Warszawa, Poland

after the ghetto uprising and the warsaw uprising, the city was practically leveled. elsewhere in europe, this may have been a great opportunity to re-build a modern, attractive capital; in poland, hideous cemet-block housing was the solution.










1: the culture forum (aka stalin's birthday cake) 2: communist statue (similar to one in budapest's statue park) 3: andy and the pink reindeer 4: puzzling crosswalks 5/6: bridge across the vistula river 7: textile factory converted into artist workshops, galleries, and a cafe-bar with boiler left intact 8/9: modern mall beside the central train station 10: escalators in the mall