FAAB proposes "smog-eating" music school for Kraków
Polish studio FAAB has developed a concept for a music school in Kraków featuring angular volumes covered with a mossy roof designed to absorb large amounts of airborne pollutants. More
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Construction begins on Poland's tallest tower by Foster + Partners
Work has started on a 310-metre-high Warsaw skyscraper by Foster + Partners, expected to become the tallest building in Poland. More
Dezeen's latest Pinterest board features houses and apartments in Poland
Two pared-back Polish interiors were popular on Dezeen this week, so we've created a Pinterest board dedicated to Poland's best residential projects – from a micro flat measuring just 13 square metres to a suite of holiday apartments inside a 19th century brewery. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
Projekt Praga transforms historic brewery in Poland into minimal apartments
Warsaw studio Projekt Praga has created a suite of pared-back and plant-filled holiday apartments inside a 19th century brewery in southeast Poland. More
Studio Mills converts Kraków monastery flat into light-filled family home
London office Studio Mills has transformed an apartment at an old Kraków monastery into a light-filled family residence. More
MFRMGR creates semi-transparent cubicles for sound production office in Warsaw
Warsaw studio MFRMGR has renovated the offices of Polish sound production company Ztudio, using wooden frames and polycarbonate sheets to create semi-transparent workspaces (+ slideshow). More
Green cross divides workspace from waiting room in denture clinic by Adam Wiercinski
A green cross emblazoned across the centre of this denture repair centre by Polish architect Adam Wiercinski marks a window where customers can collect or drop off their teeth (+ slideshow). More
Polish Pavilion curators campaign for better working conditions on building sites
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: unsettling scenes of building sites are screened amidst a full-scale scaffolding structure inside Poland's Biennale pavilion, which focuses on the plight of the construction worker (+ slideshow). More
Nizio Design commemorates the Holocaust with angular weathering-steel museum
This wedge-shaped, pre-rusted steel museum by Nizio Design is dedicated to the role that Polish citizens played in protecting the lives of Jews during the second world war (+ slideshow). More
Thisispaper Studio creates minimal interior for first standalone design store
Design office Thisispaper Studio used clean white surfaces and simple birch plywood furniture to transform a Soviet-era dental clinic in Warsaw into a space for its first shop (+ slideshow). More
Mariusz Wrzeszcz completes house in Poland with cedar walls inside and out
Architects office Mariusz Wrzeszcz has completed a single-storey house in Poland featuring cedar-clad walls, and a glazed living room that opens out to a spacious terrace (+ slideshow). More
Warsaw art studio features meditation space inside "deformed golden object"
A faceted golden nodule protrudes from one side of this art studio in Warsaw, providing a secluded meditation space for Polish sculptor Pawel Althamer (+ slideshow). More
Kraków Oxygen Home designed to offer sanctuary for lung cancer sufferers
A pair of Iranian architects have won a competition to design a support centre for lung cancer sufferers in the Polish city of Kraków, where air pollution is at dangerously high levels. More
Fernando Menis combines crushed brickwork and concrete for cavernous concert hall in Poland
Tenerife architect Fernando Menis claims to have developed a new construction technique, demonstrated by this concert hall in Poland featuring faceted surfaces of crushed brick and concrete (+ slideshow). More
Flanagan Lawrence to update Polish summer theatre with new inflatable roof
London studio Flanagan Lawrence has won a competition to refurbish an outdoor theatre in Szczecin, Poland, with plans to add an arched roof made from inflatable panels (+ slideshow). More
Polish film festival identity references Le Corbusier's Modulor Man
Polish design studio UVMW has created a visual identity for Warsaw's Beton Film Festival based on Le Corbusier's Modulor system of proportions. More
Second world war memorial mausoleum nears completion at Polish massacre site
Polish architect and sculptor Mirosław Nizio has unveiled the first photographs of a mausoleum he is building to commemorate the victims of Polish village massacres during the second world war (+ slideshow). More
Mamastudio transforms historic Warsaw apartments into Autor Rooms boutique hotel
Warsaw firm Mamastudio has launched its own hotel, turning a series of residential spaces into guest rooms that showcase furniture and artwork by Polish designers (+ slideshow). More
Szymon Hanczar crams his entire city home into 13 square metres
Polish designer Szymon Hanczar's micro apartment in Wroclaw contains a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom all within the confines of just 13 square metres (+ slideshow). More
Expanding micro homes could move around on a network of railway tracks
Polish architecture students Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota have unveiled a concept for a community of mobile micro homes that move around an old shipyard on railway tracks. More