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Kraków

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about kraków

Project • By Eklekt AtelierParks/Gardens

The Park

The Park The project redefines the role of contemporary public space by creating a new destination that combines landscape, water, sport, and collective experience within a single, coherent environment. Located in the southern part of Kraków, the proposal transforms a fragmented and underutilized area into a large-scale district sports and recreation center with a strong public character and regional reach. Rather than designing a traditional park or a standalone sports complex, the project establishes a layered spatial system that integrates everyday use with event-driven intensity. Eklekt Atelier Water forms the central element of the composition. Outdoor swimming pools, a large retention pond with an island, and the potentia... More

Project • By Eklekt AtelierApartments

Velvet Concrete

Velvet Concrete is a residential interior located in Zabłocie — a post-industrial district of Kraków undergoing rapid transformation. The project reinterprets this industrial heritage through material logic and spatial clarity, rather than through obvious aesthetic references. ANNA GRUSZKOWSKA ANNA GRUSZKOWSKA ANNA GRUSZKOWSKA The design is based on a continuous spatial flow, where boundaries between zones are defined only by transparent architectural elements: full-height glass partitions, mirrored arcs and subtle shifts in textures. This strategy preserves openness and allows natural and artificial light to act as shaping devices — modelling depth, direction and hierarchy. Materiality provides the main... More

Project • By WIZJA architectural officeShopping Centres

Serenada Shopping Centre

Usually, shopping galleries are large structures, in the majority of cases located in urban and central urban areas. These are typically introvertive concepts, where shops are located along interior promenades. Such functional solutions cause the massive facades of these structures to be “dead” in general, they do not provide a field for interacting with the public space, which is so important for the human dimension of the urban space.The design of the SERENADA gallery, which is located in the area of Olsza, at Dobrego Pasterza Street, is an attempt to surmount the statically neutral façade by employing means of artistic expression stemming from contextual cultural and meaning-related grounds in relation to the structure’s own name.There a... More

Project • By Piotr Krajewski - Architectural PhotographyOffices

Comarch SSE6

SSE6 is a building owned by Comarch, a Polish multinational software house and systems integrator based in Kraków. It is located in the Cracow-Czyżyny Special Economic Zone. The building has a typical office structure with a modern Data Centre. Moreover, there is a technological laboratory with a production hall in which, it is possible to develop and prototype a new products and produce of low-serial modules and electronic devices based on modern technologies. The investment started in 2013 and finished in June 2016. It has delivered about 11700 sq. m of office space. The administrative part is located on three floors around the staircase corpus in the central place. The office part, in turn, was designed as a two-level solid floating i... More