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Buildings planned for Warsaw University

schedule 13 August 2019
Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND The Association of Polish Architects [SARP] has announced an architectural competition to find a design concept for teaching facilities for the University of Warsaw.

Competition for Białołęka park concept

schedule 08 August 2019
Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND An architectural competition has been launched for the redevelopment of the Park Botewa area of Warsaw's Białołęka district.

Architecture and urban planning

WXCA to design Wielkopolska Uprising Museum

schedule 07 August 2019
Agnieszka Zielińska

POLAND Warsaw studio WXCA has come first in the competition to design the concept of the new Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising, dedicated to the events surrounding the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918/19.

Architecture and urban planning

Central Station enters monumental era

schedule 06 August 2019
Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND Warszawa Centralna [Warsaw Central] station has been listed as a registered monument and thus is now covered by a protection order. The decision should preserve the structure of the modernist station and its spatial layout in its existing form.

Architecture and urban planning

Polish finalists at World Architecture Festival

schedule 24 July 2019

WORLD The World Architecture Festival (WAF), one of the most important architectural events globally, is to take place this year on December 4th–6th in Amsterdam – and this time a number of Polish projects have been shortlisted for awards.

Architecture and urban planning

Design for EC building chosen

schedule 16 July 2019
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

EUROPE The European Commission has launched a competition to find a design for its new headquarters at the Rue de la Loi in Brussels.

Architecture and urban planning

Abrahama street for everyone

schedule 04 July 2019
Eurobuild CEE

POLAND The first woonerf in Gdynia has been officially opened on ul. Abrahama. The project was initiated by residents themselves, and the execution of the project was possible due to the number of votes cast in the civil budget (almost 1,500).

How to reduce urban sprawl

schedule 27 May 2019
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Urban space in the twentieth century belonged to cars. In the 21st century it has been reclaimed by people – this is how current urban trends can be summarised. Inward development, the narrowing of streets to expand space for pedestrians, the building of a dense network of cycle lanes and strengthening the role of public transport are some of the measures taken in modern cities to improve the lives of residents, according to report by Colliers International.

Architecture and urban planning

Polonia stadium design chosen

schedule 22 May 2019
Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND JSK has won the concept design competition for a sports centre with a stadium at ul. Konwiktorska 6 in Warsaw for the Polonia Warszawa football club.

Architecture and urban planning

Design chosen for Poznań theatre

schedule 15 May 2019
Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Atelier Loegler Architects has won the competition to design the Musical Theatre in Poznań.

Architecture and urban planning

Metro connector for Warsaw tower

schedule 13 May 2019
Opr./edited by TSG

POLAND Warszawski Holding Nieruchomości ([part of the PHN group) is applying for a permit to connect its Warsaw skyscraper development with the adjacent metro station via a pedestrian subway.

Architecture and urban planning

Nordic estate for Bemowo

schedule 09 May 2019
Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Kuryłowicz & Associates studio has been chosen by Finnish developer Yit to design the Nordic Bemowo residential estate in Warsaw’s Bemowo district.

Architecture and urban planning

Design chosen for Stocznia Cesarska

schedule 29 April 2019
Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Stocznia Cesarska Development has adjudicated a competition to find a concept for a mobile container town to support the development of start-ups.

Architecture and urban planning

Upwards in Spanish style

schedule 23 April 2019
Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Karimpol has presented the plans for the entrance zone in the skyscraper Skyliner which is under construction at the Daszyńskiego roundabout.

Architecture and urban planning

A towering view of Warsaw

schedule 18 April 2019
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Workplace Solutions studio has designed a tower that is 26m in height with five viewing platforms to be built on the Cypel Czerniakowski headland on the river Vistula in Warsaw.

Architecture and urban planning

Race to design racecourse site

schedule 17 April 2019
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Acting on behalf of Totalizator Sportowy, Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has announced a competition for an architectural and urban concept for the development of a site that forms part of ​​the Służewiec Racecourse in Warsaw’s Ursynów district.

Architecture and urban planning

Steel sculpture blown up

schedule 12 April 2019
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Koniczyna is an ultralight sculpture made up of three steel arches designed by Zięta Zieta Prozessdesign and formed using the FiDU process of inflating metal plates.

Architecture and urban planning

Model district in Wola

schedule 08 April 2019
Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Warsaw city council has unveiled a scale model of Warszawska Dzielnica Społeczna [the Warsaw Social District], which is to be developed on the site of a former housing construction elements factory at the western end of ul. Górczewska in Wola district. A new model estate for more than 5,000 residents is planned – with apartments priced for every budget, different age and social groups, and with all services on site.

Architecture and urban planning

WXCA wins Gdynia theatre design

schedule 02 April 2019
Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND The WXCA architectural studio has won the competition to develop the concept for a major extension to the Witold Gombrowicz Theatre in Gdynia [Teatru Miejskiego im. Witolda Gombrowicza w Gdyni]. Construction work on the project is to start in 2021.

Architecture and urban planning

Planet Lem comes into view

schedule 20 March 2019
Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Jems Architekci has won the first prize in the architectural and urban competition for the design of the Planet Lem Centre for Literature and Language [Centrum Literatury i Języka “Planeta Lem”]. Kraków's flagship cultural project involves the refurbishment of a former salt storehouse in Zabłocie and should be completed by 2023.

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