Focus Filtrowa building with facade winter garden over-looking the park Pole Mokotowskie.
Warsaw Trade Tower. Presently the second highest building i Warsaw at 208 m.
Warsaw trade tower again, with the IPN building in the foreground.
Secret rocket test ramp at Warsaw Trade Tower.
The undulating glass roof covering the courtyard of Złote Tarasy.
Another view of the roof.
The cool reflectors to the indoor lamps. The glass roof and Palace of culture and science in the background.
The top of the office tower at Złote Tarasy (105m) seen through the mall window. The glass ceiling is seen as a reflection.
Złote Tarasy during construction.
The PASTA building. This was the highest building in Warsaw when it was completed in 1910. During the Warsaw uprising the building, which served as telecummunications centre, was taken by the home army after fierce fighting. The sign on the roof is the symbol of the uprising and the building today houses memorial institutions to the uprising and the home army.
At Plac Konstytucji we find massive stone buildings build just after the war in socialist realist style.
More collonades and stone, stone, stone...
Cool lamp posts at Plac Konstytucji.
Mighty workers adorn the façades in true socialist realism fashion.
Also women workers are seen.
A real man has real tools!
But take a step behind the proud workers and the buildings look less noble.
The Warsaw university library is a unique building that blends in to a garden encapsulating the library in green. The library is also much more than only books housing shops, restaurants and a bowling alley.
The green dome on the roof of the library.
Courtyard at the Warsaw university library.
A walking bridge across the roof of the library.
In the Powisle district, once a hide-out for the poor of Warsaw, a radical reconstruction is taking place. Next to the University library a host of new fancy apartment buildings are being erected. But some of the older buildings still hang in there.
A school in Powisle that has long awaited renovation.
Sir Norman Foster's hyper-modern Metropolitan building has won a heap of awards. It lies as fat donut between Plac Pilsudskiego and Teatr Wielki.
The stone slabs covering the facade of the Metropolitan are actually painted aluminium.
A view of Metropolitan from Plac Pilsudskiego.
Mariensztat, just below Krakowskie Przedmiejscie, has an almost small-town, calm feeling with cobble stone streets and appealing atmosphere. This neo-classicist building with its conspicuous colonnade is a place I would like to live in.
The had a bit of humour when they redesignated this building after the fall of socialism. Now the Warsaw bank and finance centre and the stock exchange...
...was previously the Party headquarters.
This is a typical example of socialist monumentalism. Big, impressive, but utterly soulless. This is the national museum.
The start of the Poniatowski bridge.
The bridge cuts straight through the Powisle district before reaching across the river to Praga.
Under one part of the brige a shopping centre is tucked in under the vaults
but on the other side the work only started. These skeletons have been standing for many years abondoned to the street artists.
These strange little garages, without a road to them are opposite the bridge.
One of the supports.
Hidden under the brige is also the Warszawa Powisle trainstation
and the cafe "Under the bridge".
In powisle the old industrial buildings are beeing transformed into offices
and swank apartment complexes.
But som of the old machinery still remains.
A hotel, typical for its time.
These structures, part of the old Warsaw Russian defence, rings Warsaw.
The Olympic centre, and not the Audi centre as I first thought. But what's the deal with the Ikaros in front.
A group of very cool apartment blocks are located along Wislastrada close to Torwar.
The angular balkonies make for very nice geometric photos.
Like this
and this
Some of the viaducts are in bad need of renovation.
