Courtesy of Office Building with Shopping Mall

The south of Warsaw is a chaotic neighborhood with different architecture styles, varying building heights and a big amount of green areas that spread between them without any clearly defined shape and order. At some point, it stopped being a dormitory and more people started to settle there for good. Therefore, a necessity for a new city center with office spaces and retail areas appeared. The proposed form of the design by MJZ | Maciej Jakub Zawadzki organizes all these factors to bring some order into this chaos. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Tomasz Zakrzewski

Architects: RS + Robert Skitek 
Location: Cracow, Poland
Project Team: Robert Skitek, Robert Wilczok, Paulina Bełoniak, Michał Lisiński, Barbara Kotas, Dawid Marszolik
Structure: PROBEX Marian Urbanik
Completion: 2011
Project Area: 475 sqm
Photographs: Tomasz Zakrzewski 

   
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© Tomasz Zakrzewski

Architect: RS+ Robert Skitek
Location: Tychy, Poland
Project Team: Robert Skitek, Robert Wilczok, Barbara Kotas, Dawid Marszolik
Structure: PROBEX Marian Urbanik
Completion: 2011
Project area: 371 sqm
Model: Piotr Witański
Photographs: Tomasz Zakrzewski

   
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Courtesy of Aleksander Wadas

The main idea of the Multi-functional Pavilions by Aleksander Wadas is to create public spaces with social functions like culture, recreation, sports.  They would be built with temporary pavilions of minor scale that can be easily fitted in the existing urban tissue, would have light components and could be mobile . They could be places where people could take some fitness exercises, take part in workshops or expositions or just rest. More images and project description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects has recently won the international architectural competition to design a 188 meter office tower in the financial district of central Warsaw, Poland. The 60,000 m2 high-rise building is to replace the existing ‘Ilmet’ building and will stand out as a modern landmark clearly identifiable in the Warsaw skyline by its unique elegant shape and appearance. The Jury was impressed by the high quality and innovation evident in the urban, architectural and technical concepts of the winning design. The future building will offer a number of attractive public areas and serve to complement the project’s prominent setting, as well as the entire neighborhood.

Sustainability was an important issue as the building is designed to reduce energy consumption with the goal of qualifying for the highest levels of sustainability certifications as BREEAM Excellent or LEED Gold status. More images and project description after the break. read more »

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Designed in an undeveloped plot in Gdynia, Poland, the housing concept by Mikolai Adamus and Igor Brozyna is based on the idea of tissue as group of elements cooperating with each other. The area is divided into plots of shapes that occur in the neighborhood. Instead of being placed on separate parcels, houses are grouped into settlements, allowing to achieve a diverse public park between. More images and project description after the break. read more »

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Architects: BudCud and Marcin Kwietowicz
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Client: Fiu Fiu Concept Magdalena Wołosz
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 31 sqm
Photographs: Jan Smaga

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© Sebastian Oleksik

Architects: Przemek Kaczkowski & Ola Targonska
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Structural Engineering: Slawomir Pruchnik
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 253 sqm
Photographs: Sebastian Oleksik

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Global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan has revealed the concept design for the first 21st Century shopping centre in the northern Polish city of Elbląg and wider region, which will see the city and region host international retail brands for the first time, and create over 1,000 jobs. More images and project description after the break. read more »

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Architects: Major Architekci
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Collaborators: Aleksandra Doniec, Joanna Omylska, Anna Owsiany, Alicja Adamowicz, Magdalena Kluz, Mariusz Borowiec, Slawomir Lazewski, Kamila Jacyniuk, Pawel Major, Joanna Nosal
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 2,800 sqm
Photographs: Daniel Rumiancew

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Courtesy of xm3

Architect: xm3
Location: Łódź, Poland
Project team: Maciej Kurkowski, Julian Nieciecki, Mateusz Wójcicki
Client: Eudezet S.C.
Project Area: 104 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Paulina Sasinowska (smileUPyourself), Mateusz Wójcicki

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‘Avant-garde of tomorrow?‘ which is an exhibition on young Polish architecture, will inaugurate the opening of the Centre for Architecture and Design in Łódź, Poland on October 7th. The exhibition gathers 14 of most promising Polish designers and puts focus on individual design process rather than the final product. They prefer to observe how all the participants achieve their goal and which path they take. Whether it’s a generative process or traditional way of form-finding, the exhibition aims to bring these processes closer to a wider audience. More information on the event after the break. read more »

Courtesy of mode:lina architekci

Architects: mode:lina architekci
Location: Leszno, Poland
Photographs: Courtesy of United Chicken

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Courtesy of Centrala

In Warsaw, Poland in the district of Wola lies a small crack of space between the buildings on 22 Chłodna Street and 74 Żelazna Street.  Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala, recognized the potential to create something unique within this narrow area, and derived a design of an art installation entitled Keret House. The house upon completion shall become the narrowest house in Warsaw, measuring an interior that will vary between 122 centimeters and 72 centimeters in its narrowest spot.

Architects: Centrala
Location: Wola, Poland
Designer: Jakub Szczęsny
Project Area: 14,5 sqm
Project Year: December 2011
Project Curators: Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak
Project Announcement: Wola Art Festival “CityProjectWola“
Organizers: Modern Polish Art Foundation, President Piotr Nowicki, Wola District Office of the Capital City of Warsaw; Coordinator Anna Fiszer-Nowacka; Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Warszawie, Coordinator Judyta Nekanda-Trepka

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Courtesy of Mikolai Adamus

Mikolai Adamus shared with us his design for the Quarter Cultural Center located in Gdansk, Poland. The main idea was to supplement the empty square with tissue which surrounds the site for a more intimate and open expression. More images on the project after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Igor Brożyna

This proposal for a Hotel and Spa was designed by Igor Brożyn. Located in an open landscape in Gdynia, Poland, this project has the advantage of the seclusion of a natural setting for its visitors.

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© Marcin Ratajczak

Architects: mode:lina
Location: Poznań, Poland
Interior design: Jerzy Woźniak, Paweł Garus of mode:lina architektura & consulting
Project area: 100,1 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Marcin Ratajczak

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© Zalewski Architecture Group

Architects: Zalewski Architecture Group
Location: Gliwice, Poland
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Zalewski Architecture Group

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© S.Polański

Architects: Biuro Projektów Architektonicznych – Jan Pallado, Aleksander Skupin
Location: Katowice, Poland
Project area: 1,074 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: S.Polański

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© KWK Promes

Architects: KWK Promes - Robert Konieczny
Location: Pszczyna, Poland
Photographs: Courtesy of KWK Promes

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