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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A reading room with a landscape above it
The University of Warsaw Library offers two connected ways to spend time: among books and among plants. Its garden opened in 2002, adding a public…
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What does a building for listening look like?
Glass walls and a perforated canopy give Budapest’s House of Music Hungary a strong visual presence in Városliget. Inside, exhibitions, performance and music education occupy…
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Central Europe’s most persuasive new buildings already existed
Across current architecture awards and public debates, adaptive reuse is moving from specialist practice to a defining regional question. In cities layered with industrial sites,…