Museum
@. Pańska 3
architekt. Marian Kuźniara and Czesław Wegner
finished. 1966
It is difficult to find information regarding the architecture of the present location of the MOMA Warsaw because the big news is the design of a new museum by Swiss architect Christian Kerez (to take the place of the quanset-like structure in front of the Palace of Culture). However I think that the present site is great. Neighboring the snobby Intercontinental hotel and Zlote Tarasy, the museum is on the ground floor of a Soviet-era apartment building. The space is small but edgy; a real reflection of the potential hidden in Warsaw. There's fantastic tile floors, concrete pilars and an azure staircase that leads upstairs to a lounge complete with an earthy mosaic (a period piece, really). Outside there's a well proportioned public space that can act as an extension of the gallery. I'm sure the new museum building will be beautiful and it will do the urban fabric of the city center a world of good but it's dissapointing to see good architectural spaces being overlookeded in the quest for what is shiny and new.
ps. And I can spend hours in the bookstore!
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