Results of the competition for the Best Public Space of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019.

Awards and distinctions of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship.

23 of October '19
Wyniki konkursu na Najlepszą Przestrzeń Publiczną Województwa Śląskiego 2019

Results of the competition for the Best Public Space of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019.

Photo: Bart Barczyk © organizers archives

We have already presented the winners of the Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019 competition. On October 22, we also recognized the winners of the annual competition for the Best Public Space in the Silesian Voivodeship. Congratulations to all the winners! [...]

We have already presented the winners of the Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019 competition. On October 22, we also recognized the winners of the [...]

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Katyn Museum the best public facility in Central and Eastern Europe

Success of BBGK Architects studio

Ola Kloc, 23 of October '19
Nagroda East Centric Architecture dla Muzeum Katyńskiego

East Centric Architecture award for Katyn Museum

Photo: Juliusz Sokolowski | illustrations courtesy of BBGK

The design of the Katyn Museum in Warsaw by BBGK Architekci studio has received the prestigious East Centric Architecture Triennale Award given at the Bucharest Architecture Triennale. Congratulations! [...]

The design of the Katyn Museum in Warsaw by BBGK Architekci studio has received the prestigious East Centric Architecture Triennale Award given at the Bucharest [...]

Tecnografica Italian Wallcoverings Wallpaper

New in the offer of Carpet Studio

22 of October '19
Tapety Tecnografica Italian Wallcoverings

Tecnografica Italian Wallcoverings Wallpaper

© Carpet Studio

Carpet Studio - an expert in floor design (Polish distributor of EGE carpets and Amtico LVT panels) - has just expanded its offerings to include Tecnografica Italian Wallcoverings wallpapers to comprehensively support customers in unconventional facility [...]

Carpet Studio - an expert in floor design (Polish distributor of EGE carpets and Amtico LVT panels) - has just expanded its offerings to include Tecnografica Italian [...]

Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019

Coffee break with Silesian architecture

22 of October '19
Architektura Roku Województwa Śląskiego 2019

Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship 2019

Photo: Juliusz Sokolowski | Illustrations courtesy of KWK Promes

Yesterday we announced the winners of this year's 25th edition of the Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship competition. Both buildings and interiors, completed by the end of 2018 on the territory of the Silesian Voivodeship or designed by architects from the region, could be submitted to the competition. [...]

Yesterday we announced the winners of this year's 25th edition of the Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship competition. Both buildings and interiors, [...]

Parks instead of parking lots!

Tri-City's new woonerfs and pocket parks

Ewa Karendys, 22 of October '19
Miasto na celowniku — TRÓJMIASTO

City on target - TRÓJMIASTO

Pocket parks, new squares or the Tri-City's first woonerf... Officials are increasingly willing to respond to residents' calls for attractive public spaces and more greenery in the city. Unfortunately, there are also still many examples of putting the comfort of motorists before the welfare of [...]

Pocket parks, new squares or the Tri-City's first woonerf... Officials are increasingly willing to respond to residents' calls for attractive public spaces and more [...]

We know the election results!

SARP branch presidents for the 2019-2023 term of office

22 of October '19

We have collected for you the list of presidents of local branches of the Association of Polish Architects elected for the term 2019-2023, congratulations to all of them! [...]

We have collected for you the list of presidents of local branches of the Association of Polish Architects elected for the term 2019-2023, congratulations to all of [...]

House in the meadow - a contemporary version of a Polish cottage

Modern single-family home

Ola Kloc, 22 of October '19
Dom na łące

House in the meadow

Photo: Kacper Ziolkowski © VERSO group

How to reconcile tradition with modernity? How to design a contemporary single-family house drawing inspiration from the form of a Polish cottage? Architects from the studio VERSO group faced this problem, designing a house on a meadow in the village of Cisie, Częstochowa County. [...]

How to reconcile tradition with modernity? How to design a contemporary single-family house drawing inspiration from the form of a Polish cottage? Architects from the [...]

A way to connect Krakow's remote districts

Student urban planning project

Dobrawa Bies, 22 of October '19
Wizualizacja strefy rekreacyjnej (zachód) projektowanych bulwarów wiślanych

Visualization of the recreational zone (west) of the designed Vistula boulevards

© Stanislaw Deńko, interns: Magdalena Sznajder, Katarzyna Mierzwińska, Mateusz Wieczorek, Wojtek Zakrzewski

A team of architecture students from the Cracow University of Technology, during their internship at the "Wizja" studio under the supervision of Stanislaw Deńko, developed a concept for a metropolitan [...]

A team of architecture students from the Cracow University of Technology, during their internship at the "Wizja" studio under the supervision of Stanislaw Deńko, [...]

New public spaces for Nowa Huta

International student workshop

21 of October '19
Nowa Huta, obszar projektowy

Nowa Huta, project area

© INT PPUZ archive in Nowy Targ

Students of the Podhale State Vocational University in Nowy Targ, for the third time, took part in an international, inter-university workshop on the new public spaces of Nowa [...]

Students of the Podhale State Vocational University in Nowy Targ, for the third time, took part in an international, inter-university workshop on the new public spaces [...]

Silesian minimalism, or white apartment buildings in Katowice

"Functional abstraction" by ZALEWSKI ARCHITECTURE GROUP project

Ola Kloc, 21 of October '19
Apartamentowce przy ulicy Złotej 19 w Katowicach

Apartment buildings at 19 Złota Street in Katowice

Photo: Tomasz Zakrzewski/Archifolio © ZALEWSKI ARCHITECTURE GROUP

Architects from the ZALEWSKI ARCHITECTURE GROUP studio have designed two modest white apartment buildings at 19 Zlota Street in Katowice, nominated in this year's edition of the Architecture of the Year competition of the Silesian Voivodeship. The lumps of the buildings are to be the architects' creative nod to Silesian modernism. [...]

Architects from the ZALEWSKI ARCHITECTURE GROUP studio have designed two modest white apartment buildings at 19 Zlota Street in Katowice, nominated in this year's [...]

Marta Lata on studying architecture in Switzerland

All about education - the best universities

21 of October '19

Marta Lata talks about the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in a series of podcasts in which Polish architecture, interior design and art students talk about their experiences at architecture universities [...]

Marta Lata talks about the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in a series of podcasts in which Polish architecture, interior design and art [...]

Steeped in history

A walk through Warsaw in the footsteps of ancient floors

21 of October '19
Spacer po Warszawie śladami dawnych posadzek

A walk through Warsaw in the footsteps of ancient floors

© Opoczno

Found in cafes, religious buildings and rental tenements, they are beautiful, though often bitten by the teeth of time. Produced decades ago in the factories of the Dziewulski and Lange company, whose traditions are continued by today's Opoczno, the various ceramic tiles have become an element of history written on the floors of the space around us. To this day they are preserved in many places on the map of Warsaw and other Polish cities. In our daily run we don't pay attention to them - but [...]

Found in cafes, religious buildings and rental tenements, they are beautiful, though often bitten by the teeth of time. Produced decades ago in the factories of the [...]

Medal for the creators of the Radio and Television Department in Katowice

Award named after Professor Zygmunt Majerski

21 of October '19
Nagroda imienia profesora Zygmunta Majerskiego

Award named after Professor Zygmunt Majerski

Photo: Kuba Czarnecki | illustrations courtesy of MAŁECCY design office

The winners of the award given by the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology, the Medal named after Professor Zygmunt Majerski, were this year: Joanna and Wojciech Małecki, BAAS studio and Group 5 Architects. Congratulations! [...]

The winners of the award given by the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology, the Medal named after Professor Zygmunt Majerski, were this year: [...]

Cosentino at Warsaw Home

Success of Spanish brand at Polish fair

20 of October '19
Cosentino na Warsaw Home

Cosentino at Warsaw Home

© COSENTINO

Inspiring conversations with architects, media representatives and bloggers, a perfectly designed and equipped kitchen and lounge area, an exposition of the latest offerings of large-format surfaces by Dekton and Silestone, breakfasts and lunches surprisingly rich in taste, prepared by master Alexander Baron - the recently concluded Warsaw Home was a spectacular success for Spanish brand Cosentino, which presented itself at the fair for the first time this [...]

Inspiring conversations with architects, media representatives and bloggers, a perfectly designed and equipped kitchen and lounge area, an exposition of the latest [...]

Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre - a mythopoetic space

proj.: Renato Rizzi

19 of October '19
Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski

Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre

© Renato Rizzi

Renato Rizzi's Gdansk Shakespeare Theater is a continuous story of boundary-setting. For the architecture establishes a real place for the theater, into which the contemplative space that belongs to the world of imagination is intentionally built. [...]

Renato Rizzi's Gdansk Shakespeare Theater is a continuous story of boundary-setting. For the architecture establishes a real place for the theater, into which the [...]

A good book on architecture

A series of meetings at the Silesian Library in Katowice

18 of October '19
Cykl spotkań „Dobra książka o architekturze”

Meeting series "A good book about architecture"

© organizers archive

What could be better than a good book? A good book about architecture! The Institute of Architecture Documentation of the Silesian Library in Katowice (and us together with it!) invites you to the inaugural meeting of the series "A good book about architecture". [...]

What could be better than a good book? A good book about architecture! The Institute of Architecture Documentation of the Silesian Library in Katowice (and us together [...]

Meditation at Lake Bezdibene

Project of silent meditation cabins in Latvian forest

Dobrawa Bies, 18 of October '19
Projekt Kabin Medytacji

Meditation Cabin Project

© Anna Jankowska

Anna Jankowska, a graduate of Bialystok University of Technology, designed forest cabins that allow for contemplation of nature and tranquility. The facilities are located in the heart of an old-growth forest by the picturesque Bezdibene [...]

Anna Jankowska, a graduate of Bialystok University of Technology, designed forest cabins that allow for contemplation of nature and tranquility. The facilities are [...]

Parisian chic - modern interior in a historic building - Anna Popiel-Moszyńska

Adaptation of an office into an apartment

Anna Popiel-Moszyńska, 18 of October '19
pokój dzienny z widokiem na kuchnię

living room overlooking the kitchen

In Paris, Polish architect Anna Popiel-Moszyńska of the Pomo.archi studio redesigned the space of a lawyer's office into a 220 m² apartment for a family with four children. She combined tradition with modernity, giving the space a charming and laid-back feel. [...]

In Paris, Polish architect Anna Popiel-Moszyńska of the Pomo.archi studio redesigned the space of a lawyer's office into a 220 m² apartment for a family with four [...]

Warsaw Home is not just a house

Summary of the fourth edition of the interiors fair

Ola Kloc, 17 of October '19
Targi wnętrz Warsaw Home 2019

Warsaw Home 2019 Interior Fair

Photo: Robert Wilczynski

The recently concluded fourth edition of Warsaw Home was extremely popular. In just four days, the interiors fair was visited by almost 75,000 guests! [...]

The recently concluded fourth edition of Warsaw Home was extremely popular. In just four days, the interiors fair was visited by almost 75,000 guests! [...]

Karol Wawrzyniak - briefly on the subject

From the series "10 questions to..."

Ola Kloc, 17 of October '19
10 pytań do… Karola Wawrzyniaka

10 questions for... Karol Wawrzyniak

Photo: Radosław Kazmierczak © TOPROJEKT

"10 Questions to..." is a weekly series of short conversations with architects and female architects, to whom we address the same pool of questions. In today's episode, we asked Karol Wawrzyniak of TOPROJEKT studio for answers. [...]

"10 Questions to..." is a weekly series of short conversations with architects and female architects, to whom we address the same pool of questions. In today's episode, [...]

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