Project name: Office and retail building Nowy Świat 2.0
Architect’ Firm: AMC – Andrzej M. Chołdzyński
Website: http://www.amcholdzynski.pl/
Contact e-mail: amc.sekretariat@amcholdzynski.pl/
Lead Architects: architekt Andrzej M. Chołdzyński (main designer), Bogumił Kidziak, Szymon Schmeidel,
Tomasz Dargel, Maciej Kolek, Daniel Ciesielski, Joanna Arent, Jacek Hawrylak, Magda Macioszczyk, Beata
Świeboda - Budzyńska
Project location: Nowy Świat 6/12, 00-400 Warsaw, Poland
Completion Year: 2015
Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 1084 m2
Photo credits: Piotr Krajewski
Photographer’s website: http://pkrajewski.pl
Other participants:
Client: Centrum Bankowo – Finansowe „Nowy Świat”
Structural design: BWL – Projekt
General contractor: KARMAR
Nowy Świat 2.0 office and services building, located between the former headquarters of the Polish
Communist Party House (now: The Banking and Financial Center office building) and Warsaw Stock
Exchange buildings, adjoins a nineteenth-century tenement house. The five floors represent more than 4100
sq. meters of office and ca. 2000 sq. meters of retail space. The ground floor, the mezzanine and -1 level are
occupied by retail stores. On the top level there is a terrace with a view on Three Crosses Square and The
Na Książęcem Park.
The idea was to create an architectural keystone between existing buildings and at the same time a
kind of place that opens the Royal Route to the 18th Century Na Książęcem Park, designed by Szymon
Bogumił Zug.
Given that the former headquarters of the Polish Communist Party House is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places, the new building refrains from tampering with the integrity of its structure and
facades. The buildings are connected through the underground floor. Nowy Świat 2.0 tries to combine the
rich tectonics of the facades of neighboring buildings in an ethereal and abstract way. In opposition to the
monumental and rectangular composition of the two buildings, the new building brings into the area of their
mutual relations a smooth, built on a wide arch, east-west facade, which ends in oval corners.
The project has the ambition of enriching the Royal Route with the perpendicular, sculptural and expressive
zone that opens The Royal Road to The Na Książęcem Park. The building transforms the place recognised
as abandoned and peripheral into a recognizable and self-identified space. The architectural intentions of the
project materialize in minimalist, abstract matter using materials such as raw reinforced concrete, glass, Cor-
Ten steel, natural stone.
The building along with the former Party House forms an oval city square which brings back this
quarter to Warsaw not only in symbolic but also in functional and social spheres.