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Dala Restaurant / Znamy się

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

In Kraków's Kazimierz district, we designed a restaurant that transports guests into the atmosphere of Sweden. Its name, Dala, refers to the traditional wooden horse, dalahäst, which for centuries has been given during celebrations as a symbol of happiness and festivity. Just like the horse, the restaurant is meant to live by the rhythm of celebration, from everyday fika, through the summer festival of Midsommar, to evening gatherings in the spirit of mingel. The project was created for the founders of Kaffe Bageri Stockholm, who decided to move beyond the café formula and create a place where Swedish traditions could be experienced in a fuller and more atmospheric way.

House in White / UCEES

Andreas Luco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

An Iceberg House. A minimalist villa in Poland — The House in White, designed by the Polish UCEES studio, combines modern form with environmentally-friendly solutions and exceptional attention to detail.

Zsoms Sports Hall Cracow / eM4.Pracownia Architektury.Brataniec

Andreas Luco — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This gesture is both powerful and delicate. Instead of the anticipated courtyard development, we proposed demolishing the old too-small hall and the additions that have accrued over the years. Building a new hall in their place, preserves and unambiguously closes the courtyard, between the school, the playing fields, and the street.

Polish-Israeli Architect Zvi Hecker Passes Away at the Age of 92

Maria-Cristina Florian — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:30:00 +0000

Polish-Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, internationally recognized as an influential figure of Modernism in Israel, as well as a painter, illustration artist, and furniture designer, has passed away at the age of 92, as reported by Moderne Regional. Throughout his career, Hecker combined geometry and modularity with asymmetry and spiraling complex compositions inspired by the pattern of sunflower seeds, a recurring inspiration for his work. His complex geometric explorations are exemplified in a variety of projects on various scales and programs, including the Spiral Apartment House in Ramat Gan, Israel (1981–1989), the Heinz-Galinski-Schule in Berlin, Germany (1992–1995), and the crystal-like Synagogue in the Negev Desert, Military Academy, Israel, (1969).

City House / Kropka Studio + Klub architekci

Valeria Silva — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

“City house” is situated on the outskirts of Kraków, in the dense single-family houses neighborhood, with a great view over the hilly landscape of the Bielańsko – Tyniecki Landscape Park.

Boutique Warszauer Hotel / INDO Architekci

Valeria Silva — Mon, 09 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000

The boutique Warszauer Hotel has been opened at 10 Warszauera Street in Krakow's Kazimierz, the former Jewish district and one of Krakow’s most attractive tourist districts. The hotel building is located on a narrow frontage plot between an old 4-story tenement house and the 17th-century Kupa Synagogue, but complementing the existing downtown development.

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.

Heinle, Wischer und Partner Design a New Art Museum in Krakow, Poland

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 06:30:00 +0000

Among 78 international participants, Heinle, Wischer und Partner won the first prize in the design competition for the new building of the Stanisław Wyspiański Museum in Krakow, Poland. The project will be built, in the middle of the museum district of the city and next to the historic National Museum.

PURO Kraków Kazimierz Hotel / Conran and Partners

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 02:00:00 +0000

A new flagship hotel with interior design by Conran and Partners for Polish hotel group, PURO, has opened in Kraków. The 228-room hotel – which occupies a corner site in Halicka Street, Kazimierz, the city’s former Jewish quarter – provides a destination and curated experiences for local residents as much as for tourist and business guests.

Reclaiming Polish Brutalism: Discover the Emblems of Communism

Vasundhra Aggarwal — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000

To strip a city of its architecture is to erase its history altogether. Despite a widespread public distaste for Brutalism, the brutalist era in architecture often went hand in hand with political movements promising an egalitarian vision in post-Stalinist Poland. What may now be considered austere and overbearing was originally intended to be anything but; the buildings today carry both an appreciation for their legacy and the burden of unwanted memories.

Modern Manor / Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:00:00 +0000

A manor is an extremely important phenomenon for the Polish identity. For hundreds of years manors have been a characteristic element of the Polish landscape, a depositary of the Polish history and culture, centres of the gentry ethos and customs as well as national traditions and the struggle for the Polish identity. Almost since the very beginning of the state they had been built first as defensive knights dwellings, and later, since the middle of the seventeenth century, as modest – in comparison with palaces - residences of landowners. As compared to other European countries, there were relatively many small landed gentry mansions in Poland. One major threat to our culture and identity in Europe that started after 1939 is the process of removing historical manor houses and parks from the Polish landscape, what implies blurring of patriotic gentry values in the collective consciousness of the society. Polish manors demonstrate a great variety of architectural concepts implemented in different historical periods.

KS Cracovia 1906 Centennial Hall and Sports Center for the Disabled / Biuro Projektow Lewicki Łatak

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 04:00:00 +0000

The requirements of the precious site encouraged us to treat the planned hall as part of the existing landscape with all its distinctive features. The view from Focha Avenue – across the hall and towards Salwator Hill and the Church of the Holy Saviour – suggested to us the form of the northern facade of the building. The panoramic views of the nearby hill with Kościuszko Mound are visible from the building’s interior through the west elevation. The entrance lobby, lifted a meter higher than the pavement level of the adjacent Focha Avenue, looks out towards the Błonia meadow, above the passing car traffic. The hall forms part of this landscape, emerging right out the layered terrain. It connects the levels of the pavement along Focha Avenue and the path atop the Rudawa river dike with the ground floor and the rooftop terrace. It is on those multiple surfaces – horizontal and inclined, external and internal – where we realized the given functional brief.

AIM STUDIO Proposes Airplane-Wing-Inspired Design for Krakow's New Science Center

Kaley Overstreet — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000

London-based AIM STUDIO’s entry for the Małopolska Science Center in Krakow, Poland, was recently awarded second place. Responding to the competition's call for an iconic design for the center, the team proposed a structure that creates a new landmark which blurs the boundaries between landscape and building, while also taking into consideration the important historical context of the site.

Heinle, Wischer und Partner Awarded First Place in Małopolska Science Center Competition

Kaley Overstreet — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Heinle, Wischer und Partner's design for a triangular shaped building has been awarded first place in a competition to design the Małopolska Science Center in Krakow, Poland. The competition brief, which called for a design which would be both iconic and innovative, was responded with a proposal by the team that creates a new landmark for the Malopolska region of Poland.

Sustainable Proposal Envisions Krakow's New Science Center as a Tiered Garden

Evan Pavka — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:00:00 +0000

OVO Grąbczewscy Architekci's stacked garden-like proposal has been awarded third place in a competition for the new Małopolska Science Center in Krakow, Poland. The competition brief asked for the design of an innovative cultural institution with an iconic architectural form that would represent creativity, openness and independent thinking. As a reflection of both the city and the region, the center is also intended to provide a model for sustainable construction, energy efficiency, and education that inspires immersive visitor engagement.

Wireframe / MUS Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The character of the interior is created by skeleton of solids levitating in space. Black frames organize a functional program by emphasizing its components.

FAAB Architektura Fights Smog in Cracow with Proposed Music Academy

Niall Patrick Walsh — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:00:00 +0000

FAAB Architektura has designed a smog-fighting music academy on the site of a former military base in Cracow, Poland. In a city constantly tackling air pollution, FAAB has incorporated a 1300 square meter "Air Purifier" into their proposal, combating CO2 levels as effectively as 33,000 city trees. This system, however, is only one element in a music academy wholly integrated with its natural surroundings.

Konieczny's Ark / KWK PROMES

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The highest value of the plot is a wonderful view stretching out. The idea was for the house to become its framework that crops it. The most appropriate building turned out to be a fully open on mountain landscape one-storey building, which gives the same view to all of the interiors.