Architecture and urban planning

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.

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

WXCA wins Gdynia theatre design

02 April 2019

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.

Planet Lem comes into view

20 March 2019

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.

Trzop designs for Smyk

08 March 2019

POLAND Children’s store chain Smyk has completed the fit out of its 6,000 sqm office in the D48 building in Warsaw’s Służewiec district. The interior design is by Trzop Architekci.

Projekt Praga for Służewiec

20 February 2019

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Projekt Praga has won the architectural competition for the design of a new student house at the University of Warsaw.

Golub GetHouse presents Liberty Tower

12 February 2019

POLAND Liberty Tower, which is to be built at the corner of ul. Żelazna and ul. Grzybowska in Warsaw, will be a 41-storey residential block with a height of 140m and a cascading roof. The building, which is designed by US-based architectural studio Arquitectonica with Epstein acting as the local architectural partner, is also to house a hotel. Work is scheduled to start in Q2 2020.

Towering prospects for pl. Zawiszy

08 February 2019

POLAND A concept has been published for the transformation of the area around pl. Zawiszy in Warsaw.

Libeskind designs for Łódź

04 February 2019

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND The city of Łódź has set up the InLodz21 cultural institution which is to develop the Special Retail Zone (Specjalna Strefa Detalu) project.

From Slag to Silo

04 February 2019

POLAND Kraków resigistered company Slag Recycling has started the design work on the almost 20 ha site of a former cement plant in Jaworzno-Szczakowa, 25 km east of Katowice.

A place to perform in Bielsko-Biała

31 January 2019

Opr./edited by TSG

POLAND Cavatina & Partners has designed an office building and a concert hall on ul. Dworkowa in the centre of Bielsko-Biała.

Hotel and offices at the mill

29 January 2019

POLAND Warsaw-based company Starhedge has set up special-purpose vehicle Fabryka Ossera to develop a hotel project in the former Osser factory in Łódź.

Architecture exploring its feminine side

25 January 2019

ESTONIA The ‘A room of one’s own: Feminist questions about architecture’ exhibition at the Museum of Estonian Architecture in Tallinn is to open on January 26th.

Silesian Uni faculty up for Mies Award

22 January 2019

POLAND The new radio and television faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice has been added to the short-list of buildings nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 for architecture – the only Polish project to reach this stage.

Five-star design in Pasym

17 January 2019

POLAND MJZ (formerly KAMJZ) has designed a hotel and leisure complex with a conference centre and a marina to be built in Pasym in the Masurian lake district by Verdancy.

Poznań to build Uprising museum

04 January 2019

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND The city of Poznań has announced an architectural competition to find a concept for the Museum of the 1918-1919 Wielkopolska Uprising, which is also to include the design of a park.

Two studios under consideration for theatre redesign

27 December 2018

Opr./edited by TSG

POLAND The WXCA and LWS Architekci have been shortlisted in the competition to find a design concept for the extension of the Witold Gombrowicz Theatre in Gdynia.

LWS now does nurseries

24 December 2018

POLAND LWS Architekci studio has won the competition to design a nursery school at the junction of ul. Stolarska and ul. Szwedzka in Warsaw's Praga-Północ district.

Is it a square – or is it a palimpsest?

14 December 2018

POLAND The architectural competition for the concept for pl. Centralny square (part of pl. Defilad) in Warsaw has been won by A-A Collective.

Polish-Italian job for Kraków concert hall

05 December 2018

POLAND The design has been approved for the Centrum Muzyki concert hall complex in Kraków. The jury, chaired by Ewa Kuryłowicz, chose the proposal prepared by a Polish-Italian team comprising SBS Engineering Group of Krakow and 3TI Progetti Italia – Ingegneria Integrata of Rome, whose entry beat off rival bids from around the world.

Competition for new Polonia stadium

04 December 2018