January 2012
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wilanów
location: warsaw, poland time: 1960-70s
next to wilanów palace, the polish versailles.
land of the pastels, bathrooms, balconies. green trees, concrete overpasses, loud city highways.
the diplomat housing estate.
the glass covered staircases.
the riverside and the polish caramel candies.
land of the early nineties, the memories before our birth.
the rain.
the future.
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gocław
location: warsaw, poland time: 1977
it is wonderful again: since the estate is built by the housing cooperative gocław airport, the four subdistricts of gocław are named of different polis aircraft pieces:
iskra (spark) jantar (amber) orlik (eagle) wilga (oriole)
a secret sentence about socialism written into the urban landscape.
and in the middle of the estate there is a lake called...
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natolin
location: warsaw, poland time: 1980
going further on the bus, we arrive to a land even more out of reality. this is the postwar world of pastel lights reflecting eternal greyness. greyness is usual everywhere in warsaw, but here it looks like the official atmosphere ordered by the commanders of the neighbourhood. houses are tall and continue in endless fragmented structures, the strong...
