• • More provocation than proposal, this idea by geographer Marek Pieniążek, architect and critic Gzregorz Piątek and artist Jan Dziaczkowski, is to use the rubbish and construction rubble from Warsaw to pile up a new range of Tatra-type mountains around the city. It would, say its authors, simultaneously solve urban sprawl, recycle city waste, attract tourists, raise property values and create attractive local recreational opportunities. Mountains for Warsaw is one of the Ekspektatywa series of speculations on future scenarios – each commissioned from an interdisciplinary team of artists, architects and scientists by the cultural Foundation Bęc Zmiana.
    
    Using the hyped language of Futurist manifestos – “a grand project – sublime and beautiful as the Pyramids” – this proposal not only cleverly critiques the rudderless urban planning of Warsaw, but also provides an interesting inversion of the modern mania to build “icons” in cities as focuses for regeneration. Instead of a prominent new cultural building in the centre, here it’s a dramatic natural feature at the periphery that is proposed. p (rgw)

     

    Mountains for Warsaw

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  Image/Collage: © Janek Dziaczkowski, courtesy Fundacja Bęc Zmiana

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Poland
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Teatr Szekspirowski

  Gdańsk

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Muzeum Śląskie

  Katowice

  Text: Roman Rutkowski
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Bread and Circuses

  Iconic architecture in post-communist Poland

  Text: Agata Pyzik
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Light Relief

  Warsaw's neon heritage

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Shipyard

  Michał Szlaga's loving, melancholic portrait of Gdańsk

  Text: Michał Szlaga
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Mountains for Warsaw

  Imaginative urban waste re-use

  Text: Rob Wilson
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Filharmonia Szczecin

  Szczecin

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Akademia Sztuk Pięknych

  Wrocław

  Text: Łukasz Wojciechowski
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Manhattan on the Odra

  Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak’s flats in Wrocław

  Text: Rob Wilson
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  We, the Citizens

  The rise of the Polish urban movements

  Text: Igor Stokfiszewski
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

  Kraków

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Stadion Miejski

  Wrocław

  Text: Łukasz Wojciechowski
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  The Eighth Sister

  Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science: white elephant or national treasure?

  Text: Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Billboard Brutal

  The longest billboard in Poland

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Studio Rygalik’s

  Focus on Polish design

  Text: Studio Rygalik
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXI. Pimp my Warsaw

  Text: Klaus
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