Lifestyle
Lifestyle stories from Central and Eastern Europe, exploring architecture, design, public space, fashion and the everyday places and ideas that shape how the region lives. Discover adaptive reuse, museums, libraries, cultural spaces and the relationship between design and everyday life.
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Budapest’s Wenckheim Palace is still a library after the photograph
Budapest’s Wenckheim Palace combines historic interiors with a working library. A closer look at the rooms reveals how reading gives the palace another life.
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Oradea’s Black Eagle Palace gives the street another interior
Oradea’s Black Eagle Palace joins historic architecture to a covered public passage, showing how an elaborate building can become part of daily movement.
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Iași’s Palace of Culture changes the meaning of an official building
Iași’s Palace of Culture opened in 1925 for administration and justice. Its later museum use reveals how a monumental building changes public purpose.
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Behind Riga’s Art Nouveau façade, the apartment tells another story
At Alberta iela 12, Riga’s Art Nouveau Museum turns attention from a photographed façade to the arrangement of a home—including the rooms that supported its…
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Twenty years on, Łódź’s Manufaktura still asks what a factory can become
Opened in 2006, Manufaktura brings shopping, leisure and culture into Łódź’s former textile complex. Its twentieth year is a moment to look at the uses…
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Villa Tugendhat’s open room depends on what holds it together
Twenty-five years after its UNESCO inscription, Brno’s Villa Tugendhat remains a useful place to examine modern living through the relationship between space, materials and the…
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Budapest’s Citadella shortlist raises a question of public use
The renewed Citadella has reached the World Architecture Festival shortlist. That recognition brings an everyday question into focus: how does a former fortress become a…
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Vienna Design Week gives an office building another kind of working day
At Hietzinger Kai 101, a former office building becomes a temporary setting for design. Vienna Design Week’s anniversary programme asks what happens when objects, workshops…
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Prague’s architecture festival looks beneath the familiar city
An old wastewater plant makes an unusually revealing stop in a festival about how we live. Prague’s Day of Architecture programme brings the hidden work…