I kind of can see that the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw took inspiration from New York‘s landmark, even though they are worlds apart as well. The height of this thing, makes it an impressive sight and impossible to miss. The inside though is a different story. Not the Art Deco kind I like. You should know that I stepped inside the foyer on the ground floor only. I did not go up to the terrace to have a view of the city. As I felt it was more of a building functioning as a home for several different institutions, companies and the likes, I had a look around, decided I wasn’t interested, and turned back out.
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It looks like the apartment blocks that ring central Moscow
Wow, nice looking apartment buildings then!
WOW. I didn’t know that there was another Empire State Building replica. At first I looked at the exterior and thought HOW DID I MISS THAT… then I realized you weren’t actually in New York. The lack of buildings should have given it away… but I’m a little slow this morning. lol 😉 #citytripping
Haha 😀 Apparently there is a few around the world, in Moscow and Shanghai (have seen the latter), according to Mel & Suan, comment below.
An impressive exterior though. Thanks for linking up with #citytripping
Yes!!
It will stay there no long anyway … Poles will demolish it soon. We have experience of freeing landscape from russian/communist symbols. We demolished russian orthodox church in 1918, after Poland regained its independence.
However your remark is inspiring. What if we make it detailed copy of Empire State Building …
There was a joke in 60-ties …. Russians painted Moon on red. After few months Americans painted “CocaCola” on it.
It’s coming down? I get it. Haha, hadn’t heard about the moon 😀
These monoliths came from a specific epoch of communist history in Russia. 7 of them in Moscow. We saw one in Shanghai too. They all look very similar in design
Yes, that’s right, there’s one in Shanghai. When you mention it, I remember seeing one there.