The Polish firm Dom Architektow -- founded by the married couple Walenty Durka and Emilia Durka-Zielińskaha – has developed a timber system of modular dwellings. The DA House combines simplicity and prefabricated construction with recyclable and eco
House Wolin was built as a holiday retreat embedded in the pastoral landscape of Poland’s Baltic Sea coast, an area of mild and humid winters and fresh summers with lots of rain. The house has three levels, each one with its own features. The ground
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
This new facility for breeding and training horses in the Ludwiczak Stables, in the Polish village of Jaroszewo, blends with the rural surroundings, respecting the diversity of the materials, shapes, and scales of existing constructions. Continuing t
Norman Foster’s firm – in collaboration with Buro Happold – has won the competition to design the new CPK (Centralny Port Komunikacyjny) airport between the Polish cities of Warsaw and Lodz. Their proposal seeks a balance between operational efficien
Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra
A scheme drawn up by the practice of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten has been placed first in the competition to build a film industry hub in the Polish city of Toruń. Among the 41 other contestants was Kengo Kuma, who capped the second prize. The pr
Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic
This atelier for the Polish sculptor Monika Sosnowska is the first built work of the Swiss firm Architecture Club, set up in 2017 by Karolina Slawecka (Warsaw, 1980) and Pawel Krzeminski (Warsaw, 1981), who had previously worked in the offices of Pet
Taking advantage of a preexisting construction in disuse which was supposed to be demolished, the project creates a volume and clads it with an abstract lattice of local ceramic blocks.
Right at the intersection of two major urban axes rises this iconic tower of mixed uses that include offices, hotel accommodation, a restaurant, and retail spaces within the plinth.
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
Mlode Miasto is a palimpsest of the history of the Polish city of Gdansk, and the project foresees the construction of a new mixed-use district on it, the identity of which is built around heritage, configuring a rich network of public spaces. The 40
The German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 was one of the most atrocious episodes of the already in itself atrocious Second World War. Not only did it wipe out the country’s Jewish population; it also carried out the systematic destruction of
Surrounded by military constructions and connected to a dramatic accessway made of concrete walls, a forest of oak trees grows in Warsaw to commemorate the Katyn Massacre.
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.
The renovation of the building uses its corner configuration to form a new skin of cast concrete panels and glass panes that has the effect of enhancing the urban character of the complex.
The project involved the refurbishment of an abandoned old mine, reinstating heavy industry and mining as two of the main signs of identity of the city of Katowice.
On the shore of Vistula River, the project proposes a longitudinal piece of Cor-ten steel over two levels: one of transit where multimedia devices are placed and that functions as an urban museum, and an upper one that works as a viewpoint... [+]
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
The two totally collapsible steel wings that form the Elizabethan theater’s roof rise to show an open-air space; the maximum height that these wings reach (24 meters) is a result of the complex’s strict modular make-up.
The new Terminal 1 of Frédéric Chopin International Airport in the Polish capital has been inaugurated, following works carried out by the Spanish office of Carlos Lamela. With capacity to serve 12.5 million people a year, the concourse has been reno
Like a glacier splinter trapped in the heart of the city, the building gives character to an area that was much destroyed by bombings of the Allied air forces during World War II.
According to statistics gathered by the World Health Organization, as much as 93% of the children of the world are constantly breathing in polluted air. Airbubble is a project developed by the London firm ecologicStudio that endeavors to address this
The air breathed by an average Pole may not be Europe’s dirtiest. According to the European Environment Agency, Balkan nations like Serbia do worse on metrics like years of life lost per person. However, Poland’s effluvia stand out for their geograph
Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic
The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic
La amplia retrospectiva ‘Un mundo construido: Polonia 1918-1939’ muestra, hasta el 15 de mayo en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, las aportaciones de la vanguardia constructivista polaca en el periodo comprendido entre las dos guerras mundiales.
La capital polaca cuenta con una nueva embajada británica. El estudio de Tony Fretton, responsable del proyecto —y autor del reciente Museo de Arte Fuglsang en Dinamarca, publicado en Arquitectura Viva 127— ha concebido un edificio horizontal de form
El tinerfeño Fernando Menis ha resultado ganador del concurso internacional convocado para la construcción del centro cultural polifuncional Jordanek en la ciudad de Torun, Polonia. Su propuesta deja como parque la mitad del solar y divide el program
