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Trends involving remote workspaces have heightened since 2020. While businesses worldwide learned to adjust and create remote working spaces that work best for them, architectural designer and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Agnieszka Białek, proposes a workspace alternative... View full entry
Designed by Poland-based Karpiel Steindel Architecture, a series of modest cottages situate themselves within the Polish landscape, with a mountain backdrop to the north, and panoramic views to the south. The homes resemble mountain huts and have been dubbed "The Boats," for their boat-like form... View full entry
MVRDV has completed construction of Concordia Design, a mixed-use building filled with co-working spaces, an event venue, a food hall, a café, and a rooftop terrace. The project is located on Słodowa Island in Wrocław, Poland and entails the renovation and extension of a 19th-century... View full entry
Settled in an expansive northern Poland landscape, amidst nearby lakes, and inspired by the local regional architecture, Green Line, a home designed by Przemek Olczyk of Studio Mobius, embraces the grassy plains of Warmia, Poland. Photo: Paweł Ulatowski Photo: Paweł Ulatowski The... View full entry
In this hyper-visual world, it's becoming more challenging to keep the general public informed and engaged with pressing issues, specifically issues relating to the environment. The quickly changing landscapes, rising sea levels, and temperature fluctuations should be enough of a warning for... View full entry
Polish based design studio Superhelix creates a green roof masterpiece that not only highlights the home's ecological design, but showcases what happens to buildings when they change over time. Located in Krakow, Poland the 189 square meter home's slanted roof was not built for aesthetics, but... View full entry
Located in the busy city of Shanghai is a tranquil villa that transports you into a lucid state of living. Kos Architects in collaboration with Atelier Zerebecky, have recently completed construction of Cloud Villa. The blissfully serene three-story home exudes a peacefully private... View full entry
Today, MVRDV unveiled their proposed design to transform a 19th-century heritage building into the Concordia Hub on Slodowa Island in Wroclaw, Poland. With most of Slodowa Island's buildings destroyed during the Siege of Breslau in World War II followed by a handful of other buildings being... View full entry
MVRDV’s new project, Fabryczna Offices, will house both office and retail space in the center of Łódź, Poland's third largest city. The firm's design draws inspiration from the city’s industrial textile heritage reimagined for contemporary use. The 13-floor building uses the distinct... View full entry
Turning iconicity on its head, MVRDV have designed a striking building that purposefully refuses easy categorization. Depending on the angle from which it is viewed, the Baltyk Tower seems to assume different forms, a look that is achieved by a series of scenic terraces and a rippling... View full entry
The Krakow Academy of Music recently announced Gehry Partners as the winner of a competition to design the school's new complex of educational facilities and main concert hall, which will be built on a former military site in the southern part of Krakow's Grzegórzki district.When the Krakow... View full entry
At 53 stories tall, the Foster + Partners-designed Varso Tower is set to become the tallest building Poland. Construction has just begun on the office tower, which is being developed by HB Reavis and is part of a complex that includes two other buildings designed by Hermanowicz Rowski Architects... View full entry
The 2016 World Architecture Festival has come to a close. After a final round of presentations and jury critiques for the Day One and Two category winners, the National Museum in Szczecin in Poland made it to the top as the ninth recipient of the coveted World Building of the Year. Designed by... View full entry
The Palace of Culture and Science, a 237 meter tall socialist realist high-rise, towers over the city of Warsaw, Poland. Given as a “gift” to the Polish people by the Soviet Union, the building was originally called the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science. It was built between 1952 and... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Figueras International Seating. Katowice, a city of 300,000 inhabitants in the South of Poland, wants to leave its past of mining industry behind. In the heart of the city, and on what was formerly a mine and its inevitable mountains of mining residue, today we find... View full entry