The Treasury Minister's Palace and the tree-lined garden square in front of it, seen from Rymarska Street
Bank Square with its fountain, the Corazzi palaces on the left and Rymarska Street on the right
The colonnaded palaces of the square under reconstruction after their destruction in 1944
Dzerzhinsky Square, as it was then named, with the rebuilt palaces and the Dzerzhinsky statue
A Konstal 105Na tram passing the rebuilt palace colonnades on Bank Square
The Blue Skyscraper and the Słowacki monument on Bank Square
The rebuilt Treasury Minister's Palace with the Słowacki monument in front
Bank Square took its classicist form in the 1820s, when Antonio Corazzi built the palace of the Government Revenue and Treasury Commission, the Treasury Minister's Palace and the Bank Polski building around it. The palaces were burnt out in 1944 and rebuilt in the early 1950s, while the square was widened into a major traffic junction and renamed after Felix Dzerzhinsky, whose statue stood here from 1951 to 1989. Today the palace complex houses Warsaw City Hall, the Blue Skyscraper (completed in 1991) stands on the east side near the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue, and a monument to Juliusz Słowacki has stood on the square since 2001.