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…
The pre-premiere celebration of the fourth issue of the “Architecture Snob” quarterly took place on December 20 in the HOP office building in Warsaw. In the 1990s, the building was considered one of the most modern facilities of this type in the capital. Years later, it underwent a thorough renovation. The effect is surprising and…
Warsaw Winter Art Fair is a new event on the gallery map of Warsaw. The first edition of the winter fair, which will take place on the weekend of December 17-18, is an opportunity for the audience to encounter the proposals of leading contemporary art galleries on a completely different ground than usual. The…
The fourth issue of the architectural magazine “Architecture Snob” has its premiere just before Christmas, on December 23, in the nationwide distribution of Empik stores. The motto of the latest publication is education – the editors look at the topic from different angles, and the people invited to the interviews point out the role of…
Archicolages: an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ewa P. Porębska’s work in architectural media. Ewa P. Porębska, since 1994, editor-in-chief of the Architektura-murator, the leading Polish architectural monthly magazine. Photo: Bartek Barczyk 1982 is martial law in Poland,…
Rooms for Art. A conversation with Thomas Phifer. Photo: Jason Schmidt Anna Diduch: To me speaking about the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is quite personal because the story behind the museum, its building and its collection is in the same time frame of my evolution as a historian of art and…
Mark your calendars! The first Polish edition of ARCHITECT@WORK will take place on November 15 and 16, 2022 at Expo XXI Warsaw. In a conversation with Hannelore Caenepeel, the ARCHITECT@WORK manager, we are asking what the visitors should expect from this international event for specialists in the architecture and design industry. Marcin Szczelina: There…
The financial calculator shows what would be more advantageous: to demolish something or to build a new facility. But if investors were forced to carry out a carbon footprint analysis, perhaps we would not witness the devastation of the functions of the existing buildings. These are the challenges for the young architects who are just…