Central Department Store (Warsaw)

Cedet
Central Department Store
Centralny Dom Towarowy (Polish)
Cedet in 2018.
Map
Former names
  • Central Children's Home
  • "Smyk" Department Store
General information
Type
Architectural styleModernism
Address50 Krucza Street, Warsaw, Poland
Construction started1948
Completed1952
Design and construction
Architect(s)Zbigniew Ihnatowicz, Jerzy Romański
Other information
Public transit accessTrams in Warsaw Krucza stop: lines 7, 9, 22, 24, 25
Central Department Store in 1960s.

The Cedet, originally Central Department Store (Polish: Centralny Dom Towarowy, CDT)[a] is a modernist building, originally a department store, currently an office building, in Warsaw, Poland. It was designed by architects Zbigniew Ihnatowicz and Jerzy Romański and built between 1948 and 1952. Distinct from socialist realism architecture built at the time and proclaimed as aesthetic doctrine in 1949 by communist rule in Poland, the CDT building aroused controversy. Between 2014 and 2018 it underwent major rebuild by private investor who bought it in 2013, which received unfavourable opinions from the architecture community, but was widely acclaimed by the public.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "Centralny Dom Towarowy | #architektura | Culture.pl". culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b "DH Smyk (Centralny Dom Towarowy)". tubylotustalo.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 7 March 2023.


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