EcoLogicStudio uses algae to purify air inside enclosed playground for children
EcoLogicStudio has designed AirBubble, a children's play pavilion that uses algae in solar-powered bioreactors to remove carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air. More
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Fakro Light Tunnels illuminate Kielce's renovated bus station
Dezeen promotion: window manufacturer Fakro's light tunnels have been used to revitalise the Kielce Bus Station in Poland. More
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Studio Paradowski nods to Kraków's mid-century architecture in revamped Puro hotel
The glamour of Kraków's interwar cafes and the clean functionalism of its mid-century modern cinemas informed Paradowski Studio's renovation of the Puro Hotel. More
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Narchitektura creates memorial park on site of Oświęcim's Great Synagogue
Landscape architecture studio Narchitektura has used 40 grey sandstone slabs to create a memorial park on the site of a former synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish city where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located. More
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Artist Alicja Biała decorates MVRDV project in Wrocław with floor-to-ceiling murals
Polish visual artist Alicja Biała has painted a set of colourful large-scale murals inside the Concordia Design building in Wrocław, Poland, as part of its renovation and extension by architecture firm MVRDV. More
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Agnieszka Owsiany Studio creates tranquil apartment in Poznań for couple working in medicine
The high-pressure medical jobs of the couple living in this Poznań apartment led Agnieszka Owsiany Studio to apply a calming mix of wood and pale marble throughout the interiors. More
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K916 and K907 are a pair of pared-back holiday apartments in Warsaw
Boxy timber volumes tuck away the beds and bathrooms of these minimal holiday apartments designed by Thisispaper Studio, which lie at the heart of the Polish capital. More
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Architecture Club builds cast-concrete studio for sculptor Monika Sosnowska
Architecture Club has completed a sculpture studio for Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, featuring board-marked concrete walls and huge windows. More
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Mateusz Baumiller converts warehouse into homely offices for Clay.Warsaw
Polish architect Mateusz Baumiller has merged deep-pink walls, velvet furnishings and wooden fixtures to soften the industrial shell of this creative office in Warsaw. More
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Mountain house in Poland has glazed cut between gables
A glazed cut through a barn-style gabled house set into a hill in rural Poland by Kropka Studio has views of its mountain surroundings. More
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Nadzieja restaurant in Poznań features understated Bauhaus-style interiors
Agnieszka Owsiany Studio worked to incorporate key motifs of Bauhaus design into this Israeli restaurant, which has opened in Poznań, Poland. More
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Moroccan carpets line walls of Warsaw's Aura cocktail bar
Heavy patterned carpets from Morocco and brass fixtures merge to form the rich interior of this cocktail bar in Warsaw, designed by architect Kacper Gronkiewicz. More
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"The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists"
As Poland goes to the polls on Sunday, the churches that were built in the 1970s and 1980s as a sanctuary against an oppressive state are now instruments in a political debate, writes Owen Hatherley. More
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Day-VII Architecture highlights the variety of Polish communist-era churches
The 3,000 hugely varied churches built in Poland between 1945 and 1989 were often created as a rejection of communist authority. Kuba Snopek, co-author of Day-VII Architecture, picks five of the most intriguing. More
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Daniel Libeskind designs photo installation at Auschwitz
Daniel Libeskind has designed an outdoor installation called Through the Lens of Faith in Poland to showcase photographer Caryl Englander's portraits of Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors. More
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Climate-change data turned into colourful towering totems
Designer Alicja Biała and architect Iwo Borkowicz have aimed to capture the realities of climate change with these colourful Totemy towers that serve as multi-storey data visualisations. More
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Ten emerging Polish designers at this year's Łódź Design Festival
Last month's Łódź Design Festival showed the work of the most promising Polish design talents alongside thematic exhibitions and workshops. Here are ten up-and-coming designers and their projects. More
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BBGK explores potential of prefabrication with red concrete housing block in Poland
The Sprzeczna 4 apartment building in Warsaw, designed by local practice BBGK, is one of the first major prefabricated residential blocks built in Poland since the communist era. More
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Robert Konieczny folds white concrete road around house in Poland
A winding road of white concrete becomes an integral part of House on the Road by Robert Konieczny's studio KWK Promes, for a riverside plot in Poland. More
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Moving terrace follows the sun at Robert Konieczny's Quadrant House
This house in Poland by architect Robert Konieczny has a moving outdoor living space that pivots and docks with rooms on either side of the garden. More
