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    I saw a ruined building in Warsaw.

    Walking around Warsaw, I’m staying at the Novotel hotel, and from the window that building that looks kind of ruined caught my attention. What is it? It literally looks like it’s about to fall down. It is located on the block of Al. Jerozolimskie and Krucza streets

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    1. Zdzisiu on

      You made me smile OP. Someone sees such building in Poland and is so surprised that makes a post about it. That’s progress my fellow Poles.

      It’s just an old building that stayed. There used to be way more buildings in bad condition in Poland.

    5. bartoszfcb on

      If you are from Argentina, you might have already met the perpetrators of destruction of this building and never knew it.

    6. bobrobor on

      There are probably 47 lawsuits about ownership of this building from claimants abroad trying to redevelop it into pato-project which will destroy the neighborhood and everyone around it is opposing it.

    10. FrozMind on

      It “literally” has just roof removed from what I can see. It does not mean it will fall down any time soon if not helped by someone with major fire or tremors. If you see large cracks in walls, like penetrating full width of wall, this means it can fall. It’s made of red brick, not mud.

    11. Limp-Lingonberry-596 on

      Completely unrelated but seeing the view of Warszawa just makes me remember how much I miss it 🥲

    12. Kintagi on

      Because warsaw president cared more about his image right before elections like opening a tramway to the southern part

    13. KacSzu on

      yeah, there’s some of similar buildings in PL

      Getting rid of ruins is a ton of beauricratic pain for the city, and then someone needs to pay for demolishon and cleaning, so they stay

      I remember only one abandoned building getting renovated, and currently it has a pizzeria and some other services, but there’s still some that stay ruined since years

    14. PartyMarek on

      Relict of privatisation after the fall of communism.

      Buildings previously owned and preserved by the state were supposed to be given back to their rightful owners. Thing is though that their last recorded private owners were in the 1940s when they were confiscated. Many of whom died during the war or moved abroad. Finding their owners after half a century resulted in long legal proceedings which still go on to this day. Since they have no rightful owner, nobody can really do anything with them legally. So they rot away until either court finally rules who the ownership goes to or the building has to be demolished due to safety hazards.

    15. Four_beastlings on

      Holy shit. I lived in that salmon corner building next to the yellowish one right in front for years and never knew there was a ruin there.

    17. Mother_Comment_6544 on

      I lived on Nowogrodzka street and i was visiting this building like 5 times each time climbing my way on the roof to chill/explore roofs.

      It always amazed me how such buildings can still be inside pretty much center of a sucha big city. Left part of the building is destroyed completely, only walls stayed and there are no floors there. So when you stay on the ground floor you can see the sky. Right part was partially destroyed but you could use stairs to get to the top floor and then climb roof. There is one more abandoned building next to those two visible on your image which is in way better shape. Im pretty sure some people are living there, so we decided to not go there.

      I circled from where you took photo 😀 Ps I dont advice anyone to go there as this building was in very very bad shape already in 2021

      https://preview.redd.it/rnxcd6y1aaqg1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=123cdc9e920feade9b7d360b2ee9353c9d45d016