Warsaw holds 7 buildings across 8 architectural styles, a compact but layered collection that reflects the city's cycles of destruction and reinvention. The most represented styles are Modernist and Contemporary, each with buildings that bridge the sacred and the civic.
What makes Warsaw architecturally distinct is the collision of scales and ideologies: Jan Bogusławski's Smolna 8 — a Brutalist-Functionalist hybrid from the socialist era — shares the city with Stefan Kuryłowicz's Wolf Bracka, a glass-and-steel contemporary tower. Sacred architecture runs through the catalogue like a thread: the Church of Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church and the Temple of Divine Providence represent two generations of monumental religious building. Jakub Szczęsny's Keret House, wedged into a gap between buildings, is the opposite extreme — architecture at its most minimal.
