Architecture and urban planning

POLAND WXCA has won the architectural competition to design an office building that will be developed in the Port Popowice complex in Wrocław that is to be developed by Vantage Development.

Chapman Taylor designs media centre

16 August 2019

RUSSIA Chapman Taylor has produced two concept designs for a state-of-the-art media centre in St Petersburg.

Buildings planned for Warsaw University

13 August 2019

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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

08 August 2019

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

WXCA to design Wielkopolska Uprising Museum

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.

Central Station enters monumental era

06 August 2019

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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.

Polish finalists at World Architecture Festival

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.

Design for EC building chosen

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.

Abrahama street for everyone

04 July 2019

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

27 May 2019

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.

Polonia stadium design chosen

22 May 2019

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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.

Design chosen for Poznań theatre

15 May 2019

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

Metro connector for Warsaw tower

13 May 2019

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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.

Nordic estate for Bemowo

09 May 2019

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

Design chosen for Stocznia Cesarska

29 April 2019

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

Upwards in Spanish style

23 April 2019

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

A towering view of Warsaw

18 April 2019

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.

Race to design racecourse site

17 April 2019

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.

Steel sculpture blown up

12 April 2019

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.