Relax & Business

10'20

fot.: Pepe Molina

Relax & Business

na okładce:
10'20

fot.: Pepe Molina

Malgorzata TOMCZAK

relaxation & business

In the 20th and 21st centuries, architecture related to leisure and recreation developed rapidly. The mighty of this world invested in and developed hotel chains and were patrons of global brands, just to mention the Pritzker family, founders of the most important architectural award in the world, owners of the Hyatt hotel chain.

As recent studies show, the post-pandemic reality has changed a lot, including the travel industry. We are increasingly less likely to choose large chain hotels. Rather, we opt for small cozy and intimate homes sunk in the beautiful landscape of mountains, coast or lakes, boutique urban hotels that guarantee intimacy. These enjoy unflagging popularity, perhaps also because they function in the DNA of cities as well-known addresses with well-liked restaurants, cafes and meeting places.

In the issue we present Nobu Hotel, opened in Warsaw in early August and owned by a luxury brand co-owned by Robert De Niro. In it, architects from the medusa group focused on combining Japanese minimalism with the sophisticated art déco style of interwar Warsaw. Also elegant and unique are the hotels of the Puro chain. ASW Architects, authors of the concepts for hotels in Lodz, Poznan and Krakow, looked for the story of a particular city in each project.

We also publish, among others: the mountain homes of The Boats (design: Karpiel Steindel Architektura); the Warsaw hotel (design: APA GBK); Campinus Park (design.: mo:delina™); canoe marina in Augustow (design: PSBA, INOONI), Hyttee rest house (design: Marlena Kilian, Marek Piojda); guesthouses on Wilcza Poreba (design: studio de materia).

Table of contents

events

Humanity is our customer [12].

Interview with Phineas Harper
interviewed by Ewa Szymczyk


Responsible action, or how to fix the world by design [18]

Interview with Fernand Laposse
interviewed by: Dominika Drozdowska


Museum from scratch? [24]

Interview with Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska about plans for the Warsaw Museum
interviewed by Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska


Inżynierska 3, or the history of Polish bohemia [30]

Warsaw tenements steeped in art
Anna WALEWSKA


Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum in Krakow [36].

"Best Diploma ARCHITECTURE" competition
Wioletta NOWAK


Space Station "Lem" [42].

Competition "Best Diploma Interior Design"
Inez SŁUGIEWICZ


newsboard [40-49]

books, patronages, invitations, company news


Toward boredom [40]

Review of the book "Everyday Boredom. Home as productive and unproductive space" by Alexandra Gordova
Blazej CIARKOWSKI


The everydayness of boredom [42]

Excerpts from Alexandra Gordova's book


  • Ludzkość to nasz klient [12] Rozmowa z Phineasem Harperem rozmawiała: Ewa Szymczyk
  • Odpowiedzialne działania, czyli jak projektowo naprawić świat [18] Rozmowa z Fernandem Laposse’em rozmawiała: Dominika Drozdowska
  • Muzeum od nowa? [24] Rozmowa z Karoliną Ziębińską-Lewandowską o planach związanych z Muzeum Warszawy rozmawiała: Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska
  • Inżynierska 3, czyli historia polskiej bohemy [30] Warszawskie kamienice przesiąknięte sztuką Anna WALEWSKA
  • Muzeum Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Krakowie [36] Konkurs „Najlepszy Dyplom ARCHITEKTURA” Wioletta NOWAK
  • Utkany w przestrzeni [38] Konkurs „Najlepszy Dyplom WNĘTRZA” Inez SŁUGIEWICZ

issue's theme

moodboard [56]

#hotel
#relaxation
#recreation


Nobu hotel played on many melodies [86]

Nobu Warsaw hotel
proj.: ASW Architects (Michał Ankiersztajn, Jarosław Wroński, Dariusz Stankiewicz)
Katarzyna MIKULSKA


Different facets of modernity [102]

Puro hotels
proj.: medusa group (Przemo Łukasik, Łukasz Zagała)
Katarzyna JAGODZIÑSKA


Recipe for success [122]

canoe base
proj.: PSBA (Przemyslaw Sokolowski), INOONI (Jakub Zygmunt), Martyna Lenart-Zygmunt
Marta KULAWIK


I torture until it's right [134]

with Szymon Januszewski of Insomia studio talks to Jakub GŁAZ


  • Moodboard
  • Hotel Nobu zagrany na wielu melodiach [86]
  • Różne odsłony nowoczesności [102]
  • Przepis na sukces [122]
  • Męczę, aż będzie dobrze [134]

Preview of the issue

 

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