Warsaw practice WXCA has been chosen to lead the rebuilding of a complex of historic buildings in the Polish capital that was destroyed by German forces in 1944.

While Warsaw’s Old Town Market Place and Royal Castle were reconstructed from ruins in the years following the war, the Saxon Palace, Brühl Palace and Królewska Street tenement houses were not.

The complex of buildings once accommodated the general staff of the Polish Army and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other institutions, and has been described as a “symbol of Warsaw” by Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda.

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