architect. Lew Rudniew
finished. 1955
The Palace of Culture took the place of 120 apartment buildings and a network of small city blocks. While the majority of the infrastructure on site was heavily damaged, the urban fabric of the city could have been rebuilt. Instead a crew of 3500 Russian workers arrived in Warsaw, lived in their own quarter with a separate movie theater, canteen and swimming pool, and constructed a 220m tall symbol of Russian control, which to this day remains the tallest building in Poland. To say that the Palace of Culture evoked strong emotions is putting it lightly.
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