Warszawa Powiśle railway station
Romanowicz, Arseniusz; Szymaniak, Piotr
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Warszawa Powiśle
Date
1955Description
Lower level entrance with covered walkway (left) up to the upper tracks; Located in the district of Powiśle stretching between Aleje Jerozolimskie near Rondo Charles'a de Gaulle'a (high-level entrance) and the intersection of Aleja 3 Maja and ul. Kruczkowskiego (low-level entrance). The station sits on a rail embankment extending from the terrace of the Vistula river on which the city centre is built, ending at its western side with the entrance to the Cross-City tunnel. The station has two side platforms flanking the suburban tracks of the Warsaw Cross-City Line used by the regional trains run by Koleje Mazowieckie and Szybka Kolej Miejska. The station building was designed by Arseniusz Romanowicz and Piotr Szymaniak in 1955. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/2/2014)
Type of Work
railroad stationSubject
architecture, Transportation, trains, busses, Twentieth century, Modernist
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