CINiBA shortlisted by Mies van der Rohe Award 2013

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CINiBA selected under 34 works shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2013. The winners were chosen from 335 submitted works in 37 European countries. The other shortlisted project from Poland is Integrated train and tram stop Wroclaw by MACKOW PRACOWNIA PROJEKTOWA. Works nominated for the Prize are put forward by independent experts from all over Europe, as well as by the member associations of the Architects’ Council of Europe, national architects’ associations, and the Advisory Committee for the Prize. More information at: miesarch.com. 

“Architektura-Murator” 2/2013

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The latest issue of Architektura-Murator summarizes the Life in Architecture Award. Contained within are the nominees and winners of each category as well as pictures from the award ceremony. Additionally CINiBA was presented in Augmented Reality and Piotr Smierzewski contributed to the monthly “Reading Room” column.  Continue reading →

CINiBA awarded Grand Prix of the “Life in Architecture” Award.

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Out of 1,064 entries CINiBA was deemed the best building built in Poland between 2000-2012 in the 7th edition of the “Life in Architecture” Award organized by leading Polish architectural magazine “Architektura Murator”. The library also won in the public building category. This year the award was given for the first time by president Bronislaw Komorowski. (fot. Agencja Luxmedia)

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CINiBA in “Architektura” 10/2012

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The October issue of Architektura-Murator features a 20 page article about the newly completed Academic Library that serves the Silesian University and the University of Economics in Katowice. Critical essays about the project provided by Ryszard Nakonieczny and Krzysztof Mycielski. Photography by Jakub Certowicz. Continue reading →

HS99 interview in “Polityka”

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 “To us, in addition to rationalism, architecture is first and foremost abstraction.” - D. Herman“.  I’m glad that we did not succumb to the temptation of doing something trendy. Thanks to this, our building hasn’t dated in the 10 years since its design, nor do I hope it will soon.” - P. Śmierzewski. Interview by Piotr Sarzynski about HS99′s pursuit of rational timelessness and the resistence to short-lived architectural trends.

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“Polityka” Award laureate CINiBA profiled

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“(CINiBA) charms through its discreet insertion into Silesia’s tradition of industrial architecture, as well as into its immediate neighbourhood, for which it stands to become a catalyst for development.” P. Sarzyński. “The true art of architecture lies in creating an original design with merely a few gestures.” R. Konieczny. Article by Piotr Sarzynski.

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HS99 in “Prestiz”

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“Koszalin is suffering from a coronary disease, because all of its side streets are plugged. Blood is pumped through only two arteries into the city center.” - W. Subalski. HS99 discuss their efforts to reinvigorate Koszalin’s city center with Kuba Grabski from “Prestiz.”

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EUROPE 40 under 40 for Wojciech Subalski

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2010 Award EUROPE 40 UNDER 40. Wojciech Subalski (hs99) in the selection of this year’s most promising and emerging European design talent for 2010 – The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

H8 in PHAIDON Atlas of Architecture

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H8 – a house near Warsaw by hs99 has been published in the latest edition of the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Other polish offices presented in the publication are; KWK Promes, JEMS Architekci, Atelier Loegler, DDJM Biuro Architektoniczne, Medusa group, nsMoonStudio.

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture presents, in one volume, more than 1000 of the most outstanding works of architecture built since 2000 from all over the world.

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