KWK Promes   Czech Republic   In Ostrava, capital of the Czech region of Moravia-Silesia, the Polish firm founded by Robert Konieczny, KWK Promes, was entrusted to transform a slaughterhouse that was in a state of ruin into an art gallery. In the superposition of layers showing t

BDR Architekci   Poland   The municipal cemetery of Radom dates back to 1957 and is currently among Poland's largest. It was to curb this necropolis's rapid expansion into surrounding woodland that a columbarium, with its more compact burial form, was built. Combining prefab

JRK72   Poland   Jacek Krych, Michal Nawrot, and Joanna Urbanowicz of the Polish firm JRK72 designed this pavilion that merges into the Arboretum, a botanical garden that belongs to the Warsaw Agricultural University Sciences (SGGW). Open to the public, this haven fo

KWK Promes   Poland   The argument of this house is the search for the best views of the bucolic landscape surrounding it, and that is why all the rooms open up to two huge panoramic windows cut out of the volume’s two longest sides.

Fernando Menis   Poland   Located in the small Polish city of Torun – whose old quarter is on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1997 – the Jordanki Cultural and Congress Center goes up in a green ring around the historic center and looks out onto the river. This strategic

On view from 7 December to 17 January at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin is ‘Menis Backstage: Nature, Culture and Materiality.’ The exhibition delves into the creative processes of the Canarian practice whose architectural work is grounded upo