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Non-Commercial Cultural Hub / IPA Filip Kozarski + Roark Studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Grid Arthub is located in Hall 31B, a late 19th-century industrial building in the Gdańsk Shipyard, a site historically associated with both shipbuilding and the Solidarity movement. The project began with an intention to preserve the hall's layered identity while introducing a flexible contemporary program that could support the growing creative sector in Gdańsk. The inspiration came from the building's long and changing history. Over time, it served as a wood-drying plant, mess hall, boxing gym, and office space. Rather than erasing these traces, the design sought to work with them, maintaining a sense of continuity while opening the interior to new uses.

15 Landscaped Offices With Garden Space For Free-Range Employees to Roam

James Wormald — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:30:00 +0000

Representing 32% of the global population, Generation Z (those born between 1995 – 2010) accounts for a healthy chunk of the workforce (27% by 2025 and rising every year). These are the fresh young minds employers are fighting to attract. With prospective employers’ impact on society (93%) and a healthy work/life balance (77%) the two biggest motivators in deciding where Gen Z’ers want to work, a large part of any new office building’s design brief is green space.

Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk / WAPA Warsztat Architektury Pracownia Autorska

Paula Pintos — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

The modernization of the Main Building of the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk was a very difficult, arduous but also extremely fascinating task for me and my team. The studio's portfolio includes theater, opera and performance buildings but none of them was so close and so personal to us. We started the design work in 2015 with the winning competition for the new auditorium and practically, with varying intensity, we continued it until July of this year.

Zosia's House / IFA Kamil Domachowski IFAgroup

Andreas Luco — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:00:00 +0000

The project, carried out by architects from the IFA Group, is located in one of the residential estates of single-family houses in Gdańsk. The architecture of the new houses in the area is highly diverse in terms of spatial order and aesthetics. Proportions for the building were drawn from the surrounding environment, and the color of the facade was inspired by the colors of the land on which the house stands. The design aimed to simplify the form of the building, eliminating unnecessary decorations. Every decision made during the design process has its own rationale.

Riverview Complex / APA Wojciechowski Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The Riverview complex comprises seven buildings connected by an inner courtyard. Its urban layout features many openings facing the Main City and the Ołowianka river, making the structure light, flowing, and seamlessly fitting into the neighborhood. At the same time, when seen from the street’s perspective, the complex forms a compact frontage.

Exotic Workplace Garden / Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape

Alexandria Bramley — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The garden is the heart of the Olivia Business Center office complex with its area of over 200,000 sq. meters, for nearly 12,000 people. The building is located in the business district of Poland’s Tri-City and is one of the most modern facilities in Poland.

The Brutalist Architecture that Shaped Poland's Urban Landscapes

Andreea Cutieru — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Recent years have prompted a rediscovery and a re-framing of some of the more controversial architectural phenomenons of the past century, with Brutalist architecture coagulating significant interest through its sheer scale, powerful expression and purist forms. Brutalist architecture across the former Eastern Bloc is inextricably associated with the totalitarian regimes that marked the history of this part of Europe during the last half of the 20th century. Following in line with the architecture of the Eastern Bloc, Poland’s urban landscape is dotted with large-scale prefab housing estates and stark brutalist public buildings constructed during the country’s Communist rule.

Forum Gdańsk / SUD Polska

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Forum Gdansk is a new, modern shopping destination, situated in the inner city of Gdansk. Forum Gdansk combines a huge variety of retail, leisure, cultural spaces and gastronomy. The conception also provides a new public transport hub and lots of green public spaces. Forum Gdansk is a masterpiece of design, engineering and water management, it includes an underground rail platform, the Radunia Canal has been restored to its original state. Forum features 62,000 m2 GLA for retail, a multi-screen cinema, leisure facilities, restaurants, and 1,100 parking spaces. The Polish branch of renowned French construction designers SUD Architectes was responsible for the detailed architectural plan based on a concept by T+T Design.

Henning Larsen Release Images of Revitalized Shipyard District in Gdansk, Poland

Niall Patrick Walsh — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Henning Larsen has released images of their proposed urban development for the historic Imperial Shipyard at Gdansk, Poland. The 4.3million-square foot (400,000-square-meter) development seeks to transform the shipyard, built in 1844, into a “powerful financial and social engine building a thriving, mixed-use, inner-city neighborhood by the waterfront that is alive around the clock.”

Museum of the Second World War / Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 31 May 2017 02:00:00 +0000

The Museum of the Second World War is built on a lot at Władysław Bartoszewski Square near the centre of the city. It is located in a symbolic architectural space, which is also a space of memory, 200 metres from the historic Polish Post Office in Gdańsk and 3 kilometres across the water from Westerplatte Peninsula, both of which were attacked in September 1939.

Intercollegiate School of Biotechnology / Warsztat Architektury Pracownia Autorska Krzysztof Kozłowski

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The form of the building is determined by two main assumptions; The new building of the School of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk has to meet all the complex functional requirements that influence the quality of scientific work and the building has to be both a coherent part of the new university campus and an example of modern architecture that represents advanced, specialized field of science.

Construction of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk Nears Completion

Eric Oh — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0000

Five years after Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat's design was selected as the winner, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland is nearing completion, with a deadline set for Summer 2016. Presenting the narrative of the Second World War in a comprehensive way, the museum will focus specifically on the war’s impact on the everyday life of civilians and soldiers. The choice of Gdańsk as the site of the museum is also significant – not only was it where the war broke out, it was also where Solidarity emerged during the post-war division of the world.

KAMJZ and Kurylowicz Designs Polish Office Building

Patricia Arcilla — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:00:08 +0000

Warsaw-based firms KAMJZ and Kurylowicz & Associates have shared their proposal for an office building in Poland, as part of the Gdańsk Central Business District Development Strategy. Centrally located at the interchange of several arterial roads and public transit routes, the complex will house a mixed-use program combining office spaces with retail, leisure, sport, and civic functions.

Gdansk Shakespearean Theatre / Renato Rizzi

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Two fundamental assumptions converge in the project: first, historical nature; the second, political-cultural nature.

Public Toilet Unit / Schleifer & Milczanowski Architekci

Alison Furuto — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:00:44 +0000

The Schleifer & Milczanowski Architekci team was asked to prepare several conceptual designs of a prefabricated public convenience unit and to develop a feasibility study for the project. In the future, the project deliverables were supposed to serve as the basis for developing a technical design of a reproducible Gdańsk-specific public convenience. The aim was to create a prefabricated construction that requires minimum earthworks. The public toilet was to be semiautomatic, for use all year round and easy to operate. In architectural terms, they were required to do something seemingly impossible – to create an exceptional building that would suit not only the historical surroundings but also modern city districts. The building should thus suit everywhere. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Gdańsk Historic Heritage Center / Mariusz Piesik + Kuba Szymański

Alison Furuto — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:00:48 +0000

Gdańsk Historic Heritage Center, designed by Mariusz Piesik and Kuba Szymański, is meant to be a multifunctional building and a part of targ sienny / targ rakowy complex – a new project in the very center of Gdańsk, Poland. The building’s main purpose is to host an exhibition of a large scale model of a pre-World War II center of the city and mark the starting point of tourist excursions around it’s streets. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Quarter Cultural Center / Mikolai Adamus

Alison Furuto — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:56:39 +0000

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.

The Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland winner announced

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:16 +0000

The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdańsk, the city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects Piotr Płaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based BETAPLAN S.A.