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26 of January '23

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Sink or soar, a summary of the year 2022 in architecture (part XVII)
Museum of Modern Art of All Poles
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"Green river" will flow down the slope. City-building shortcut in the center of Poznań

 

Jakub Głaz, 26 of January '23
Nowy zielony pasaż na poznańskich Targach - przyjazny skrót w dzielnicy łazarz, wizualizacja

New green passageway at Poznań Fair - friendly shortcut in łazarz district, visualization

It was a long time to wait for it: the Poznań Fair will finally cease to be a district isolated from the city. The first green walkway running through the MTP grounds is expected to be ready in six months. This will create a public aesthetic shortcut that will make life easier for [...]

It was a long time to wait for it: the Poznań Fair will finally cease to be a district isolated from the city. The first green walkway running through the MTP grounds is [...]

"In harmony with nature". The 6th edition of the nationwide design competition is underway

 

Dobrawa Bies, 26 of January '23
Plakat konkursu

Competition poster

The 6th edition of the nationwide competition for young designers and designers has been launched. This year's challenge is the design of a "piece of furniture" that supports meetings in nature. You have until February 27 this year to apply. [...]

The 6th edition of the nationwide competition for young designers and designers has been launched. This year's challenge is the design of a "piece of furniture" that [...]

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Lighting design with vision: the Discovery luminaire

How do you keep your market from degrading? A regeneration strategy will help !

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Wiktor Bochenek, 26 of January '23

Urban markets are a double-edged sword. They can be a credit to the local community or, conversely, lead to its scorn. This unique urban space also has hidden potential, which an interdisciplinary team from Gdansk has explored. [...]

Urban markets are a double-edged sword. They can be a credit to the local community or, conversely, lead to its scorn. This unique urban space also has hidden potential, [...]

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Dafi - Smart kitchen? Only with a Flow Comfort filter!

Cultural Center in a former port silo. Project of a student from Poland awarded!

 

Dobrawa Bies, 26 of January '23
Projekt „Centreje” otrzymał wyróżnienie w konkursie Silos Buenos Aires

The "Centreje" project received an honorable mention in the Silos Buenos Aires competition

© Przemyslaw Ruta

Przemysław Ruta of the Wroclaw University of Technology has an idea for the use of an old port silo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His proposal is to transform the deteriorating building and its surroundings into a Cultural Center that could revitalize the Puerto Madero neighborhood. The "Centreje" project was the only one from Poland to be recognized in the international Silos Buenos Aires competition and received an honorable mention! [...]

Przemysław Ruta of the Wroclaw University of Technology has an idea for the use of an old port silo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His proposal is to transform the [...]

Soaring Acts

 

Piotr Średniawa, 26 of January '23
Akty strzeliste

Soaring Acts

In our Beskydy cottage in one of the rooms or rather chambers there is a specific library. It is a not at all small collection of quite old or very old books experiencing their quiet retirement. As I am very fond of books and never throw them away, a collection of books that no one reads or returns to or looks at anymore has accumulated in our urban apartment over time. [...]

In our Beskydy cottage in one of the rooms or rather chambers there is a specific library. It is a not at all small collection of quite old or very old books [...]

Truth, shorthand and simplicity

A column by Jakub Szczęsny

Jakub Szczęsny, 26 of January '23
Jakub Szczęsny

Jakub Szczęsny

Once upon a time, my Lord Father, Cher Papa, used to say that the truth counts. The truth always counts, and it's simple: how one helps the landraces disappear from the glass bowl on the table into the depths of one's own digestive tract, and then pretends in front of grandma that the landraces were eaten by the cat. Or how one gets four notes in the diary and hides the diary secretly under the sofa, claiming that the bad guys stole it. [...]

Once upon a time, my Lord Father, Cher Papa, used to say that the truth counts. The truth always counts, and it's simple: how one helps the landraces disappear from the [...]

Green activities for green currency? International cooperative creates unique project

 

Wiktor Bochenek, 25 of January '23
PULA

PULA

Will we get green currency in the future for planting trees? An international cooperative is creating a unique project in which we will get virtual money for pro-environmental actions, which we will be able to spend at action partners. In the near future the solution will be tested in Gdansk. [...]

Will we get green currency in the future for planting trees? An international cooperative is creating a unique project in which we will get virtual money for [...]

Balance of modern and classic. Inbalance studio

 

Ola Kloc, 25 of January '23
wnętrze mieszkania projektu studia Inbalance

interior of an apartment designed by Inbalance studio

Photo credit: Alexandra Dermont

Colors and geometric details in interiors are slowly becoming a hallmark of projects by Hanna Brzozowska from the Inbalance studio. These elements could not be missing also in the studio's latest realization - the arrangement of a nearly fifty-meter apartment in Warsaw. Pink is king in this space! [...]

Colors and geometric details in interiors are slowly becoming a hallmark of projects by Hanna Brzozowska from the Inbalance studio. These elements could not be missing [...]

Student designed climate change research center in Norway

 

Dobrawa Bies, 25 of January '23
Centrum badań zostało zaprojektowane na norweskim fiordzie

The research center was designed on a Norwegian fjord

Surround photo: Michal Tyrkiel © Agnieszka Hoja-Jurewicz

Agnieszka Hoja-Jurewicz of the Technical University of Lodz, worried about progressive climate change, has designed the Center for Climate Change Research in Norway. The stepped building, located in the slope of the Aurlandsfjord fjord, consists of seven floors designed for, among other things, research on methane emissions, long-term research projects, knowledge exchange, as well as education of tourists visiting the center. [...]

Agnieszka Hoja-Jurewicz of the Technical University of Lodz, worried about progressive climate change, has designed the Center for Climate Change Research in Norway. The [...]

Sink or soar, a summary of the year 2022 in architecture (part XVII)

Pawel Mrozek

Paweł Mrozek, 25 of January '23
Paweł Mrozek

Pawel Mrozek

© Private Archive

The end of December - because that's when we finished preparing the January issue - is the best time for all kinds of summaries. In the seventeenth episode we bring back a statement by Pawel Mrozek [...]

The end of December - because that's when we finished preparing the January issue - is the best time for all kinds of summaries. In the seventeenth episode we bring back [...]

Atrium disappears from the map of Warsaw. Is this a good thing?

 

Kacper Kępiński, 24 of January '23
Atrium

Atrium

Kacper Kepinski

Less than three decades after its completion, the demolition of Atrium International has begun. Part of the successful, urban design will be replaced by a glass skyscraper. But is it a change for good? [...]

Less than three decades after its completion, the demolition of Atrium International has begun. Part of the successful, urban design will be replaced by a glass [...]

Consciously and from scratch. Forum of Design and Architecture during BUDMA trade fair

February 1-2, 2023.

Ola Kloc, 24 of January '23
Forum Designu i Architektury, targi BUDMA 2023

Design and Architecture Forum, BUDMA 2023 trade fair

© organizers archive

Accompanying the BUDMA trade fair in Poznań, the D&A Design and Architecture Forum will be held this year on February 1-2 (on the stage of pavilion 3A on the grounds of the Poznań International Fair) under the highly topical slogan "Renewal - consciously about energy." The event will be hosted by Jakub Glaz, architecture critic and editor of A&B. [...]

Accompanying the BUDMA trade fair in Poznań, the D&A Design and Architecture Forum will be held this year on February 1-2 (on the stage of pavilion 3A on the grounds of [...]

Choose the best A&B cover of 2022!

 

Wiktor Bochenek, 24 of January '23
okładki A&B z 2022 roku

2022 A&B covers

© Architecture & Business

We are curious about your opinions! So we invite you to vote for the best A&B cover—each Reader can vote only once and only for one of them*. Voting runs from January 24 to March 10, 2023 at 23:59 [...]

We are curious about your opinions! So we invite you to vote for the best A&B cover—each Reader can vote only once and only for one of them*. Voting runs from [...]

"Project Well Arranged 2023" competition launches

 

24 of January '23
To pierwsza edycja konkursu

This is the first edition of the competition

The "Well-Plastered Design 2023" competition for visualizations of architectural objects using Vjetra® paving in their surroundings will start on January 26 during 4 Design Days. The prize pool is PLN 30 thousand, and the jury includes Aleksandra Grzonka, Przemo Łukasik and Adam Maroszek. [...]

The "Well-Plastered Design 2023" competition for visualizations of architectural objects using Vjetra® paving in their surroundings will start on January 26 during 4 [...]

Pole with the top prize of the 3rd stage of the Tubądzin Design Awards in the CultureFORM category

 

Dobrawa Bies, 24 of January '23
The Grand Prize was held by Aleksandra Sitek

The Grand Prize was held by Aleksandra Sitek

© Aleksandra Sitek

The third stage of the CultureFORM competition is behind us! The Grand Prize was won by Aleksandra Sitek from Poland. The jury also awarded four honorable mentions, one of which went to Kristina Busko. Interestingly, both projects from Poland involve Wroclaw. [...]

The third stage of the CultureFORM competition is behind us! The Grand Prize was won by Aleksandra Sitek from Poland. The jury also awarded four honorable mentions, one [...]

Sink or soar, or a summary of the year 2022 in architecture (part XVI)

Jakub Głaz

Jakub Głaz, 24 of January '23
Kuba Głaz

Kuba Glaz

© Private Archive

The end of December - because that's when we finished preparing the January issue - is the best time for all kinds of summaries. And like every year, we ask practitioners and architecture critics to write what they consider a success and what they consider a failure in a given year. We do it in the convention of Sink or Soar. We give our Authors and Authoress total freedom of expression and do not moderate this discussion. Rather, we are very curious about it. Statement by Kuba Głaz [...]

The end of December - because that's when we finished preparing the January issue - is the best time for all kinds of summaries. And like every year, we ask [...]

Museum of Modern Art of All Poles

If we succeed in something like this, it means we made a mistake somewhere

Paweł Mrozek, 23 of January '23
propozycja budynku Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej godzącego oczekiwania większości Polaków

propozycja budynku Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej godzącego oczekiwania większości Polaków

Paweł Mrozek

propozycja budynku Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej godzącego oczekiwania większości Polaków
propozycja budynku Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej godzącego oczekiwania większości Polaków
Badania GUS: Uczestnictwo Polaków w różnych formach kultury w 2019 r.
powstający budynek Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, proj.: Thomas Phifer and Partners
projekt nowego kształtu Placu Defilad w Warszawie
propozycja estetyki budynku Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie
powstający budynek Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, proj.: Thomas Phifer and Partners

Will the pots prepare Cracovians for the greening of Market Square?

 

Wiktor Bochenek, 23 of January '23
Zachodnia część rynku

Western part of the market

Toward the end of last week, Krakow was in an uproar, with accusations pouring in the direction of the City Greenery Board from all sides. In the near future, the municipal institution wants to get residents and tourists used to greenery. What does this really mean? [...]

Toward the end of last week, Krakow was in an uproar, with accusations pouring in the direction of the City Greenery Board from all sides. In the near future, the [...]

From Japan to Gdansk. Interior in japandi style designed by Sikora Wnętrza studio.

 

Ola Kloc, 23 of January '23
mieszkanie w Gdańsku w stylu japandi

japanese style apartment in gdansk

A few years ago, as part of our "10 Questions to..." series of mini conversations with architects, we asked Jan Sikora what - in three words - architecture is to him. "Context. Harmony. Story." - he answered. See how the architect combined these three aspects in his latest interior design project in Gdansk. [...]

A few years ago, as part of our "10 Questions to..." series of mini conversations with architects, we asked Jan Sikora what - in three words - architecture is to him. [...]

Must Have 2023. the call for the 13th edition of the plebiscite for the best Polish design is underway

 

Dobrawa Bies, 23 of January '23
Must Have 2023

Must Have 2023

Recruitment is underway for the next, 13th edition of the must have! carried out as part of the Łódź Design Festival. Applications for projects that will compete for the title of best Polish design can be sent until February 15 this year. [...]

Recruitment is underway for the next, 13th edition of the must have! carried out as part of the Łódź Design Festival. Applications for projects that will compete for the [...]

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