Hala Koszyki
The Hala koszyki is a building complex in Warsaw downtown district . The property is located at Ulica Koszykowa 61–63 , around 200 meters west of Ulica Marszałkowska . The building was built as a market hall at the beginning of the 20th century , destroyed in the Second World War, then rebuilt, almost completely dismantled and rebuilt in the 2010s. Today, in addition to office buildings and commercial and presentation areas, there is a modern food court , which has become a popular meeting place for the Warsaw population.
history
The hall on Ulica Koszyki was the third of the modern market halls built in Warsaw at the turn of the 20th century. A few years earlier, the Mirów Halls and the facility that had been destroyed in the war and not rebuilt had been built on the former Plac Witkowskiego in Wola . These halls should, among other things, enable better organization of the trade and contribute to the increase in hygienic standards - something that was not possible with the markets that were previously held in open spaces. The expression "Koszyki" (actually: woven baskets, also: shopping baskets) referred to the city fortifications reinforced with wickerwork , which were built in the 1770s under the Grand Marshal of the Polish Crown, Stanislaw Lubomirski , and which ran around this point.
The Koszyki Hall was built on the site of the Koszyki Homestead that was previously located here. As an investor, the city had acquired two required pieces of land for 185,205 rubles . The building was built between 1906 and 1909 in Art Nouveau style based on a design by the city architect Juliusz Dzierżanowski . The market hall stood on the plan of a bracket open to the street. The main structure (77 × 27 meters), which is set back around 20 meters from the street, was given two vertical side wings (15 × 15 meters each) running towards the street. The construction work was carried out by the company Kuksz i Lüdtke , the steel structure came from the workshop of Władysław Gostyński i S-ka . The cost of construction amounted to 396,422 rubles. The sculptural decorations on the facades were designed by the sculptor Zygmunt Otto. Above the two entrances to the side wings were the head of an ox and a heraldic cartouche with a bas-relief of the Warsaw mermaid . Other sculptural details included bouquets and fruits.
The pedestrian entrances were in the side wings that extended to the sidewalk of the street. Motor vehicles could drive into the hall through the gate in the middle of the rear main body. The hall had four storeys in the front area; around 60 butchers, 10 fishmongers, around 20 smaller shops and another 150 stalls offered their goods here. The design of the sales stands was predetermined, there were water basins for the sale of live fish, meat counters were made of marble, there were several cold rooms and in the basement there were storage rooms for the dealers. An administration and residential building was built on the eastern part of the property.
The hall was opened on March 2, 1909 and was well received by the population. In the period after the First World War, all the stands were rented out. The difficult access and the limited access to parking in the narrow Ulica Koszykowa soon became apparent as a disadvantage . In the Second World War, the hall burned during the Warsaw Uprising and was largely destroyed in the process.
reconstruction
After the hall was rebuilt in 1949, the Warsaw Consumers' Cooperative WSS Społem took over management of the building. In 1950, one-story pavilions were built on the previously undeveloped inner courtyard to expand the retail space, and a bazaar was created. From 1963 the Koszyki Hall was named Spółdzielczy Dom Handlowy “Koszyki” . In 1964 the building was renovated. In the same year the last private traders left the hall; a department store was created in which various state trading companies sold their goods, including the self-service grocer “1001 drobiazgów” (1001 small items) and the textile goods store “2002 wzory” (2002 cuts). In the 1960s, around 3,000 customers visited the hall every day; high profits were made with around 50 shops. In 1965 it was entered in the register of monuments.
After the hall became less attractive as a result, there was a renewed upswing in 1990. The political change in Poland led to a partial dissolution of the WSS Społem and again private trade moved into the market hall.
New building
In 2006, the project developer Avestus Real Estate acquired the building, which had been shabby . The new owner had the hall demolished in 2009 under the supervision of the preservation authorities except for the two side wings. Avestus announced that dismantled elements of the hall construction would be refurbished and reinserted in the reconstructed building after the renovation. In the following there were problems with the implementation of the procedure agreed with the monument authority for the construction of new and the reconstruction of old buildings. Following the civil engineering phase (garage), construction activity was discontinued. In 2012 the property was acquired by the Polish real estate investor Griffin , who announced the implementation of the approved building plan. Construction resumed in October 2014.
The rebuilt hall was opened in October 2016. The restored parts of the original green steel structure of the main body as well as restored Art Nouveau elements of the wings had been reused. Preserved tiles were installed in various places. Even some historical shop signs (some in Cyrillic ) have been restored. The former market hall is now mainly used for restaurants with seats and as a food court for smaller system catering providers . A long bar counter ("Bar Koszyki") was set up in the middle. In addition, retailers offer local and organic as well as exotic foods. There are presentation and exhibition areas on the upper floors of the hall.
Building complex
View of the main hall in March 2019
One of the two flanking, modern office buildings
The forecourt open to the street in front of the main building
Details on the side wing (Syrenka, Ochsenkopf)
The access to the underground car park is through the office building
Interior of the three-story main hall today
The newly built market hall with the associated modern office buildings was developed by Griffin Real Estate and is still in the portfolio of a Griffin fund ( Globalworth ). The design for the ensemble comes from the JEMS Architekci studio . The general contractor was the Polish Erbud .
The entire facility, covering just under a hectare, consists of the historic hall with its two wing buildings facing the street, which are also the access to the main hall. The hall has a floor area of 3,500 square meters. Two office buildings, each with seven floors above ground, were erected on the outer sides of the wings. At the rear of the main hall is a large inner courtyard, which is closed off by a six-storey (third) new office building, which was built between the existing buildings (including the small Palais Rusiecki ).
The total usable area of the complex is 21,000 square meters; of this, around 11,000 square meters are used for office space and 8,000 square meters for retail and commercial space. The buildings are BREEAM certified ( Green Accreditation ). There are around 200 parking spaces for vehicles in the second basement. The total volume of the investment was 81 million euros. In addition to many other awards, the project received the 2016 President of Warsaw's Architecture Prize ( Nagroda Architektoniczna Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy za 2016 right ) as the best commercial property and also the main prize of the year ( Grand Prix 2016 ).
Web links
- Website of the operator of the property (in English)
- Hala Koszyki at Urbanity.pl (in Polish)
- Hala Koszyki / JEMS Architekci , BrickArchitecture (in English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hala Koszyki , Globalworth.com (in English)
- ↑ Hala Koszyki by Griffin Real Estate , April 21, 2017, Poland Today (in English)
- ↑ Dom Słowa Polskiego, a large newspaper printing company, was established here after the war
- ↑ Hale na placu Witkowskiego - Kalikst Witkowski , June 10, 2016, Warszawy historia ukryta (in Polish)
- ↑ a b c d Ewa Janowska, Hala Koszyki może przyćmić wszystkie galerie handlowe. Wina, sery, warzywa, produkty bio pod pięknym dachem , Metro Warszawa (in Polish)
- ↑ Hala Koszyki company in Griffin Group's hands , September 19, 2012, e-biurowce (in English)
- ↑ Konrad Klimczak, 4th edycja Nagrody Architektonicznej Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy - plebiscyt rozpoczęty , September 6, 2018, Warsaw City Council website (in Polish)
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 20 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 39 ″ E