Anyone who spends any length of time in Warsaw cannot remain indifferent to the Palace of Culture and Science. Grotesquely outsized (231 metres in height, 212 metres in width at the base) and unambiguously phallic, the tower (surrounded by a vast and windswept ‘Parade Square’) is impaled into the belly of Poland’s capital. A ‘gift’ from Comrade Stalin to the Polish nation, the Palace was hoisted between 1952 and 1955 onto a sixty-acre plot then still strewn with… (View original article)
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