Central Section of the Second Metro Line in Warsaw

Year: 2007
Location: 7 stations from "Rondo Daszyńskiego" to "Dworzec Wileński", Warsaw
Type of investment: Warsaw subway stations
Total area: 51993 m²
Team:
Consortium of B.P. Metroprojekt and AMC – Andrzej M. Chołdzyński, Consortium of companies
- Andrzej M. Chołdzyński - architect, general designer of architecture in phase of Multi-branch Conceptual Design
- Stanisław Pęski - chief project engineer at the stage of the Multi-branch Concept Design
- Wojeciech Fangor - painting and graphics
also:
Tomasz Burno | Artur Wieliczko | J. Bartosz Krzemiński | Mirosław Falkowski | Tomasz Birezowski | Magdalena Małkowska | Elżbieta Wróbel - Wodzyńska
Awards: 1st prize in the competition for the concept of the central section of the 2nd line

The design and implementation of the central section of the second metro line included seven stations:

Rondo Daszyńskiego, Rondo ONZ, Świętokrzyska, Nowy Świat-Uniwersytet, Copernicus Science Center, National Stadium, Vilnius Railway Station and 6 tunnels.

The project was one of the largest metropolitan infrastructure projects of the last decade in Europe.
The Investor, City of Warsaw, decided to carry it out in a two-stage system, including “Design and Build”. Our task, after winning the international competition, was to prepare a Multi-branch Concept Design. The project developed by us then became the basis for defining the order in the tender for the General Contractor and one of the elements of the Investor’s contract with him. This task turned out to be relatively difficult. It required the inclusion of the most important elements of the architectural design in the concept phase and an authorial assessment of which of them should be developed in detail as the most important for defining the nature of the Central Section of the Second Metro Line. And that’s including the details. Then, the most important parts and details of the conceptual design had to be properly designed so that they would survive until the end of construction and would be a mainstay of the project’s identity, also after completion of the investment and putting it into use.
The leading idea was to create a usable space that would be an architectural synthesis of functions, painting and sculptural elements combined with technology and construction. One of the assumptions behind the implementation of such a Renaissance triad was the idea of cooperation with an artist, a world-famous painter with experience of designing in urban space. The colorful exits from the subway, which stand out in the urban tissue, were conceived as sculptural and painting artifacts, steel and glass elements facilitating e.g. orientation on a metropolitan scale. On the platforms, in the absence of sunlight, in artificial lighting, a universe has been created in which architecture reflects the initiative with color and artistic narration.

Usable area (m2): approx. 51 993 m2

Volume: approx. 709 418 m3

Project Date: 2007 – 2009

Realization date: 2010-2015

Investment cost (PLN): approx. PLN 4.6 billion