Fashion from the construction site Photo: Marek Chorzepa Mikołaj Sokołowski is a designer living in Paris who creates clothes in line with the ideas of sustainable development. He studied at the prestigious Studio Berçot, and gained experience at the Thierry Mugler fashion house and Balenciaga – during the time when Alexander Wang was there a…
‘What we do is incompatible with the essence of living processes, the functioning of the world in general. The relationships of countless organisms, the flows and dissipations of energy. The contemporary mainstream of construction is about the opposite: about separating oneself from the world with an increasingly thick layer of insulation’, says Maciej Miłobędzki from…
The Track to The Gallery Galeria Szara – a place far from modern sterile perfection, recently moved to Warsaw. Instead of the performative perfectionism, it focuses on a friendly atmosphere, networking people and loving care for the reception of art. We talk with Joanna Rzepka – gallery’s co-creator, artist and curator – about the…
In the latest Lena Lighting collection with the sonorous name of Messaggio, designed by Dorota Koziara, light has been given a new role. It has become an indicator of presence, mood and personality. The designer drew from the magic of light and colour combined together. Light is one of the most inspiring phenomena…
Education of architects It is a topic wide and adventures like a river or like a full-body collection of dichotomies and questions. Szymon Wojciechowski Firstly: individual ego versus teamwork. Someone said that if there are nine out of ten similar papers on the exam in a ‘normal’, meaning non-architectural university, then the other one is…
Simon Architecture Prize 2022 – winner of the #CollectivePlaces category Property: Kithara Music Public Kiosk Place: Mexico City Design: TO studio Photos: Jaime Navarro Kithara Music Public Kiosk is a music kiosk located on the outskirts of Mexico City in an area in Iztapalapa that is called Yuguelito. There are high rates of violence, poor…
Simon Architecture Prize 2022 – winner of the #PersonalPlaces category Property: Rambla Climate-House Place: Molina de Segura, Murcia Project: Andrés Jaque / Office For Political Innovation + Miguel Mesa Del Castillo Photos: José Hevia The Rambla Climate-House is a single-family house that functions as a climate device. It is part of independent civic initiatives…
The final ten Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize 2022 – were selected by the jury from 186 submitted projects from 34 countries. The competition is a prestigious acknowledgment for facilities that ensure comfortable living. Designers can receive an award in one of two categories: Collective Places and Personal Spaces. The Simon Architecture Prize…
Neuroscience in designing spaces that encourage creativity We spend about 80-90% of our lives inside buildings, and our brain and our biology are influenced by contact with architecture. Interest in understanding the impact of architecture on human well-being is growing. We observe the development of research, the creation of the first certificates in this…
2022 was a difficult year for many reasons. On the one hand, the proximity of war beyond our eastern border, on the other, raging inflation, on the third, the increasingly advanced specter of a climate catastrophe, and on the fourth, the ongoing pandemic, to which we have probably already gotten used. In such circumstances, I…