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Robert Konieczny
Profile
An architect, graduate of Architecture at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. In 1996 he received the certificate of New Jersey Institute of Technology. A leader and a founder of KWK Promes architecture studio established in 1999.
In 2016 project - National Museum – Dialogue Centre Przełomy in Szczecin was found World Building of the Year 2016 in the international competition World Architecture Festival. Also, in 2016 the same project was announced to be The Best Public Space in Europe by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in the competition European Prize for Urban Public Space.
The latest award for architect is the title of the Best New Private House in worldwide competition Wallpaper Design Awards 2017 for the Konieczny's Ark. Konieczny was ten times nominee of the European Award of Mies van der Rohe Foundation. He is a holder of the award for the House of the Year 2006, winning with the Aatrial House as the best housing project in a competition organized by World Architecture News.
In 2007 the KWK Promes office was listed among 44 best young architects of the world published by 'Scalae'. The year 2008 brought him prize of The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum for Europe's Emerging Young Architects 'Europe 40 under 40'.