IAA honours Libeskind

Architecture and urban planning
WORLD Daniel Libeskind, an architect with Polish roots, has become a member of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA), a non-governmental advisory organisation within the UN Economic and Social Council.
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Membership of the IAA has been awarded in recognition of his lifetime achievement and visionary accomplishments in architecture. The most famous of Libeskind’s designs include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center in Hong Kong, the Crystals retail complex which is part of the MGM Mirage centre in Las Vegas, Dancing Towers in Seoul and a design of the memorial Ground Zero on the site of the World Trade Center towers in New York. In Warsaw, he designed the Złota 44 residential tower, which is currently under construction.

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Office & mixed-use development

Poland Hoerbiger to move to SOHO

schedule 10 February 2026
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International engineering firm Hoerbiger has leased nearly 200 sqm of office space in SOHO by Yareal in Warsaw on the ground floor of the Rubin building. The company is to officially move in in May this year.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Ingram Micro renews lease with MLP

schedule 10 February 2026
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Ingram Micro, one of the leading global distributors of IT solutions and mobile devices, has renewed its lease at the MLP Pruszków II logistics centre, for around 8,200 sqm of modern warehouse and office space. The deal was brokered by CBRE.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Olmed signs up with Panattoni

schedule 10 February 2026
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Panattoni has signed an agreement with a new tenant for its urban development in Łódź. Olmed, which operates a pharmacy and online drugstore, has taken up 9,500 sqm of space in City Logistics Łódź VI.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany KPE to deliver 40,000 sqm near Dortmund

schedule 10 February 2026
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Kajima Properties Europe (KPE) has broken ground on a new logistics project in Germany, a 40,000 sqm speculative warehouse development. The business acquired the 12.1 ha remediated brownfield site in Hagen near Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, in December 2025.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tieto moves to studio A

schedule 09 February 2026
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Tieto, a Scandinavian IT services company, will move into the Studio A office building on ul. Prosta in Warsaw.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Low completions, more tenant activity

schedule 09 February 2026
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The office market in Poland is seeing a significant decline in vacancy rates and increasing pressure on rental rates, particularly in prime central locations, according to Cushman & Wakefield's market summary for 2025. 

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Schibsted & Vend Polska stay in High5ive

schedule 09 February 2026
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IT provider Schibsted & Vend Polska has extended its lease for 2,500 sqm of office space at the High5ive complex in Kraków. Advisory support during the renegotiations was provided to the tenant by Walter Herz.

Residential

Poland Develia teams up with Mosaic to build student hall

schedule 09 February 2026
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Develia, under a joint venture agreement with Mosaic Poland Holding, will build a student residence with over 620 rooms, commercial premises, and supporting amenities.

Office & mixed-use development

Hungary GTC signs up UNIQA

schedule 09 February 2026
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GTC, a leading investor and manager of commercial real estate in Central and Eastern Europe, has leased more than 6,000 sqm of office space to insurance provider UNIQA. The company is to move into the Centerpoint 3 building in Budapest’s business district in Q4 2026.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Lease renewals now dominate

schedule 09 February 2026
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2025 was a year of recovery for the Polish warehouse market. Total gross leasing activity reached over 6.8 mln sqm, the second-highest ever figure only surpassed by the figures from 2021. JLL has released its 2025 data for the warehouse and logistics real estate sector in Poland.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Hines sells Wola Center

schedule 09 February 2026
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Hines has sold the Wola Center office complex in Warsaw to Czech-based Trigea Fund. The property was previously held by Hines European Value Fund 1.

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Investment & finance

CEE region Investment rebounds across CEE

schedule 06 February 2026
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Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) marked a decisive turning point in 2025, moving from hesitation to execution as investment volumes surged to EUR 11.6 bln across the region’s six core markets, a 31 pct year-on-year increase according to the latest insights from Colliers. The rebound was driven by disciplined underwriting, stabilising pricing and the return of liquidity — increasingly led by domestic and regional investors.

Retail & leisure

Poland Another store for dm

schedule 06 February 2026
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The dm drugstore chain has opened a new store in the Avenida Poznań shopping centre, on ul. Stanisława Matyi. This is the 75th dm location in Poland, the 12th in Wielkopolska, and the third in Poznań.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Kraków the most important regional office market

schedule 06 February 2026
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At the end of 2025, the stock of modern office space in Kraków came to 1.84 mln sqm, according to data from Savills.

Retail & leisure

Poland Lidl comes to Bohema

schedule 06 February 2026
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A Lidl Polska store has opened in the mixed-use AFI Home Metro Szwedzka complex in Warsaw's Praga-Północ district, developed by AFI Poland, next to the entrance to the metro.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland First building of CTPark Warsaw Janki ready

schedule 06 February 2026
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CTP has completed the first stage of the CTPark Warsaw Janki industrial and logistics park in Puchały, near Warsaw. The completed building offers over 9,100 sqm gla.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Supply gap dominates market

schedule 06 February 2026
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The year 2025 confirmed a strong recovery in the Warsaw office market, while new supply continued to decline. Axi Immo reports that a supply gap remains in the market, particularly in central Warsaw locations.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Nowa Szkoła expands in CELH

schedule 06 February 2026
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Nowa Szkoła has renegotiated its lease and expanded within the Central European Logistics Hub in Łódź. The total area occupied by the tenant in the AEW owned logistics park will total 12,500 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania Romania a maturing market

schedule 06 February 2026
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Demand for industrial and logistics space in Romania increased by 51 pct year-on-year in 2025, reaching 1.275 mln sqm. This was the second-highest ever figure for the market, according to data from Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.

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schedule 09 January 2026

Dance centre opens in Warsaw

The Dance and Performing Arts Pavilion has opened in Warsaw's Powiśle district.

schedule 30 December 2025

Public consultations held for Park Wilanów

The Nhood Services Poland team has completed another round of public consultations for its mixed-use Wilanów Park development. Residents voiced their opinions on the proposed uses, services, and surroundings of Wilanów Park.

schedule 17 December 2025

Need for clarity introducing reforms

Polish cities and investors are preparing for the biggest change in spatial planning in two decades. By mid-2026, all municipalities must adopt general plans, which will replace existing zoning studies and become the primary document defining the framework for building location.

schedule 12 December 2025

Competition to modernise former Soviet block announced

Warsaw has announced an architectural and urban planning competition for a development concept for 100 ul. Sobieskiego. The competition results will be announced in June 2026. 

schedule 04 June 2025

MoMA wins architectural grand prix

The 11th Architectural Awards of the Mayor of Warsaw [11. edycji Nagrody Architektonicznej Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy] were held on June 3rd, at Teatr Studio in the city’s Palace of Culture and Science, with EurobuildCEE being one of the media patrons of the event.

schedule 09 May 2024

Poznań with a green Aura

In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The façade of the building with its organic architecture will be covered with 140,000 plants.

schedule 21 September 2023

Dutch-Czech team wins Dejvice contest

Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects together with Czech architects OVA have won the competition to redesign a quarter of Vítězné náměstí (Victory Square) in Dejvice district (Prague 6).

schedule 20 September 2023

Alto launches Sky Park arch-comp

Alto Real Estate, the owner of the Sky Park complex in Bratislava, has launched an architectural competition for its further development on an adjacent plot.

schedule 12 September 2023

Okam unveils new Warsaw district design

Okam has presented a concept for the development of the former FSO plant site in Warsaw's Żerań. Created in cooperation with the city and the WXCA architectural studio, the masterplan envisages the creation of 12,000 flats as well as a new 10-ha park. 

schedule 04 July 2023

A centre with towers behind

Italian Studio Fuksas has won an international competition to design a trade fair and exhibition centre to be built in Tirana. The planned development is to be built on a 10,000-square-metre site on New Boulevard, in the centre of the city.

schedule 10 February 2023

Love me tender

The City of Helsinki, Finland, has launched a tender competition to sell the Old Customs House in Katajanokka harbour area for redevelopment. The goal of the competition is to find a technically and economically feasible and architecturally outstanding solution for redeveloping the building.

schedule 07 December 2022

Penta holds competition for Dynamitka site

Penta Real Estate is holding an architectural competition for the development of a 4.5 ha brownfield site that formed part of the former Juraj Dimitrov chemical works (known locally as ‘DImitrovka’ or ‘Dynamitka’) in Bratislava.

schedule 17 November 2022

Foster+Partners wins Solidarity Airport design gig

London-based studio Foster+Partners in a consortium with Buro Happold has won the competition to design the Solidarity Airport near Grodzisk Mazowiecki.

schedule 06 October 2022

Modular R&D centre by Chybik+Kristof

A modular construction research centre has been completed for Koma Modular in Vizovice, in the Czech Republic’s eastern Zlín region. The design of the facility is the work of Prague-based architectural studio Chybik+Kristof.

schedule 30 August 2022

Architectural contest launched for Victory Square

An international architectural and urban planning competition has been launched for the development of the ‘4th quadrant’ of Vítězné náměstí (Victory Square) in Prague’s Dejvice district.

schedule 19 August 2022

Penta launches ‘Southbank Bratislava’ architectural competition

Penta Investment has launched an architectural and urban design competition for a site along the southern bank of the Danube River in Bratislava.

schedule 05 April 2022

Iulius and Atterbury to transform Cluj district

The Iulius group and Netherlands-based Atterbury Europe are to invest EUR 0.5 bln in a large-scale, mixed-use urban redevelopment project on the 14 ha site of the Carbochim abrasive products plant on the banks of the Someșul Mic river in Cluj-Napoca.

schedule 17 February 2022

Tallest Czech tower design unveiled

The Chybik + Kristof architectural studio has revealed its designs for Ostrava Tower in Ostrava city centre, which will be the tallest building in the Czech Republic.

schedule 18 January 2022

Globalworth extends student competition

Globalworth Foundation and the Igloo – Habitat and Architecture Association have extended the deadline extension for the ‘2031 NOW_our cities in 10 years’ student competition to February 1st 2022.

schedule 18 January 2022

Penta to work with PSN on Transgas replacement

Penta Real Estate is to work together with developer PSN on the project that is to replace the former Transgas building in Prague’s Vinohrady district.

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