Julia Graczyk - "Swiatlochron - adaptation of shelter-hangars in Stargard for an integration and therapeutic complex".

"Best Interior Diploma" competition 02/2025

Aleksandra Skorupa, 12 of February '25
„Światłochron – adaptacja schronohangarów w Stargardzie na kompleks integracyjno-terapeutyczny”

"Swiatlochron - adaptation of shelter-hangars in Stargard for an integration and therapeutic complex".

© Julia Graczyk

We are observing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. It's too bright to see many of them. We bring light wherever our eyes fail us, we light up the spaces in which we function every day. We are blurring the line between bright day and dark night. According to the International DarkSky Association, 99 percent of people in Europe and the United States do not have adequate darkness at night. Can we still talk about the balance between light and darkness in this situation? The main protagonist [...]

We are observing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. It's too bright to see many of them. We bring light wherever our eyes fail us, we light up the spaces in which [...]

Brutalism not only in cinema - how well do you know Polish brutalist buildings?

Brutalist architecture in Poland

Przemysław Ciępka, 11 of February '25
Architektura brutalistyczna w Polsce

Brutalist architecture in Poland

Photo: Piotr Iłowiec © CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons

The Brutalist, the latest film directed by Brady Corbet, has taken over Polish cinemas, the desks of filmography portals and the minds of connoisseurs of good film productions. The core of the more than three-hour-long, monumental (the term fits here like nowhere else) work is, in keeping with the title, a brutalist project that László Tóth, a Hungarian architect of Jewish descent, is working to bring to fruition. It turns out, however, that we don't have to look for Brutalist architecture at [...]

The Brutalist, the latest film directed by Brady Corbet, has taken over Polish cinemas, the desks of filmography portals and the minds of connoisseurs of good film [...]

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