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Architecture

New guide raises the roof on Łódź’s long forgotten, but beautiful, Art Nouveau architecture

The guide will showcase photos of the top 50 Art Nouveau sites in Łódz. Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP

Often thought of nothing more than a post-industrial city Łódź, in fact, boasts an abundance of Art Nouveau.

Kraków students build first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland

Students from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (southern Poland) have constructed the first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland. The footbridge is 3.35 m long and is able to support weights of up to 200 kg, the university announced.

Snapper wows judges with his stunning pics in finals of prestigious global photography awards

Białystok-born snapper Paweł Paniczko beat off competition from a record number of entries to make it through to the finals of the 2018 Architectural Photography Awards. He told TFN it was “a real distinction” to be shortlisted.

Our house, in the middle of… somewhere. Architects design ‘hidden’ house

Warsaw architects have designed a house that will be submerged into its grassy environment. With a planned meadow roof and sloping ramps that give access in and out of the camouflaged home, the house sports a sleek spy vibe.

Gdańsk unveils model of pre-war Great Synagogue

Erected in a neo-Renaissance style in 1885-1887, the Jewish prayer house was one of the city’s most imposing landmarks with a tower soaring 54 metres (177 feet) into the sky.

Dilapidated old factory transformed into stunning new school

Architects invited primary school pupils to send in sketches of what they wanted their school to look like and merged the ideas with their design to build a ‘dream’ school for kids.  

Getting plastered: Łodź tenement gets stunning makeover from fantasy inspired artist

High-tech techniques allow artist’s work to transform a crumbling piece of city landscape.

Facelift gives new lease of life to Warsaw’s post-war architecture

In the desolate post-war new order, modernism was supposed to create new narratives of hope: for some, this was eternal freedom, of a New York Art Deco grandeur; for others, a strident Bolshevik equality.

Polish students win architectural competition in Valencia

Students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology (PŚ) in Gliwice, southern Poland, took first and second place in the international architectural competition #ValenciaCall for the design of social housing in Valencia.

Daniel Libeskind wins award for Złota 44 tower, thanks to Warsaw Uprising vets

World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, who designed the Złota 44 residential tower in the heart of the Polish capital, has won the Warsaw City Prize.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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