Palace of Culture and Science (Warsaw)

Poland / Mazowieckie / Warsaw / Parade Square, 1
 high-rise, donated / gifted object, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, 1955_construction, Stalinist (architecture), cultural center / centre
Location: Plac Defilad 1, Warszawa, Poland
Date of construction start up: 2 May 1952
Date of final construction works: the year of 1955

Construction materials: stone, limestone
Altitude: 230,68 m – up to the top of the spire
167,68 m – to the base of the spire
Area: 123 084 m2 (1 324 876 ft2)
Cubic Capacity: 817 000 m3 (28 840 100 ft3)
Architect: Lew Rudniew
1. The highest building in , 42 floors. Viewing Platform on the 30th floor at the altitude of 114 m.
2. There are 3288 rooms in the Palace.
3. The Skyscraper is erected as a gift of Soviet Nation for
4. Joseph Stalin is the author of the concept.
5. Architect L. W. Rudniew wants the sky-scraper to incarnate features of the Polish national style. In order to do this he tours well-known Polish cities and towns like Kraków, Chełm, Zamość finding out about Polish architecture.
6. Rudniew and his team are a steam engine of projects. The Polish select a 120 m building design, since their ambition exceeds that level it results in building much bigger edifice.
7. 3,500 Russian workers are employed at the construction site. There is a housing estate built for them together with facilities like: cinema, cafeteria, public club and swimming pool.
8. There are 16 fatal accidents among Russians working at the construction. The year of 1956 starts a series of suicidal jumps from the sightseeing terrace on the 30 storey initiated by a French man. Seven Poles follow him. Those incidents cause installation of metal grid on the sightseeing terrace.
9. On the New Year’s Eve of 2000 the biggest tower clock is unveiled on top of the Palace of Culture, its 4 dials are of 6 m long diameter each. This Millenium Clock becomes also the highest tower clock in the world.
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In this building

  1. Poczta
  2. Bar
  3. Panorama widokowa
  4. Teatr
  5. Basen kąpielowy
  6. Oddzialy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
  7. Muzeum Ewolucji
  8. Скульптура «Волога жінка»
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  1. Klub 55
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
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Coordinates:   52°13'54"N   21°0'22"E

Comments

  • Ostatnie lata takiego widoku. Paśmy oczy... Plany rozbiórki się uskuteczniły:(wpisać tu datę)[.....]
  • Wonderful view from the terrace on the top.
  • The PKiN is one of the uliest bildings in warsaw. Still, it has the best view. It's the one place where you can see warsaw without the PKiN in the picture.
  • If you want to know ruins of what was the Palace erected on: http://www.warszawa1939.pl/plan_foto.php?kod=sosnowa
  • I actually like this building. Then again, I kind of am into Stalinist neo-Gothic architecture.
  • Gloomy legacy of soviet communism. Now independent Poland must destroy PKiN and build Palace of Democracy and Tolerance instead of it.
  • paul gość: Give us the money for it and we will do it. To build new - is easy and not expensive. To destroy PKiN - it is too expensive.
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