Architecture Snob magazine for the sixth time! The slogan of this issue of “Architecture Snob” is luxury. What is it today and does this word still mean luxury and expensive items? Considering the specific times we live in, partnership cooperation seems to me to be a luxury. Deadline Architects – heroes of one of…
La Grande Bellezza – Premiere of Architecture Snob #6 Photos: Vlad Baranov The pre-premiere celebration of the sixth issue of “Architecture Snob” magazine under the slogan “La Grande Bellezza” took place at Va Bene Cicchetti in Warsaw. Evening at This is a new and unique place on the culinary map of Warsaw. Va Bene…
The hardest kind of love Culture has always played a very important role in the process of our development. By touching on difficult social topics, examining human nature and asking unanswered questions, we force ourselves to make an intellectual effort, broaden our horizons and look for sensitivity and understanding in us. The tenth muse…
There Is Only One Europe. In Conversation with Alicja Knast Piotr Policht Photo: Zuzana Bonisch I will not ask how you convinced the competition committee to recognize and accept your program, but I will ask about your motivations, since in Poland it is still rare for a public cultural institution to be managed…
Ceramika Paradyż on Cersaie in Bologna presents innovative solutions. The unique stand designed by Maja Ganszyniec combines not only four product lines, but above all creates a space for dialogue between people and various concepts in architecture. In the Ceramika Paradyż zone, non-obvious brand collaborations are premiered, and the company’s experts and business partners have…
‘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…
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…