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Przemysław Ciępka
Graduate of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, educator and walker. In my spare time I water flowers and climb walls.
Architektura & Biznes – articles
“We built it remotely, mostly through WhatsApp and photos”—Anna Bulanda-Jansen on the construction of a minimalist home in Portugal
Conversations | Residential | One-family houses
These are Kraków’s best new buildings! Which of these structures impressed the architectural jury of the Mayor of Kraków Award the most?
Office | Education | Educational centers | Residential | One-family houses | Multi-family houses | Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces | Competitions
Raw brick on the outside, a colorful world on the inside. A new preschool and daycare center in Bieruń
Education | Kindergarten
“The best things come about through consensus”—Wojciech Kotecki and Bartosz Świniarski on the new BBGK Architekci studio
Conversations
Five hundred meters of Italian inspiration—the Splendido restaurant opens the Towarowa 22 complex to the southern sun
Public
“We need to be aware of the changes taking place, including among conservators”—an interview with Michał Krasucki, Acting Director of the National Heritage Institute
Conversations
Sinfonia Varsovia performs within the renovated walls of the Veterinary Institute at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). The first phase of the project preceded the construction of Poland’s largest concert hall
Culture | Philharmonics
A new warehouse on the Kraków skyline. A concrete colossus with almost no windows has risen in Mistrzejowice
Urban planning
The Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland and the Association of Historic Preservationists are appealing to the government. The tourist tax is intended to help protect historic sites
Law in architecture
A modern office within historic walls. This is what the interiors of Kantor Poznański in Łódź look like now
Public
The new skyscraper will change Katowice’s skyline, replace the bank’s glass headquarters, and erase all memory of the modernist pavilion
Residential | Multi-family houses | Urban planning
New Green Spaces and Recreational Areas in Kraków’s Neighborhoods: Here’s How the Mistrzejowice Planty Will Change
Urban planning | Landscape, parks
The Kamykowa housing estate in Białołęka looks like scattered building blocks. Is this a solution for sprawl or just a way to gloss over the problems of the suburbs?
Residential | One-family houses | Multi-family houses
Will Cepelia’s modernist pavilions in Częstochowa be designated as historic landmarks? The historic preservation officer has initiated the designation process ex officio
Culture | Museums and galleries
“Turning such valuable buildings into yet another residential complex would be a great loss”—an interview with Wojciech Fudala on the revitalization of the Montana Factory in Katowice
Conversations | Revitalization
A modernist office building from 1978 in Sosnowiec is set to undergo a transformation. The building will be encased in a glass shell.
Office
A Collaboration Between an Architect and a Craftsman. The new “Żona Krawca” café in Ursynów is a harmonious blend of beige tones
Public
The 15-Minute City in Practice – Modern Mokotów Brings Warsaw’s “Mordor” to Life
Residential | Multi-family houses
“Some cities, especially the small ones, will inevitably shrink.” An interview with Karol Janas
Conversations | Urban planning
Demolition of the Chemistry Department building at the Lodz University of Technology has been put on hold! The process of listing the building on the register of historic monuments has begun, and the Lodz Branch of SARP has also issued a statement.
Education | Universities | News
The hall with teeth on the Hutmen grounds in Wrocław has been added to the register of historic monuments. It is a “unique work of art.”
Workspaces | News
One swimming pool per million residents. Where will the new outdoor pools be built in Kraków?
Sport | Swimming pools
Slope House near Włocławek: a house built into a hillside overlooking the Vistula Valley
Residential | One-family houses
Massive tree felling in Warmia. Who is to blame for the accident—the driver or the tree?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces
A Second Chance for All. The Home for Young Mothers and Their Children in Warsaw Already Has Its First Residents
Alternatives | Multi-family houses
A house that winds its way through the trees. A forest hideaway has been built in Mosina on the edge of the Wielkopolski National Park
Residential | One-family houses
“At some point, we set aside the architect’s ego”—Krzysztof Grześków on the revitalization of Lubomierz
Conversations | Revitalization | Construction | Reconstruction | Expansion
A tenement house at 63 Wspólna Street in Warsaw has been added to the register. The capital has another post-war landmark, which was designed by Marek Leykam
Residential
The new TBS estate in Szczecin is 560 low-cost apartments on 10 acres of greenery. How was the Gorges housing estate project developed?
Residential | Multi-family houses
Glass library by the buildings of the Marshal's Office in Kielce to be demolished. "One of the most outstanding achievements of the international style in Poland".
Culture | Libraries and media libraries | News | Competitions | Public | Administration
An architect designed a house for himself out of a container. Offroadhouse in Vrzeszhin touches the ground in only a few places
Residential | One-family houses
Modernist schools on Emilia Plater Street in Warsaw made it to the register of monuments! Instead of a skyscraper, a social and cultural quarter may be built
Revitalization
PKP will demolish the train station in Mikolow. The 30-year-old building will join a growing list of demolished stations
Public
The Border House in Rybnik was built at the intersection of the human and natural worlds. Can architecture act as a "filter"?
Residential | One-family houses
Modernist "Rusalka" in Lublin converted into apartments. Zamojska 29 is a real example of re-use in architecture
Residential | Multi-family houses
Manna 2 in Warsaw: a desert oasis inspired by "Diuna" and Maria Jarema. Inside you'll eat a steak from a 3D printer
Public
Polish architects in the final of the international Bauhaus Bathroom competition. A toilet in the spirit of Bauhaus will be built next to the villa of Walter Gropius
Museums and galleries | One-family houses | Competitions | Public
New blocks on old housing estates? Cooperatives will get green yards in exchange for construction obligation
Law in architecture | Multi-family houses
Nova "mini" Mikołowska. Will City Garden in Katowice repeat the success of the award-winning development?
Residential | Multi-family houses
SWPS has new headquarters in Krakow - Silesian Seminary regained its pre-war splendor
Education | Universities | Revitalization
Budapest will undergo one of the largest revitalizations in Europe. Instead of a Mini Dubai, the Rákosrendező open district will be built.
News | Competitions | Revitalization | Urban planning
Unpublished projects from the competition for the concept of the Cracow Philharmonic. How did the architects envision the square at the Grzegórzeckie roundabout?
Culture | Philharmonics | Competitions
Common interests of the City, residents and the developer. Will there be a Duck Park in Krakow?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks
The new campus of the Academy of Music in Krakow may not be iconic, but that's not a complaint. Will Krakow finally get a contemporary architecture of real substance?
Education | Universities
Villa Jūratė on the Peninsula. Wood, steel and glass over Kossak's studio
Residential | Multi-family houses
My heart tells me that housing is a right - an interview with Janusz Olesinski, former president of TBS Katowice
Residential | Multi-family houses
Is the distribution of space on our streets fair? This app will help you see how much space cars are taking up in cities
Urban planning | Public spaces
"Dubai high-rises will not be built out of wood, and not just because this raw material is hard to come by in the desert."
Conversations
Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Prize!
News | Competitions | Events
"I agree to the role of a pioneer" - Barbara Brukalska in the front guard of Polish architecture
Residential | One-family houses | Multi-family houses
To see the crooked tower, come to Swiecie. APA Wojciechowscy Architects with master plan for Teutonic Castle
Revitalization | Urban planning | Landscape, parks
URGENT: There is a decision by the NAC in the Rzeszow Library case. WXCA appeal rejected, Word vortex to be implemented?
Law in architecture | News | Competitions
One of the narrowest townhouses in Poland has connected two buildings in Boleslawiec. This infill is like an architectural kintsugi
Residential | Urban planning
A "Joint Hospice House" will be established in Szczecin. This is an expression of concern for the city's residents and its monuments
Health
This is what Krucza will look like after reconstruction. Who gains and who loses?
Urban planning | Public spaces
Short-term rentals in new regulations. Will residents return to city centers?
Law in architecture | Urban planning | Residential
School from the 1960s converted into apartments. The 9 Oświatowa Street in Starachowice shows that adaptation is a good alternative
Residential | Multi-family houses | Revitalization | Expansion
Unexpected move by the Provincial Conservator of Monuments in Krakow. Construction of apartment building in Debniki stopped?
Residential | Multi-family houses | News
We have met the final list of EUmies Awards 2026! In which countries were the selected buildings constructed?
News
New block tidies up Mogilska Street. Investor and pedestrians will benefit
Residential | Multi-family houses
This is how the former Montana Factory in Katowice will change! Will it repeat the success of the Porcelain Factory?
Office | Trade | Revitalization | Urban planning | Workspaces
"Public will is needed for a smooth energy transition," interview with Andrzej Leszczynski and Norbert Smolarek
Conversations | Revitalization | Expansion
A house overlooking the Giant Mountains. In this building, "function and form follow the landscape."
Residential | One-family houses
Saw between blocks in Lodz. A new housing development is to be built between Gdanska and Zeromskiego streets.
Residential | Multi-family houses
Dance Pavilion in Warsaw opened! "We focused on bringing out the void".
Culture | Performing arts | Revitalization
A cascading colossus will grow next to the historic mill. This is what the New Center of Plock is to be
Residential | Multi-family houses
How to fit a functional house on a narrow lot? Skinny Haus, or architectural sculpture in a post-punk landscape
Residential | One-family houses
Can architecture be "anti-brittle"? A conversation with Susanna Kletschka, an architect from the Milan-based FLO studio
Conversations
A Polish studio has won an international architectural competition. They designed buildings in the historic center of Prague
Residential | Multi-family houses | News | Competitions
These washers and dryers will save you time and money. Here's why you should be interested in them
News | Company News
URGENT: Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska has cancelled the competition for Director of the National Institute of Architecture and Urbanism.
News | Competitions
Katowice's "Stars" will gain a younger sibling. New Star is a project behind which Maciej Franta is the head of the
Residential | Multi-family houses
Frank O. Gehry, the iconoclastic architect, has died. He designed buildings that previously seemed impossible to realize
Culture | Museums and galleries | Residential | One-family houses | News
A park in Czechowice-Dziedzice is hitting the green with red. How does it make the plants even greener?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks
Zakopane without a Municipal Conservator of Monuments. Who will take over his duties?
News | Urban planning
Statement of the votum separatum to the verdict of the jury in the competition "New Library" in Rzeszow
Culture | Libraries and media libraries | News | Competitions
Peaceful village, merry village. The Silesian homestead anew, or brick, wood and cathedral ceiling
Residential | One-family houses
The new Cis Park housing development in Gdynia has sprouted between the big plate and postmodernism
Residential | Multi-family houses
Łódź will build the Pavilion of the Elements. Environment: it is a competition "against Polish architects".
News | Competitions | Recreation
Ice Arena in Krakow. There was supposed to be a park, there is a huge hall that took away the light and greenery from the residents
Sport | Sports centers | Urban planning
Apartments in Lodz's Arelan. The surreal Lofts at Leonardo's makes a theme out of broken windows
Residential | Multi-family houses
Do we need to rethink our cities? International Architecture Biennale in Krakow 2025
News | Patronages | Events
Hel Happiness not making residents happy? They want to stop the felling of 400 trees for a resort on the Hel Peninsula?
Recreation | Hotels
New UW Psychology Department building in Ochota - architecture open to people
Education | Universities
New estate with woonerf in Gliwice - 120 low-cost apartments will be built in Łabędy. "It's a different approach from the developer approach," the - say the authors about TBS.
Residential | Multi-family houses
They furnished the restaurant at an antique market. Ragazzi in Baskets is a place with a marble countertop and Italian soul
Public
The Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz has just opened! Has an icon for half a billion been created on the Brda River?
Education | Universities
Will the west of the city get a taste? Krakow subway will have two lines, we know the stations!
Public | Urban planning | Public spaces
Functional eclecticism, or Rybaki 1 in Bydgoszcz's Fordon district
Residential | Multi-family houses
Angry red and design from a printer, that is BĀR in Krakow with an interior designed by Wojciech Nowak.
Public
A touch of madness in a model space. Warzelnia is the unconventional finale of the Bohemia - Prague Zone project.
Residential | Multi-family houses
A snow-white Promenade has been created in Wladyslawow. It is an answer to architectural chaos
Recreation | Hotels
Gone is the postmodern airbrush, what's left is the mosaic of the 1960s Rzeszów Główny ready after years
Public
From whom does our architecture open and to whom does it close? XV. Weekend of Architecture in Gdynia
Events
"Backyards", or 300 urban apartments in Gliwice. What will the new housing development on the edge of the city look like?
Residential | Multi-family houses
Gate, Memorial Road and Mausoleum. Social-modern monument to Holocaust victims after renovation
Monuments
The owner wants to overbuild an office building designed by a famous razor blade maker. Who can stop him?
Revitalization | Expansion
What language does Gambit speak? Gliwice office building from the design of Robert Konieczny with an award
Office
Design freshness straight from the can - Pudliszka headquarters transformed by Polish architects!
Public
One of Poland's leading studios is designing in Nairobi's slums. Education center in Kibera is an opportunity for the community
Education | Educational centers
The avant-garde Hansen pavilion in Lublin is falling into disrepair. Will the Museum of Housing Estates save the "little Sydney Opera House"?
Culture | Cultural centers | Residential | Multi-family houses | Revitalization
Two faces and a hidden treasure - Stefan Zeromski Theater in Kielce after reconstruction
Culture | Performing arts | Expansion
LG air conditioners from the DUALCOOL and ARTCOOL series - technology that cools with your head
News | Company News
Olsztyn mayor wants to demolish controversial monument. "A buzzsaw is not a good tool for having a conversation about history."
Urban planning | Monuments
Retrieved address - Flare Grzybowska is the third approach to this building. Will it succeed this time?
Residential | Multi-family houses | Revitalization
Renovation means demolition and reconstruction. Is the hostel on Hala Kondratowa still a monument?
Recreation | Hotels
They will do what others have not undertaken. The 2000 office building will become one of the most environmentally friendly skyscrapers in the capital
Office | Revitalization
This place will bring a gleam to an athlete's eye. Skra Sports Center after revitalization
Revitalization | Reconstruction | Sport | Sports centers
Two Europa Nostra 2025 Awards for Polish initiatives! Among them the Lodz revitalization
News | Competitions | Events | Revitalization
Boldly among the monuments, or the New Stage of the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theater in Rzeszow
Culture | Performing arts
A visit to a clinic like a stay at a spa - Voxel's diagnostic imaging facility in Varso Tower is a space that supports well-being
Public
There was a green wall, there's a mural - a decades-old grapevine has disappeared from the center of Krakow
Urban planning | Public spaces
Stalin's curse has lost its power - the opening of Central Square is imminent. What is it like and what path led to its creation?
Urban planning | Public spaces
Brutalist rotunda in Sudetenland to be rebuilt - second chance or lost heritage?
Residential | Multi-family houses | Revitalization | Construction | Expansion
Cheap, good, or maybe both? Passive TBS in Falenica open to residents
Residential | Multi-family houses
Metal bars on alleys in a Krakow park. Are they really a problem?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Small architecture
There was to be a competition, there will be a reconstruction. The Fountain of Neptune will return to the New Market Square in Wroclaw.
Urban planning | Monuments | Public spaces
First he divided the residents, then he sewed up the city - what is the Olsztyn Główny train station?
Public
Jurassic Nature Education Center in Krakow - ecology under a thatched roof
Education | Educational centers
Who will build shelters for half the population in Poland?
Law in architecture | Residential | One-family houses | Multi-family houses | Public
Krakow has an Urban Gardener! Will a hundred new woonerfs be built under Wawel Castle?
Law in architecture | Revitalization | Construction | Reconstruction | Expansion
Has a Wroclaw official lost his head? An architectural "chimera" in Wroclaw has exposed its facades.
Recreation | Hotels | Revitalization | Reconstruction
A monument or not? Spodek in katowice may go on the register after years
Culture | News | Revitalization
Is Krakow's infrastructure ready for the Clean Transportation Zone?
Public | Urban planning | Public spaces
In the granary of thoughts and experiences. ANALOG at the Festival of open architectural studios!
We organize | Events
They waited three years, they will wait some more. Landscape resolution comes into force in Kielce
Urban planning | Public spaces
Consumers versus developers - new portal will reveal hidden housing prices
Residential | Multi-family houses
Reading Parameter, an unusual adaptation of the historic interiors of the Lower Silesian Public Library
Public
Nursery No. 31 in Warsaw - the return of the modernist spirit in the shadow of Beijing
Education | Kindergarten
Will the block overwhelm the new Krakow Philharmonic building? Urban planners' appeal
Culture | Philharmonics | Urban planning | Public spaces
Daniel Libeskind with a new project in Poland. This is the next place where he will confront the theme of memory.
Education | Research centers
Do you remember this project? Construction of the Museum of the Dukes of Lubomirski in Wroclaw has begun
Culture | Museums and galleries
How do you fashion a real city out of a development mosaic? Special Residential Zones can help with that
Urban planning
Building-machine - a new scientific-laboratory center at the hydrobiology station in Mikolajki
Education | Research centers
Krakow's local government against pat-development - real change or official marketing?
Residential | Multi-family houses | Urban planning
Lexicon of housing architecture in one development - Nysa is building new communal blocks, and doing it with class
Residential | Multi-family houses
Brutalism not only in cinema - how well do you know Polish brutalist buildings?
Office | Trade | Culture | Libraries and media libraries | Cultural centers | Museums and galleries | Residential | Public | Recreation | Hotels
Architecture with many faces - Center for Intergenerational Activity in Warsaw
Culture | Cultural centers
Battle for apartments in Zakrzówek - activists take matters into their own hands. What does the governor say about it?
Climate change space | Residential | Multi-family houses | Publicity | Landscape and environment
Rural homestead anew - expansion of the Radom Village Museum in Radom
Culture | Museums and galleries
Lex developer instead of a shopping mall? - A new housing estate in Wroclaw with a design by BBGK Architekci
Residential | Multi-family houses
The architecture of transformation - a review of the book "Eternal training ground" by Olek Gadomskiy
Residential | Alternatives | One-family houses | News | Books | Patronages
The story of modernity - the exhibition "Transformations. Modernity in the Third Republic"
Culture | Museums and galleries | News | Events | Patronages
The panopticon of social modernism - in thrall to ignorance about the legacy of the Cold War
Conversations | News | Patronages | Events
How did it come about that a prominent Japanese architect designed a museum in Krakow? The "Manggha" museum in retrospect
Culture | Museums and galleries
Exceptional locations require exceptional architects - video interview with Piotr Voelkel
Residential | Hotels | Cycles | #Video calls
How is the discussion about the project to expand the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw?
Culture | Museums and galleries
Where will the trees grow in Krakow's market square?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces
How does lex developer affect spatial order? Adam Pustelnik is interviewed by Przemyslaw Ciepka
Cycles | #Video calls | Residential | Multi-family houses
Where will Krakow get the money for the subway? Prof. Stanislaw Mazur is interviewed by Przemysław Ciępka
#Video calls | Urban planning
Great prize for a small building—a house in the Jamna Valley with the Grand Prix of Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Province!
News | Competitions | One-family houses
House in Ochojiec—Polish cube anew, or austerity as an economic solution and a means of expression
Residential | One-family houses
Flipper, developer, youtuber and president of an important institute. Surely this is a good role model?
News
How to protect cities from floods? Dr. Kinga Krauze is interviewed by Przemyslaw Ciępka
Cycles | #Video calls
How to hide a large building in a valuable landscape? Planet Earth's Tatra Archives has the answer to that
Culture | Museums and galleries | Urban planning | Landscape, parks
Warsaw Ghetto Museum - without competition, though with design, funds and first progress
Culture | Museums and galleries | Revitalization | Expansion
Redevelopment of Dolnych Młynów Street in Kraków - revaluation or gentrification?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Small architecture | Public spaces
Is the construction of the Culture Quarter a blow to the future of Szczecin's Lasztownia?
Culture | Cultural centers | Museums and galleries | Performing arts
Wroclaw square a candidate for a European award - How has Nowy Targ square in Wroclaw changed?
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Small architecture | Public spaces
How to patch the hole in the landscape? - Recreation Center in Ulina Wielka
Recreation | Landscape, parks
New, but a bit like old—the revaluation of the Salinar Plantation in Bochnia
Urban planning | Landscape, parks
Sasnal, Bujnowski and Maciejowski Ambassadors of the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology!
Education | Universities | News | Events
Revitalization of Liberty Square in Lodz - a public space designer's dream come true.
Revitalization | Urban planning | Public spaces
Like a house made of paper - the design of the new library in Belzyce
Culture | Libraries and media libraries
Space tailored to the needs of young people - New Warsaw University dormitory in Służewiec district
Education | Universities | Residential | News | Events
Praga Port: Docks in Warsaw - a development on water will be built in the capital city
Residential | News
Modernization of the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture - Orońsko deserves more
Culture | Cultural centers | Museums and galleries | News | Events
How to plan blue-green infrastructure in cities? Satellites will help with this
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces
Railroad Park in Krakow - will the areas under the flyovers finally change?
Events | Urban planning | Landscape, parks
Residents take matters into their own hands - trees from the Tytano Foundation will grow in Krakow
Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces
Chmielna among trees and shrubs - the first stage of reconstruction of "the ugliest promenade in the capital" completed
News | Events | Urban planning | Landscape, parks | Public spaces
New seat of the Faculty of Arts of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
Education | Universities | News
Krakow Market Hall will appear in the register of monuments - what future awaits the modernist building?
News | Revitalization | Public spaces
Garden in pieces - the next stage of the development of Woznicow Park in Krakow will soon be launched
Landscape, parks | News
Agnieszka Chudy in the series 10 Questions for Landscape Architects.
10 questions for architects and landscape architectsProdukty dla Architekta – articles
Quizzes – articles
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