adma
Superstar
I understand what you are saying and I am usually quite sympathetic towards socialist architecture. It is easy to see how someone would like this building and I can imagine when it was new and shiny it probably looked quite wonderful.
Unfortunately though it is cheap, flimsy, and has not aged very well with time. Try as I did to simply enjoy the charm that once was and the visions of what the station was meant to be, as it stands, its a worn out and used monument to a time that has since passed. And as a functional building serving commuters and long distance travellers, it does the job, but barely, and heavier use of the station would start to make it feel crowded and a little uncomfortable. Too each their own though and perhaps had I not been a little more chipper and energetic that day I may have seen and experienced it differently.
I would not be surprised either if an effort was made to save and renovate it. I can also see how when it comes time to modernize the station and the rail service in the city, tearing it down would be fully justified too. That will be for the people of Warsaw to decide though and I am sure whatever they do will most likely be what is in the best interest of their city based on the rather difficult times they have gone through during most of the 20th century. Growing up in Canada, I cannot imagine the kinds of choices they have to make between modernizing their city, protecting the past, and perhaps intentionally wiping out some of the past too.
Perhaps the interesting thing is: by this standard, I'm not sure if *any* "contemporary" architecture in Poland btw/Stalin and Perestroika would make your cut.
Besides, other than maybe the "cheap, flimsy" part, what you say might as well have been said about Parkin's now-demolished 1964 Terminal 1 at Pearson...or it's echoed in hypothetical arguments for a sleek MaRS-esque replacement to Riverdale Hospital...etc, etc. Not that Terminal 1 *should* have been kept; but, degraded as it was, it surely wasn't the un-aesthetic hellhole a lot of its users thought it was...