Ujazdów Castle in Warsaw began in the 13th century as a castle of the Dukes of Masovia. Sigismund III Vasa built a fortified manor there for his son Władysław IV, and the infobox gives 1624. Tylman of Gameren rebuilt it as a royal residence for Augustus II, and Stanisław II August had it refurbished in 1764 with Jakub Fontana, Dominik Merlini, Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Efraim Schroeger. The infobox lists a Baroque-Neoclassical style, and Jarzębski described four marble lions at the entrance in 1643.
Lubomirski bought it in 1674. It served as a mint from 1659 to 1665, barracks from 1784 to 1789 and a military hospital from 1818. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising burned it, and communist authorities demolished its walls in 1954.
The reconstruction is dated 1974 in the infobox, and since 1985 the castle has housed the Centre for Contemporary Art, with over 600 exhibitions since 1990.
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