Hotel Warszawa (Warsaw)

Poland / Mazowieckie / Warsaw / Powstańców Warszawy Square, 9
 hotel, Art Deco (architecture), 1953_construction, Stalinist (architecture), 1933_construction
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Built from 1931-1933 as the Polish headquarters of England's Prudential Insurance, it was the tallest building in Poland and the second tallest in Europe at the time. An experimental television antenna erected atop the tower in 1937 became the mast from which a Polish flag was briefly flown during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in 1944.

Badly damaged in WWII, the building was cheaply rebuilt in a more neo-classical style as a hotel and opened in 1954 as the Hotel Warszawa until it closed in 2002. The building sat vacant for years, before it was controversially gutted and rebuilt to reflect its original design and reopened as a hotel in 2018.

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See Emporis link for more photos:

www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=prudential-warsaw-poland
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential,_Warsaw
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Coordinates:   52°14'8"N   21°0'44"E
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