| SARP Honorary Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | A lifetime achievement in the art of architecture |
| Sponsored by | Association of Polish Architects |
| Country | Poland |
| First awarded | 1966 |
| Website | www |
The SARP Honorary Award (Polish: Honorowa Nagroda SARP) is one of the two most prominent and significant annual architectural prizes in Poland, and it's awarded by the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) in recognition of the outstanding lifetime achievements in the field of architecture. [1] [2] It has been acclaimed 'the most prestigious architecture award' by Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza [3] and by Art & business: gazeta aukcyjna. [4]
It was founded in 1966 and, since then, awarded to a number of Poland's best contemporary architects, amongst them: Marek Budzyński, Stanisł aw Niemczyk, Ryszard Jurkowski, Stefan Kuryłowicz and Maciej Miłobędzki. [5]
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Nike Literary Award is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literature. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October. It is open for nominees from all literary genres, including non-fiction essays and autobiographies. Each year, a nine-member jury selects the laureate in a three-stage process. Twenty official nominees are accepted in May, out of which seven finalists are declared in September. The final decision does not take place until the day of the award ceremony in October. The award consists of a statuette referring to the Greek goddess Nike, designed by the prominent Polish sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła, and a cash prize of currently PLN 100,000.
Jan Zachwatowicz was a Polish architect, architectural historian, and restorer.
Stefan Kuryłowicz was a Polish architect and professor who is widely credited with transforming the architecture and skyline of Warsaw, Poland, in the twenty years following the collapse of Communism in 1989. Media reports have called Kuryłowicz "one of the most influential Polish architects." He and the late architect Jacek Syropolski created the architecture company, Kurylowicz & Associates.
Piotr Antoni Wilczek is a Polish intellectual historian, a specialist in comparative literature and a literary translator, who served as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States (2016–2021) and the United Kingdom.
Tomasz Urbanowicz is an architect and a designer of architectural glass art.
The International Biennale of Architecture in Kraków is a regular architectural event organised in Kraków since 1985. Each edition consists of architectural competitions and a range of accompanying events like exhibitions, presentations and lectures. Over time it has shifted from being a biennial to being held in irregular years
The Polish Sejm crisis, 16 December 2016—12 January 2017, was a period of political stalemate in Poland's national legislature, resulting from an attempt to limit freedom of the press at the Sejm buildings in Warsaw, Poland. The attempt to restrict press access to Sejm members and deliberations led to protests by opposition-party Sejm members, and by citizens of Poland's major cities, including Warsaw.
Alina Scholtz was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces. Some of her most noted works include the grounds of a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw for which she won a Silver Medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, the memorial cemetery to the victims of the Palmiry massacre, and landscaping projects along the East-West traffic route of Warsaw. In addition to her design work, she served as one of the founding members of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.
Włodzimierz Mucha was a Polish architect, designer and partner at Bulanda & Mucha Architects. Co-winner of SARP Honorary Award in 2015.
Halina Skibniewska was a Polish architect, lecturer on Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, and served in the Polish sejm from 1965 to 1985. During her career, she was the first woman to serve as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, a post which she held from 1971 to 1985, the first architect to design independent housing for disabled persons, and designed some of the most sought-after housing developments of her day.
The SARP Award of the Year is a Polish architecture prize established in 1983. It is awarded by the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) to the designers of the most significant contemporary buildings, and it's carried out under the honourable patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The Association of Polish Architects is a Polish professional architecture organisation. Since 1948 it has been a member of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). It also acts as a publishing institution of architectural journals, books and magazines. Since 1995, it has held status of a copyright collective.
PSS Społem is a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores founded in 1868.
JEMS Architekci – is a Polish studio for architecture with headquarters in Warsaw.
Maciej Miłobędzki – is a Polish architect and partner with JEMS Architects, Warsaw.
Ryszard Piotr Jurkowski is a Polish architect and urban planner noted for his contemporary and embracing minimalism design of residential, commercial, educational, industrial and civic buildings, and for his fight against the monotonous and dreary architecture of the communist era. He is one of Poland’s most prolific architects.
Makabi Warszawa, in English Makabi Warsaw, founded in 1915 in Warsaw, Poland was a Polish sports club founded by the Jewish Gymnastic and Sports Association "Maccabi" in Warsaw. It was the largest multi-section Jewish sports club in the Second Polish Republic.
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was a Polish architect active between 1954 and 1993. She is known for designing housing and schools, and for her contributions to the post-WWII reconstruction of Wrocław.
Konrad Ksawery Swinarski – Polish theatrical, television, film and opera director and stage designer.
Skyliner, sometimes also referred to as Skyliner I, is a skyscraper in the city of Warsaw, Poland. It is located at the 67 Prosta Street, near the Ignacego Daszyńskiego Roundabout, in the district of Wola, within the neighbourhood of Czyste. It was opened in 2021. It is ment to be joined with Skyliner II, which is currently under construction, forming a complex of twin buildings.