The Nowogrodzka site in downtown Warsaw is a landmark mixed-use development project designed to reshape the urban fabric and realize the vision of a "Garden City." The project, planned for phased completion over eight years, focuses on the comprehensive regeneration and activation of a historic district.
Originally a 19th-century residential and factory district, the area lost its original urban fabric following WWII bombings and subsequent disparate planning interventions, resulting in fragmented spaces and the loss of green areas to parking under traffic pressure. The project aims to create a vibrant urban social hub through a highly permeable central green square as its core strategy, reconnecting the surrounding area.
The tower cluster will effectively bridge the skyline gap between Warsaw's "Eastern Wall" and the Western Business District, while embracing historic landmarks like the Palace of Culture and Science. The new structures echo the massing of the historic Polish Telecommunications Building and are strategically arranged for optimal daylighting and spatial efficiency. Avoiding a single monolithic volume, the plan places a new square at the heart of functionally diverse towers, incorporating historic preservation, office, residential, hotel, and commercial functions.
A multi-layered landscape system - from ground-level greenspaces to rooftop gardens - is key to realizing the "Garden City" concept. The central square gathers and redirects pedestrian flow, activating all public zones. Targeting LEED Platinum certification, the project employs extensive sustainable strategies including passive design, high-performance glazing, rainwater harvesting, and solar panels.
