Community Hub: Elektrownia Powiśle
Food Halls & Hubs 7 May 2023 0
Back Story Initially completed in 1904 to serve as Warsaw’s primary source of electricity, Elektrownia appears with frequency in local history books – contested during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising (shrapnel holes still dent the building at intervals), it later powered the Palace of Culture – to this day, the... Read more
Community Hub: Hala Koszyki
Food Halls & Hubs 7 May 2023 0
Back Story Built between 1906 and 1908, from the outset Koszyki was designed to serve as a market hall. Nationalized after WWII, by the 1960s it was attracting over 3,000 shoppers per day. By the millennium, though, business had slowed with shoppers favoring new generation supermarkets over the grubby... Read more
Browary Warszawskie
Food Halls & Hubs 8 December 2022 0
Several years in the making, the 2021 opening of Browary Warszawski has been internationally lauded as a prime example of urban regeneration… Back Story Established in 1846, the Haberbusch & Schiele brewery that once occupied this plot was the largest such plant in the entire Kingdom of Poland. Later... Read more
Community Hub: Norblin Factory
Food Halls & Hubs 6 December 2022 0
Back Story Opened on the site of a former metal factory, the scale of Norblin takes a while to sink in. A beautiful combination of new and old, it’s a photogenic example of everything that makes modern Warsaw so captivating. Representing 200-years of history, the two hectare site is... Read more
Community Hub: Centrum Praskie Koneser
Food Halls & Hubs 2 December 2022 0
Back Story Built in 1897, from its early inception Koneser was built with one duty in mind: to produce vodka. According to one story, as German troops approached the city in 1915, the decision was taken to pour the vodka into the streets so as to prevent their soldiers... Read more