Aside from being the first project built in Europe by the New York-based firm Thomas Phifer and Partners, the new building for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw – popularly known as MSN Warsaw – is the Museum’s first permanent home since its foundin
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
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
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 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.
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... [+]
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
Inspired by the silhouette of a bird’s flight, a stainless steel structure designed as a cascading rack holds modular drawers of 320 x 220 x 290 mm with a total of 90 nesting chambers. The tower functions also as a lamp and as an urban sculpture.
A perimeter and low rise volume connects the blocks of the existing built fabric organized in pedestrian superblocks of variable dimension; these absorb in their basement the parking lots, previously reduced in the public space.
El grupo de comunicación multimedia Agora, editor de la Gazeta Wyborcza —el diario de mayor tirada en Polonia—, convocó en 1998 un concurso para la construcción de su nueva sede en Varsovia. El proyecto ganador preserva la escala urbana de la zona en
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
La nómina de grandes estadios proyectados por GMP (Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner), iniciada con la reforma del olímpico de Berlín en 2004 (véase Arquitectura Viva 106) y engrosada con los de Ciudad del Cabo y Puerto Elizabeth para la Copa del Mundo de
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
