Hala Koszyki Warszawa

This guide to Hala Koszyki in Warsaw starts with the wicker baskets of earth that once held back cholera on this ground, giving the district its name, and follows the steel-framed market hall built here in 1908 by architect Juliusz Dzierżanowski. It traces the hall through the Warsaw Uprising fire of 1944, its decades as a communist-era grocery cooperative, and the renovation after 2012 that took the building apart brick by numbered brick. Look up at the ironwork over the hall for the detail the guide keeps returning to.