993 and 1996 as the Aktyn Business Centre. Designed by Miljenko Dumenčić and Krzysztof Kamiński in a postmodernist style. Saved from demolition and renovated between Read more…
A complex with office and commercial functions, which, in addition to offices, also houses restaurants, shops and service outlets. It was built between 1997 and 1999 according to a design by Tadeusz Spychała, the architect of many other buildings in Read more…
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 Read more…
A postmodern commercial and service complex in Białołęka, built between 1999 and 2002 on the initiative of Danuta Piontek, the ‘first lady of Polish business’ in the 1990s. Designed by Ludomir Słupeczański, architect of many residential projects for the property Read more…
One of the highest-rated buildings in Poland constructed in the 1990s, an icon of Polish postmodernism and architecture of the transition period. The library was designed in 1993 by Marek Budzyński and his collaborator Zbigniew Badowski. Construction took three years, Read more…
The building was designed by Czesław Bielecki and his studio MiD’84, which in 1997 won first prize in the competition organised by the Association of Polish Architects for the new headquarters of TVP (the preliminary design was also co-created by Read more…
One of Stefan Kuryłowicz’s first architectural designs (1985). The church, co-designed by Jakub Wacławek, was built over a period of 15 years, from 1985 (consecration of the construction site) to 2000 (consecration). It is the parish church of the Wierzbno Read more…
A monumental example of Polish postmodernism from the 1990s. It has 17 floors, including 4 underground floors, and 83,000 square metres of usable space. Described as a ‘moloch’ and a ‘block’ and criticised for its chaotic form and stylistic Read more…
‘Najntisy’, or the 1990s in the form of a palace in the capital city. This pink, postmodern, class B office building was constructed between 1989 and 1993 according to a design by Krzysztof Chwalibog, Ryszard Girtler and Jerzy Kołomycki. It Read more…
Zrealizowano w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
