Krakow
deadline for submitting works
02.09.2025Competition of the International Architecture Biennale Krakow 2025 "Re-Think".
organizer: SARP Krakow Branch

The International Architecture Biennale will be held in Krakow on October 10 and 11. Organized by the SARP Krakow Branch, the event - this year under the slogan "Re-Think " - is a forum for architects to exchange ideas and experience. The event is accompanied by an architectural competition - this time architects will face the challenge of transforming one of Krakow's most important spaces. The partner of the competition is the Waterworks of the City of Krakow.
purpose
The space at the foot of Wawel Hill has long been used as a car traffic backstop. After the removal of parking lots, it has a chance to be re-composed and drawn into the layout of public space both on the Vistula boulevards and around the castle. An additional impulse for change is the planned construction of a large underground rainwater retention reservoir.
The study area is delineated by a broken line covering Zwierzyniecka Street, Kossak Square, Powiśle, Podzamcze, Grodzka, Bernardyńska, Czerwiński Boulevard to Dębnicki Bridge. It is advisable in the competition work to make critical use of previous studies on the development of Kossak Square and the project for the arrangement of the Vistula Boulevards.
The project should seek the sense of the place, bring it out or develop it. An important element of the competition work is to define the function of the square created after the removal of the bus parking lot, as well as the associated tourist information pavilion. It is sought to indicate the function, define its shape (expansion, reconstruction) or recommend demolition and other arrangement of this part of the site.
terms and conditions
The competition is open and ideational (conceptual) in nature. Participation in the Biennial competition is open to all interested parties; it can be individual or team. Participation in the competition may be any person of legal age; no member of the jury, or persons related by blood, affinity or business interdependence, may participate in the competition.
Participation in the competition is free of charge.
A detailed description of the competition is contained in the regulations.
calendar
competition jury
The City of Krakow is represented by:
- Janusz Sepioł - architect, Architect of the City of Krakow
- Piotr Ziętara - President of the Waterworks of the City of Krakow
SARP is represented by:
- Justyna Dziedziejko - architect, topoScape, WAPW
- Urszula Forczek-Brataniec - landscape architect, associate dean of WAPW
- Bartosz Haduch - architect
- Jakub Krzysztofik - architect, President of SARP Lodz Branch
- Piotr Lorens - architect, Architect of the City of Gdansk
- Andrea Maffei - architect (Italy)
- Vladimir Šlapeta - architect (Czech Republic)
- Dominika Tihanyi - architect (Hungary)
- Katarzyna Urbańska - architect, Malopolska Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments
prizes
- First Prize - 50,000 PLN
- II Prize - 30,000 PLN
- III Prize - 20,000 PLN
more information
terms
https://mba2025.sarp.krakow.pl/konkurs/
regulations
https://mba2025.sarp.krakow.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/MBA2025-competition-terms.pdf