项目位于波兰年轻的后工业化城市卡托维兹，由本国建筑工作室Medusa Group设计建造。项目由.KTW办公楼以及First District住宅综合体组成，大胆的设计使建筑撕下了“波兰-底特律效应”的标签，为城市中心注入了新的活力，并获得了国内外的一致好评。卡托维兹市没有一个以工业或劳动力为基础发展出来的明确城市中心，因此面临着世界上许多后工业化城市同样的担忧。幸运的是，例如Medusa Group事务所合伙人Przemo Łukasik等的新时代波兰建筑师正在崛起，当代城市肌理在新一代建筑的承诺下逐渐形成。

.KTW办公楼外观概览，overview of .KTW office buildings

Polish-based architectural studio Medusa Group set-up two bold projects in the young post-industrial city Katowice, Poland. Both of them tear off the tag of Polish-Detroit effect. The .KTW office buildings and the First District residential area, giving a leaven to the new city-center, have just been awarded by international audience.Without a clearly urban-defined center, based on industry and hard human work Katowice was facing the same fears as many post-industrial cities worldwide. Fortunately today, thanks to commitment of the new age Polish architects such as Przemo Łukasik from Medusa Group, the city is being born new in modern reality now.

近年来，越来越多的文化建筑在卡托维兹出现，逐渐形成了文化区。由西里西亚博物馆、波兰广播国家交响乐团和国际会议中心组成的文化空间代替了前卡托维兹煤矿产区，进而恢复了城市的活力。这几座公共文化建筑均采用了长方体体量的形式，并形成逐渐增高的动态趋势。如今，Medusa Group事务所则为这一活力区增添了新的篇章。上述公共建筑的形态成为本项目塔楼设计的灵感来源，这一点得到了土生土长的本地建筑师Przemo Łukasik的认可。全新的建筑将进一步补充新兴文化区的功能，为当地市民提供便利。

New cultural buildings have been erected in the recent years in Katowice as an idea called Culture Zone. A revitalized space covering the area of the former ’Katowice’ coal mine – the Museum of Silesia, the Polish Radio National Symphonic Orchestra and the International Congress Centre. All of them are composed of cuboids, gradually getting higher. Medusa Group wrote the additional chapters to this new hot city story. – We decided to use it as one of the design inspirations in preparing the towers concept – says Przemo Łukasik, who lives his whole life here. The new set-up buildings were supposed to complement the cultural functions of the place.

▼.KTW办公楼远观，viewing the.KTW office buildings at distance

▼由周边公共文化建筑看办公楼，viewing the KTW office buildings from surrounding cultural architecture