Warsaw Trade Tower
A 43-storey tower built by Daewoo in 1999, with one of Europe's fastest elevators — seven metres per second — two blocks from the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
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The WTT sits at the corner of Chłodna and Towarowa in the Wola district, an odd pairing of post-communist commercial ambition and proximity to Warsaw's most sober memorial. Its 85-metre spire does not sit on the roof — it begins at the 32nd floor and climbs 24 metres above the roofline. A 2023 renovation gave the building a new lobby designed by MIXD studio.
What to look for
- The spire launching from the 32nd floor rather than the top — a structural quirk visible from street level
- The MIXD-designed lobby from 2023, the latest layer in a building modernised in two phases (2015–16 and 2023)
- The Warsaw Uprising Museum two blocks away — the juxtaposition of 1944 and 1999 Warsaw is the real story of the walk
Corner of Chłodna and Towarowa streets, Wola district; the two-storey ground-floor shopping centre is publicly accessible without entering the offices.
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More to see in Warsaw
- PGE Narodowy (Kazimierz Górski National Stadium)Poland's biggest football bowl hangs a retractable PVC roof from a central spire — when the mechanism works, it unfolds like a sail over 58,580 seats.
- Palace of Culture and ScienceStalin's skyscraper — Poles nicknamed it "elephant in lacy underwear" and never tore it down.
- Royal Castle in WarsawThe Nazis dynamited this building in 1944. Every room you walk through was rebuilt, stone by stone, between 1971 and 1984.
- Warsaw Old TownBombed flat in WWII and rebuilt from scratch — the world's first fully resurrected historic city core, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- National Museum in WarsawThe gallery that brought Nubian Christian art from a Sudanese cathedral to Warsaw.
- Wilanów PalaceBuilt for a warrior king while Poland still existed — and open as a museum since 1805.