The new Victorians

The occasion was indeed unique. New Victoria, IVG’s ten-year-old building in the heart of the Wola business district of Warsaw, opened its doors to the agents of potential tenants of the LEED ‘Gold’ certified offices. At the entrance to the showroom on the tenth floor, every guest was given authentic construction site gear and soon the room was filled with people decked out in helmets and handy tool belts. Przemysław Borkowski of the legendary Polish comedy troupe Kabaret Moralnego Niepokoju kicked off the evening with a rather memorable statement: “Victoria is now a girl of marriageable age. All beautiful and grown up – and attracting the attentions of suitors. Or, if you prefer, tenants,” he said. The cabaret sketches that followed married two themes: the young face of the growing city with good old fashioned pre-1989 Polish construction site traditions. The new-old symbolism was the theme of the night, a mood in no small part sustained by a graff