Wooden House, widok od strony zalewu

Wooden House, view from the side of the lagoon

© MWM Architekci

Wooden House is a multi-family building designed right on the banks of Rzeszow's lagoon. The bifurcated block by designers from MWM Architekci studio is to provide future residents with picturesque views and close contact with the environment. [...]

Wooden House is a multi-family building designed right on the banks of Rzeszow's lagoon. The bifurcated block by designers from MWM Architekci studio is to provide [...]

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Wnętrze salonu domu pod Poznaniem

Interior of the living room of a house near Poznań

fot.: tom Kurek © Katarzyna Kraszewska Architektura Wnętrz

Luxury, space, modernity and elegance - these were the design requirements set by the investors for interior designer Katarzyna Kraszewska. The thousand-square-meter house near Poznań is full of art, design, light and natural stone. [...]

Luxury, space, modernity and elegance - these were the design requirements set by the investors for interior designer Katarzyna Kraszewska. The thousand-square-meter [...]

Modern barn in minimalist design. House in Czeladz

Dobrawa Bies, 25 of January '21
Dom w Czeladzi

House in Czeladz

fot.: Bartosz Makowski © be3 pracownia projektowa

Simple, monolithic and economical in form - this is how the house in Czeladz can be described in three words. The goal of architects from be3 design studio was to create a building in the style of a minimalist and modern barn with a timeless character. [...]

Simple, monolithic and economical in form - this is how the house in Czeladz can be described in three words. The goal of architects from be3 design studio was to create [...]

białe wnętrze projektu Finchstudio

white interior design by Finchstudio

fot.: Ayuko Studio

White walls, white curtains, white accessories and even white floors. How to create an interesting and cozy interior with such a narrow repertoire of colors? Magdalena Kwoczka of Finchstudio managed to do it, who, operating with just a few colors in the interior design project of a house in Wroclaw, created an extremely warm and friendly space in a boho climate - Let's have a vacation! [...]

White walls, white curtains, white accessories and even white floors. How to create an interesting and cozy interior with such a narrow repertoire of colors? Magdalena [...]

4Design Days online. Thematic session - apartments

REHAU at the Pre-Opening of 4Design Days

Dobrawa Bies, 23 of January '21
Meble z wykorzystaniem produktów REHAU

Furniture using REHAU products

© REHAU

How have the housing needs of Poles changed? What are they looking for when choosing a property? What do they consider a "must have" and what are they giving up? A series of discussions by architects is already underway this week at the 4DD virtual panel. The session will be hosted by Mirella Firchał-Kępczyńska and Marcin Kępczyński, interior designers, authors of the "Mirella and Marcin" channel and hosts of the "Couple in Renovation" program. [...]

How have the housing needs of Poles changed? What are they looking for when choosing a property? What do they consider a "must have" and what are they giving up? A [...]

Office Wawel drowns in concrete

Kraków's completed Skeletor and its surroundings

Kacper Kępiński, 22 of January '21
Unity Tower

Unity Tower

Krakow has waited almost half a century for the completion of Skeletor. However, the complex transformed according to BE DDJM's design into Unity Centre disappoints in many respects. The attention to detail ends with the skyscraper towering over the whole. Everything around it - remains a severely mediocre building, unsuited to the stature of the development. Most disappointing, however, is the public space, the design of which sets back the discussion of this type of place by several [...]

Krakow has waited almost half a century for the completion of Skeletor. However, the complex transformed according to BE DDJM's design into Unity Centre disappoints in [...]

Good or bad revitalization of green spaces in Swidnica?

Katarzyna Oczkowska, 22 of January '21
Rewitalizacja Parku Centralnego w Świdnicy

Revitalization of the Central Park in Swidnica

© Urząd Miejski w Świdnicy

Another winning project selected during the 14th edition of the Society of Polish Town Planners' competition for the best urban and architectural projects in Poland is the revitalization of green areas in Świdnica. This investment received the first prize in the category of Revitalized Green Public Space, but there were also very critical voices in connection with this investment [...]

Another winning project selected during the 14th edition of the Society of Polish Town Planners' competition for the best urban and architectural projects in Poland is [...]

Włoska wioska Bussolino i jej tradycyjna zabudowa

The Italian village of Bussolino and its traditional buildings

© Dagmara Pasińska

Dagmara Pasinska, a graduate of the Technical University of Lodz, has taken up the subject of contemporary nomadism and coliving on the example of the tiny Italian village of Bussolino. Wanting to stop invasive weekend tourism, she created a project for a new place to live, work and rest, not only for its permanent residents. [...]

Dagmara Pasinska, a graduate of the Technical University of Lodz, has taken up the subject of contemporary nomadism and coliving on the example of the tiny Italian [...]

Śląskie Mieszkanie

Silesian Housing

fot.: Ewa Kania

White, black and cobalt. These three colors dominate the Silesian Apartment - an interior in one of Katowice's blocks of apartments from the 1960s. Magda Bajor, an architect from Keokeo Studio, when designing this space, gave it a modern character by playing boldly and uncompromisingly with forms, textures and materials, creating a coherent, though contrasting interior. [...]

White, black and cobalt. These three colors dominate the Silesian Apartment - an interior in one of Katowice's blocks of apartments from the 1960s. Magda Bajor, an [...]

Dom 40 i 4

House 40 and 4

© Autograf studio

A monolith levitating in space and seeming to defy the laws of physics is the House 40 and 4 by architects from Autograf studio. The unusual block made entirely in reinforced concrete technology is being built in the Silesian Beskid, and its form was inspired by literature, among other things. [...]

A monolith levitating in space and seeming to defy the laws of physics is the House 40 and 4 by architects from Autograf studio. The unusual block made entirely in [...]

Interiors 2.0, or how Poles' needs have changed in times of pandemonium. Online conference

Castorama conference for architects, designers and interior design professionals

Dobrawa Bies, 22 of January '21
Plakat wydarzenia

Event poster

© archiwum organizatorów

Architecture and Business has taken patronage of the online meeting, which will take place on January 28 this year. During the conference, experts from the interior design industry will talk about new customer needs and the most important changes and challenges in decorating home spaces in [...]

Architecture and Business has taken patronage of the online meeting, which will take place on January 28 this year. During the conference, experts from the interior [...]

Składowisko opon

Tire landfill

©krzysztofkalinowsky | pixabay

As with smog, the fight against nuisance waste is on the minds of many people, including architects and urban planners. Without proper regulations and laws, architects, however much they want to, will not be able to implement their solutions to the problem. Garbage is increasing. Those legal, illegal, Polish and secretly smuggled in from abroad. How to organize the space of cities in accordance with sustainable waste management, when this simply does not [...]

As with smog, the fight against nuisance waste is on the minds of many people, including architects and urban planners. Without proper regulations and laws, architects, [...]

Award for the Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oswiecim

Katarzyna Oczkowska, 21 of January '21
Park Pamięci Wielkiej Synagogi w Oświęcimiu

Memorial Park of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim.

fot. Piotr Strycharski

In the recently concluded 14th edition of the Society of Polish Town Planners' competition for the best urban and architectural projects in Poland, the prize in the category of Public Space in Greenery went to the Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oswiecim. Its initiator is the Auschwitz Jewish Center, and the project was able to come into being thanks to the commitment of many individuals and institutions and the online collection [...]

In the recently concluded 14th edition of the Society of Polish Town Planners' competition for the best urban and architectural projects in Poland, the prize in the [...]

Makieta Ogrodów Urlicha

A mock-up of Urlich Gardens

© WXCA

The green light has been given to a project to revitalize the area in front of the Wola Park shopping center in Warsaw! Architects from the WXCA studio are responsible for the concept. Restoration work is just beginning on the Ulrich Greenhouses, which are part of the restored complex of the historic Ulrich Gardens. They will reopen in the future as a space for rest, recreation, education and cultural encounters. [...]

The green light has been given to a project to revitalize the area in front of the Wola Park shopping center in Warsaw! Architects from the WXCA studio are responsible [...]

Multitasking desk, or be active at work

Dobrawa Bies, 21 of January '21
Biurko wielozadaniowe

Multitasking desk

© Paweł Retkowski

Pawel Retkowski, a graduate of interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, designed a multi-purpose desk for sitting and standing work. His goal was to create such a piece of furniture that would induce the user to change position, and thus take care of the correct posture of the body, influencing more effective work. [...]

Pawel Retkowski, a graduate of interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, designed a multi-purpose desk for sitting and standing work. His goal was to create [...]

"I run a business to design buildings. Not the other way around."

10 questions for Karol Zurawski

Ola Kloc, 21 of January '21
10 pytań do Karola Żurawskiego

10 questions for Karol Zurawski

© Karol Żurawski, atelier projektowe

Karol Żurawski - a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he currently teaches design. He gained professional experience by working for four years in the Swiss studio of Peter Zumthor, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize. Since 2015, he has been running his own design atelier in Warsaw. [...]

Karol Żurawski - a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he currently teaches design. He gained professional experience [...]

Books require a special space. Not just any warehouse, but a real shelter that will give them a chance to survive for centuries to come. Literature, as an essential part of our culture's DNA, needs to be taken care of, also in the physical sense of the word. A new Museum of Literature building designed by Atelier Tektura has been put into [...]

Books require a special space. Not just any warehouse, but a real shelter that will give them a chance to survive for centuries to come. Literature, as an essential part [...]

Natalia Bienias z kanału by Zebza w cyklu Pobudki

Natalia Bienias from the channel by Zebza in the series Awakenings

© archiwum organizatorów

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's time for another Awakenings, or morning conversations about career beginnings, college time, childhood and future plans with well-known people from the creative industry, held as part of the Street Cloud project organized by the anti-RAMA collective. [...]

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's time for another Awakenings, or morning conversations about career beginnings, college time, childhood and future plans with [...]

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