Andrzej Marek Chołdzyński (born 2 November 1960 in
Lublin
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) is a Polish
architect
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. He is the designer of
Plac Wilsona metro station
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The station was opened on 8 April 2005 as the northern terminus of the extension ...
in Warsaw, the central part of the second Warsaw metro line and the headquarters of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Warsaw, among others. He was nominated for the
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
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since 1982, and simultaneously in
Warsaw
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since 1996.
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Awards and recognition
His awards include:[
*2000 - 2001 - Nominated for the first prize in the "Life in Architecture"
*2001 - Nominated for the annual European Union Prize Foundation Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona
*2002 - State Award of the first one degree for outstanding creative achievement in the field of Architecture and Construction for the design and construction of the building of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
*2008 - Title for the best new subway station in the world at the Conference in Copenhagen for the Wilson Square station in Warsaw
*2008 - The title of the world's best public utility building with reinforced concrete in 2008 - Mexico
*2000 - Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta]
References
External links
Official website
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1960 births
Living people
21st-century Polish architects
Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Architects from Lublin
Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology alumni