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Transforming Quadrant House: Rotating Terrace Follows the Sun

More than anything, the owners of a new transforming house in Poland wanted constant, direct access to sunlight. They commissioned the local firm KWK Promes to realize their unusual vision, and ...

Neglected Riverside Steps Revived with Form-Fitting Sunbed Seats

Designed to help citizens of Wroclaw, Poland, reclaim neglected parts of their city this site-specific "microinstallation" provides comfortable urban furniture for an otherwise hard-to-occupy ...

Multimodal Micro-Homes: Tiny Dwellings Travel by Truck & Rail

Designed around an aging shipyard and its crosscrossing maze of leftover railroad tracks, these series of expandable little dwellings can be rearranged or even moved entirely on demand. Each unit ...

Towers Transformed: Massive Geometric Mural Collaboration

Five distinct styles come together in a duo of massive geometric murals with 'Recycles,' a collaboration created for the street art curation project Urban Forms. Artists Tone, Proembrion, Sepe, ...

Guerrilla Lace: Prettied-Up Urban Surfaces in Poland

Urban sidewalks, sewer grates and dingy underpasses aren't exactly the most likely places to find beautiful large-scale ornamental lace, but for artist NeSpoon Polska, that's exactly where it ...

Reconstructed Destruction: Flyover of Bombed WWII Warsaw

It took 1 year, over 1000 photographs and extensive archival research to construct The City of Ruins, a digital stereoscopic reconstruction of Warsaw, Poland in its most devastated state. With ...

4-Foot-Wide Home in Poland is Now Thinnest in the World

Nestled in the interstitial space between two existing structures and raised up one story from the street sits an improbable structure, proposed then built as an artist-in-residence live/work ...

Bunkers Ours: The Safe House is an Open & Shut Case

If maximum security is your aim but prison life just doesn't cut it, you might want to consider the Safe House. Designed by KWK Promes Architects and located just outside Warsaw, Poland, this ...

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