Nineteenth century brick factory halls and a working tram depot stand beneath new glass office towers, and an old clinic building played a prison for the TVN series Skazana.
What Wola looks like
Norblin's old metalworking plant on Żelazna Street kept its brick halls and steel framed sheds when the site was rebuilt into shops, restaurants and a museum. A block away on a single brick gable wall stands alone behind a chain link fence, the rest of its factory demolished and the lot left as cracked concrete covered in graffiti, glass office towers rising directly behind it.
The gasworks on Kasprzaka Street keeps its two round brick gasholder buildings, a pressure tower, a fire station and a carriage house grouped around the yard. The former compression and pumping station now holds the Warsaw Gasworks Museum, and the whole complex is protected as a historical monument.
The tram depot on Młynarska Street holds three parallel brick sheds, one built first and two more added beside it, each roofed as one long span carrying eight tracks. It is still a working depot, and trams for a dozen city routes pull in and out through its gates every day.
Glass office towers rise directly behind the brick, some running past fifty storeys with dark or pale curtain walls, tram tracks and wide asphalt avenues passing beneath them. Cranes still stand over unfinished towers near , where the avenues are widest and the buildings tallest.
Shot in Wola
For the TVN series Skazana, production turned this Działdowska Street building into a fictional prison. The corridors, visitation room, cafeteria and offices are the real spaces the crew filmed. Its cell blocks and platform were built as a set elsewhere, and the prison's exterior belongs to a real jail in Zabrze.
Skazana
Played a prison's corridors, visitation room, cafeteria and offices, a fictional prison, present day
This building is a former social insurance clinic, now used as a children's hospital branch. The TVN series Skazana filmed its corridors, visitation room, cafeteria and offices here. Its own cell blocks and platform were built as a set elsewhere, and the prison's exterior belongs to a real jail in Zabrze. Only these interior spaces are this address. Street View
Coal Drops Yard and the Granary Building kept their Victorian brick warehouse walls, coal stores and a wheat store when the site was rebuilt as shops and offices. The same brick sits under a glass conversion there as the factory halls do here. Google's UK headquarters and other new office blocks now stand directly behind the retained brick, at a similar scale of a few storeys of masonry against much taller glass towers. Coal Drops Yard's sculpted steel and glass roof is unmistakably London in a wide shot, so hold tighter frames on the brick walls alone. Try searching Victorian brick warehouse conversion now.
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Old brick warehouse buildings such as the Van Vorst Building were kept standing between Amazon's new glass office towers, the same low brick beside tall glass pairing as the halls beside the newer towers here. The brick buildings run only a few storeys against towers many times their height, which matches the scale directly. American double glazed windows and painted steel fire escapes are the tells in a close shot, so hold wider frames where the brick looks generic industrial. Try searching brick warehouse beside glass tower now.
