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Once a cultural hub for Warsaw’s A-listers, Empik building is placed on Register of Monuments for its rich history and “significant artistic values”

Featuring a subterranean dance floor for jazz fans, a cocktail bar, international press, and a first floor terrace that would allow guests to enjoy the summer breeze blowing in from the riverfront, it became a place of legend, with its sumptuous marble and chrome interiors attracting the city’s A-list. Kalbar/TFN/warszawa1939.pl/public domain

Featuring a subterranean dance floor for jazz fans, a cocktail bar, international press, and a first floor terrace that would allow guests to enjoy the summer breeze blowing in from the riverfront, it became a place of legend, with its sumptuous marble and chrome interiors attracting the city’s A-list.

Warsaw office building sold in largest regional deal this year

Skanska, a real estate and construction group, has sold an office building in Warsaw for EUR 285 million, the largest sale in the office sector in Central Europe in 2021.

New interactive map shows off Warsaw architecture of the 1990s

Created by Aleksandra Stępień-Dąbrowska, Alicja Gzowska and photographer Maciej Leszczełowski from ARCHIwum Warszawy lat 90, the map offers an inventory of over 380 buildings.

Wrocław’s stunning Concordia Design crowned ‘Building of the Year’ by leading architecture portal

The project, which beat off competition from over 75 other international nominees including Axel Springer’s Berlin campus, Le Monde’s Paris HQ and the Summers Office Building in Buenos Aires, was chosen after nearly 200,000 votes were cast in a public poll organized by prestigious platform ArchDaily.

Huge ‘newspaper mural’ aims to encourage support for restaurants

Designed to look like a page of advertisements in a newspaper, with individual boxes advertising different food places around the capital, the mural from Good Looking Studio takes up the whole side of a building.

Delightful ‘little corset’ tiles showcase rescued fragments of Warsaw architecture

The fragments offer precious examples of the capital’s architecture over the centuries through details from door handles to tiles.

House of Beer: fishing fan builds lakeside eco-house from recycled booze bottles

Built almost entirely from empty wine and beer bottles, the house in Jasło has been christened KARP and will be used by local fishermen.

Living on the edge: uncertainty clouds the future of Warsaw landmark building now up for sale

Spectacular and grandiose in design, Literacka 7 was never finished and has stood empty all its life.

Cop that: Silesian Spiderman arrested in bid to conquer Paris’s second tallest skyscraper

VIDEO: Having previously scaled Warsaw’s Marriott Hotel and a string of other urban international landmarks, Marcin Banot was interrupted by emergency workers who brought a premature end to his latest vertical adventure.

Kielce’s famed “UFO” bus station glitters once again following overhaul

One of the most distinctive buildings born of Poland’s communist era, the bus station has become something of a tourist attraction.

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