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Chopin in the freezer

schedule 12 April 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Ghelamco has obtained a permit for the construction of the 160m Chopin Tower building, neighbouring the developer’s Warsaw Spire building, but it is not planning to launch the project for the moment.

Architecture and urban planning

Competition for Fabryka Wody design

schedule 04 April 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND An international competition for the architectural concept of the Fabryka Wody facility in Szczecin is to be launched in April or May this year.

Architecture and urban planning

Zaha Hadid dies at 65

schedule 31 March 2016
Agata Kłapeć

WORLD British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has passed away after a heart attack in Miami.

Architecture and urban planning

Ghelamco unveils plans for new Warsaw tower

schedule 18 March 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Belgian developer Ghelamco aims to erect a new skyscraper on the plot taken by the Jewish Theater (Teatr Żydowski) building in Warsaw. The company already bought the land plot and obtained demolition permit for the property.

Architecture and urban planning

Gdynia Maritime University campus competition decided

schedule 15 March 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND The 22 Architekci architectural studio has won the competition for the functional and spatial concept of the campus of Gdynia Maritime Academy.

Architecture and urban planning

Footbridge with cafés across the Vistula

schedule 15 March 2016
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Warsaw city council is planning to build a bridge across the Vistula river for pedestrians and cyclists in a PLN 30 mln project over the next few years. It will connect the Powiśle and Praga districts between ul. Karowa and ul. Okrzei.

Architecture and urban planning

Dutch conquer swimming pool market

schedule 01 March 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

LITHUANIA Dutch architects Slangen+Koenis Architecten together with Lithuanian architectual studio Clouds Architektai have designed a swimming stadium in Klaipėda.

Architecture and urban planning

Św. Barbary tenement to be restored to former glory

schedule 01 March 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Warsaw Attics is to renovate a tenement building purchased from the Polish Post [Poczta Polska] in Warsaw city centre and restore it to its pre-war appearance.

Architecture and urban planning

Danish studio triumphs in Tallinn

schedule 25 February 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

ESTONIA The Enhanced Urban Movement architectural project by Clement Lobbens and Frederique Barchelard from Denmark has won Tallinn Architecture Biennale’s vision competition “Epicentre of Tallinn”.

Architecture and urban planning

Treimorfa – new vision, new plan

schedule 22 February 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND GD&K Group has revealed new visualisations of the Kraków project it is jointly developing with Verity Development.

Architecture and urban planning

Contract signed for Museum of Polish History

schedule 18 February 2016
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND The contract to design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw has been signed.

Architecture and urban planning

Spaniards and Vistula artefacts to transform Powiśle?

schedule 17 February 2016
Agata Kłapeć

POLAND The design by three young Spanish architects has won the competition for the development of Skwer kpt. Stanisława Skibniewskiego ‘Cupryny’ in Warsaw’s Powiśle district.

Architecture and urban planning

Contract signed for Museum of Polish History

schedule 17 February 2016
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND The contract to design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw was signed last Friday.

Architecture and urban planning

New face for Baltic resort

schedule 12 February 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

LITHUANIA A technical and architectural plan has been drawn up to improve the centre of Nida, one of the districts of Neringa on the Curonian Spit, involving the creation of a central square for the town.

Architecture and urban planning

European Geological Education Centre among the best in the world

schedule 12 February 2016

WORLD The European Geological Education Centre, designed by the WXCA architectural studio, has been chosen as the best public utility facility in the world at the International Property Awards. However, it lost out to the Qatar Rail underground project in Doha in the global classification of the competition.

Architecture and urban planning

Glass tunnel over a lake

schedule 03 February 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND The visualisation of a glass tunnel connecting the two buildings of the five-star Hotel Mikołajki has been published.

Architecture and urban planning

London studio chosen for Szczecin Summer Theatre design

schedule 02 February 2016
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND The Flanagan Lawrence studio has won the design competition for the modernisation of the Summer Theatre [Teatr Letni] in Szczecin's Park Kasprowicza.

Architecture and urban planning

Zodiak predicted in two years

schedule 27 January 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND The Zodiak building in Warsaw, where the city's Economic Information Centre is to be located, is to be completed in 2018.

Architecture and urban planning

Zodiak to start in 2016

schedule 15 January 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Pawilon Architektury Zodiak in Warsaw has obtained a building permit, the Warsaw office of the Polish Union of Architects (SARP) has informed.

Architecture and urban planning

Architectural competition for railway museum

schedule 14 January 2016
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND The Polish State Railways (PKP) and the Warsaw branch of the Polish Union of Architects (OW SARP) has announced a competition for an architectural and urban planning concept of the planned Stacja Muzeum project in Warsaw’s Szczęśliwice area.

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