CSW Torun

CSW Torun

The most significant modern building in Torun is the Centre for Contemporary Art (known as "CSW" in Polish).

It has several exhibition spaces as well as a cinema and, as is essential for all modern museums, a good cafe too.

Construction began in 2006 as part of a "The Signs of Time" programme co-ordinated by the National Culture Center. CSW, the first post war purpose-built contemporary art gallery in Poland, was completed on 14th June 2008.

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There are three floors with 4000 m² of exhibition space. The ground floor contains a  Cinema, a large room with kitchen space, an Art Bookstore and Sömmering's reading-room.

Building's special feature is one transparent wall with the spiral staircase visible from the outside. It's the first thing that people notice (to be honest it looks really nice in the evening).
I think this is the main element of the construction - without it it'd be just another bulding covered with bricks.

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The first and second floor comprises exhibition rooms (height varying from 3.7 m to 7.26m). 

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Offices are located on third floor where there is also a terrace.

(If you are from Torun you will already know that this is one of the most popular places for local photographers...).

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Gdzie? CSW Toruń

Kiedy? 5 marca 2013, godzina 18:00

Wejście? Free

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Małopolski Ogród Sztuki w Krakowie

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Małopolski Ogród Sztuki w Krakowie to nowoczesny obiekt, który łączy rozmaite dziedziny sztuki. Ma na celu kształcnie oraz promocję sztuki współczesnej.

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Budynek jest dziełem projektantów z biura Ingarden & Ewý Architekci. Nie jest to ich jedyny tak nowatorski obiekt.  

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Projekt jest doceniany nie tylko w Polsce. Budynek zwyciężył  w konkursie na najlepszy budynek roku 2012 organizowanym przez portal archdaily w kategorii Kultura. 

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A Star City of Angels

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Anna began the odyssey of cities in our modest little design blog with the amazing industrial expanses further to the east while others have explored the magnificent historic vibrance of Rome, the stunning nature of San Francisco and of course mega-cities like London and New York and countless other great metropolitan areas have been mentioned.

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However, while I have been lucky enough to visit, spend extended time and even live in multiple magnificent cities in the world, I am not going to rush to a massively popular mega-city despite the wondrous attractions of NY, SFO, London or wherever...

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 Rather I am coming closer to the home of this blog, in fact right to the heart of this blog's home go mid-way between Gdansk and Warsaw on the Vistula River and you reach Torun, a Hanseatic (fresh water) port which is a jewel of medieval Poland...with the added advantage of a few modern touches too...

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From the Star House with its museum of Asian antiquities to the Ratusz (old town hall) across the road and the Dwor Artus Guild Hall opposite, the old town square leads into a warren of fascinating medieval streets as befits a city first given its city status in 1231AD.

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On every street corner the old town throbs with history, the place Napoleon stayed when he visited the birthplace of Copernicus, a true multi-disciplinarian genius: economist, astronomer, apothecary, military tactician, church administrator and much more!

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 UNESCO recognised Torun as a world heritage city a decade ago - the funky lighting in some of the photos here was part of a 10th anniversary celebration of Torun's UNESCO status in December 2012.

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Overall Torun isn't big (250,000 people) and it is in need of more tender loving care to bring the whole city up to a perfect level of preservation but it has a magnificent atmosphere that can only be found in genuine medieval cities - yes they were often fought over and true they have been vandalised over time (mostly by the cretinous forces of municipal government in past decades and centuries) but ultimately it's a beautiful place, a wonderful modern internet-connected city with an incredible future and thankfully was never destroyed by the all-out destructive warfare of the 20th century which ravaged so much of the European continent in particular.

So welcome to Torun, at the heart of the Vistula Vision and the home to the team at the Design Vistula blog. For me it's a little corner of municipal perfection, a historic gem with modern twists (e.g. Poland's only purpose built modern art gallery) in a fabulous, pulsating and wonderful world.

...Oh and there's great sushi too.

Bits & Bytes of Design

Hi, I'm Patrick, and as the one man on the Design Vistula team, I will tend to view things with more of a male viewpoint I suppose!

My interests in the field of design came originally from a passion for cars and have developed as I began to use computers and to travel. I am a pure layman in all aspects of design but fascinated by purity of design, biomimicry and design as applied cleanly, clearly and intelligently to anything from architecture and interiors through books, magazines, the web and all aspects of computing & gadgets etc. Inside me beats the heart of a futurist, having always loved the amazing concepts and designs of Marinetti et al

Having been born in a solid state analogue world, there is never a day that goes by where I am not thankful to have been witnessed the digital revolution exploding in front of me. I was there when they first shipped Sinclair ZX81's and also had a ZX Spectrum and an Amstrad PCW8256 soon after they were first released...

Once upon a time there were no computer dies and frankly from a design perspective, we can now enjoy the best of hand-made and the ultimate in commoditised production...

Moreover, thanks to the wonders of our global digital economy, we can enjoy design from throughout the world...now that's what I call an inspiration!

Hi there!

New year always brings us new aims. Kind of every-365-days new beginning in our lives.
But that's enough of philosophy talk.

May we introduce ourselves: we're Vistula Team!

We are from Toruń, Poland.
We love design in all of the aspects possibile - interiors (which is the one where design is quite obvious), daily necessities, instruments or even tattoo design and many many more.
There are 7 members of our team: Anna, Beata, Dominika, Joanna, Monika, Patrick and Paulina.

Our aim (not only for the year 2013;)) is to inspire. Also we'd like to share great ideas found on the internet, help to develop young artists.

Every member of our team has different style this is the reason why I suppose that any visitor would find something for themselves :)