Lonely Planet and multiple other travel guides often describe Warsaw as a misshapen patchwork of the old and the new, of the dull communist concrete and modern western steel, or another combination of this and that which don't seem entirely synergistic or complementary. But, looking out our hotel window at the Warsaw Spire (second tallest building in Poland), I see something that must have been unimaginable in 1945 -- a thriving, rebuilt, and free Warsaw.
Oh, and on top of that, the Spire is architecturally stunning. Built by a Belgian real-estate developer, the Warsaw Spire won an award in 2017 for best office and business development in the world. That's quite a long ways from the dull, depressing, and homogeneously unadorned concrete that dominated the city during the days of Soviet communism.
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