This is the next edition of the whiteMAD poll for the most beautiful houses in Poland. However, the readers will decide which house will win. Below the list you will find a poll. Each person can cast two votes. The list includes modern houses with flat roofs, villas, semi-detached houses and metamorphoses of modest old cottages. Which house do you like best? You can vote until the end of January! Time to go!
The most beautiful houses from previous years can be found in the publications:
1. IS SURROUNDED BY NATURE. MODERN HOUSE IN THE BESKIDS
Project: RS Robert Skitek
Photos: Tomasz Zakrzewski
Location: Beskidy
The house in Beskidy is 241 square metres in size. The team of architects gave it a modern form and decorated it with a wooden façade that corresponds to the immediate surroundings.
The building was erected in the picturesque landscape of the Beskid Żywiecki in an area with a steep slope, surrounded by forest. The house was situated on the plot in its central point in such a way as to take advantage of its conditions and capture the best view of the mountain panorama. As a result, the rooms open up on two sides – either to the magnificent view of the mountains or to the green wall of the forest.
The characteristic body of the building consists of three segments of different heights. The mono-pitched roofs are staggered. This is a deliberate measure to divide the building functionally. At these ‘intersections’, narrow and long corridors have been created in the centre.
More photos can be found HERE.
2. THE FAÇADE IS DECORATED WITH BRICK. SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE NEAR WARSAW
Project: Exterio
Photography: Yassen Hristov
Location: Warsaw area
It looks like several solids joined together. This single-family house near Warsaw was designed by architects from the Exterio studio in cooperation with the Hola Design interior design studio. The house in Lesznowola was built on a green plot, surrounded by pine forests. Its attraction is its modern form and the unusual arrangement of bricks in the façade, which create an artistic pattern.
Its unusual form is reminiscent of levitating houses, hence the name of the building – Residence (of) levitating houses. When designing the house, the architects wanted to fit the original form into the forest surroundings while maintaining the intimate scale of the building. To achieve this effect, they proposed a form of building in which each of the occupants would have their own ‘house’. The result is a composition of rhythmically repeating volumes in the form of modern barns.
In the design concept, we proposed to create an architecture that would refer to the modernists’ slogan ‘form follows function’. The modern villa was intended to integrate a large family and, on the other hand, to meet the expectations of all householders who wish to have their own secluded enclave with a view of the forest,” says architect Marcin Klukowski of the Exterio studio.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
3. A HOUSE IN ŻOLIBORZ TURNED INTO A MODERNIST VILLA
Design: Paweł Lis Architekci
Photography: Tom Kurek
Location: Warsaw
It’s projects like this that impress us the most. Architect Paweł Lis has prepared a project for the redevelopment of a building. It is a semi-detached house in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw. Thanks to the work carried out, the grey and expressionless edifice has become a modernist gem, reminiscent of villas from the interwar period.
The house is located in the Officer’s Żoliborz district and was built before the Second World War. Fortunately, the semi-detached house survived the turmoil of war and today is a valuable example of old-world architecture. The house was built in the spirit of interwar Warsaw modernism. It was designed in a restrained manner, with two rows of rectangular windows on the front elevation and a light canopy over the entrance area supported by a lattice-like wall. The massing is varied by a side elevation with round windows and an open and corner loggia in the attic.
Looking at the house from the garden, one can notice a small but important element. It is the external interlocking staircase, so characteristic of modernist villas. Fortunately, the staircase was saved and today is once again fully functional and pleasing to the eye. The staircase has an original concrete railing resembling an unrolled ribbon.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
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4. ONE-STOREY HOUSE NEAR WARSAW. RESEMBLES A CALIFORNIAN VILLA FROM THE 1950S.
Design: MFRMGR Architects
Photography: ONI Studio
Location: Warsaw surroundings
The single-storey house is located in a quiet village near Warsaw. The beginning of work on the project involved getting to know the requirements of the future occupants of the house. The collected knowledge gave an impulse to design just such a house – spacious and bright inside, gently in the climate of a Californian villa from the 1950s. The maximum surface area was also determined, which could not exceed 190-200 m2.
At the start of the design work, the authors still had to prepare and tidy up the plot of land on which another building was to be demolished. The result of the work was a linear building spread over the plot, with an almost invisible concrete plinth detail. The entire building is illuminated by a strip of longitudinal windows high above the walls. Recesses appear in places, where entrances and passageways have been placed. Actually, the only windows through which one can look out are – a peephole window from the kitchen to view the driveway area, and a panoramic window from the living room with access to the garden. A row of these skylights seemingly cuts off a strip of the roof, which was designed according to the requirements of the local plan to be pitched, but was surrounded by a high attic. It created the impression of a flat roof levitating above the walls.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
5. HOUSE NEAR WARSAW AS IF FROM AN ENGLISH TOWN
Project: mamArchitekci
Photos: Vandersanden/bkreative.pro
Location: Warsaw area
Owners Kamila and Marcin brought their idea for a house from a trip to England. One of the main design objectives was to fulfil their dream of a building styled in the local fashion. According to arch. Renata Pieńkowska of mamArchitekci, admits that it was not an easy task, as they, like most architects, work with more contemporary styles on a daily basis. The English-style house near Warsaw was an additional challenge, as this type of building is not found in the native Polish landscape.
A large plot of land with a pine forest and a magnificent thuja in the villa part of Zalesie Górne turned out to be quite narrow in relation to the planned dimensions of the house. The architects therefore decided to enclose the main function in a compact block on the street side and expand it with a lower, single-storey part facing the depth of the plot. On the garden side, the size of the building was limited by the aforementioned specimen tuja, which the architects were keen to preserve. To prevent the large two-car garage from dominating the building, the entrance was designed in the side elevation. As a result, the representative front elevation of the building with its characteristic, decorative two-storey bay window of the entrance and lobby on the first floor is exposed from the street.
More photos of the house were published HERE.
6. A HOUSE IN THE FOREST NEAR WARSAW. THE BUILDING DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM NATURE
Project: Z3Z ARCHITEKCI
Photos: Z3Z ARCHITEKCI
Location: Warsaw surroundings
The landscape in which the new house of the Z3Z ARCHITEKCI studio was built is so strong and uncompromising that it dictated the architects’ next steps during the design process from the very beginning. This is because the brick building is situated on a plot of land in the middle of a dense pine forest. The austerity and consistency that the architects strived for can be seen in both the form of the designed building and its finishing materials. The house in the forest aspires to become one of its natural elements.
The house in the suburbs of Warsaw consists of two main blocks connected to each other by a connecting link with a communication zone and a garage. The day and night blocks are analogous. Both have the same width, roof pitch and finishing material. The difference is in the spatial arrangement and the window openings. The night block is based on a strong base in the form of a communication link and the economic zone. The entire composition is balanced and creates a clear, simple form. The ascetic character of the blocks was broken by the use of a protruding horizontal glazing over the kitchen cabinets.
More photos of the house were published HERE.
7. A VILLA WITH A PAVILION ON THE WATER. CREATED FOR ONE OF POLAND’S RICHEST
Design: JMW Architekci
Photos: Piotr Krajewski
Location: Poland
Lakefront Residence is a project developed by Krzysztof Jachowicz and Jakub Wisniewski of JMW Architekci studio and their team. The stately villa they designed was built on a vast plot of land in a picturesque corner of Poland. The surroundings are like a large park that encourages strolls.
The very location of the building is unique. It is a large, green plot of land, much of which is covered by wetlands. On the one hand, the diversity of the plot is naturally attractive, but on the other, it required very thoughtful design solutions. The house was to have a swimming pool, a spa area or even a helipad and an underground garage for several cars.
The villa was built on an artificial hill. Three ponds have been designed around it. The first is stocked, the second allows swimming under natural conditions and the third is a viewing pond. A heavily glazed building has been created, from which the morning mists and picturesque sunsets can be viewed. The glazing is several metres high. Additional space for outdoor relaxation is provided by terraces that surround the building on the ground floor and a smaller one on the ground floor.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
8. METAMORPHOSIS OF AN OLD COTTAGE IN MAZURIA
Project: TiM Grey Interior Design
Photos: TiM Grey Interior Design
Location: Rudziszki
This is a new chapter in the history of the building. The metamorphosis of an old cottage happened on the initiative of Marek Bernatowicz and Tomasz Motylewski from TiM Grey Interior Design studio. They found a small house in Rudziszki in the Mazury region, which they transformed into an ideal place to live.
The design duo had been thinking about realising such a project for several years. They wanted to buy a post-German habitat to make it available to tenants after renovation.
We know the Masuria region, one of us comes from here, the other fell in love with the place thanks to the first one. We feel good here, we feel that this is our time and place. At the time of the pandemic, the number of people and the increase in investments in the Mazury region made us look for a place that is further away from civilisation, where we can find peace and quiet,” explain Marek Bernatowicz and Tomasz Motylewski.
They found out through word of mouth that there was a cottage for sale in the northern Masuria region, right on the border. The first photos of the building announced that they had a lot of work ahead of them. They went to the site to see the house with their own eyes. Driving between hills of fields, they noticed a green clump of trees and bushes, from behind which nothing could be seen. No house, just the entrance road hidden in an overgrown tunnel. After driving into a vast and sunny courtyard, they spotted an old post-German house, a barn and outbuildings. Everything was drowned in greenery.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
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9. URBAN VILLA IN ŻOLIBORZ. THE BRICKS OF THE FAÇADE WERE FORMED BY HAND
Design: Trzop Architekci
Photographs: Adam Marciniak
Location: Warsaw
The building was designed by architects from the Trzop Architekci studio. The villa was built in 2023 in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw. It is modest, but is distinguished by its original brick façade. The material was imported from Belgium.
Żoliborz is the smallest district in Warsaw. Many people consider it to be the best. It is home to many single-family houses with a villa character, which make a unique impression in green surroundings. Walking along such streets, it is hard to believe that just a 10-minute drive is enough to get to the very centre of Warsaw.
Designing in Żoliborz, surrounded by other buildings, is not an easy task.
The urban villa in Warsaw’s Żoliborz was an interesting challenge for our studio – the unusual requirements of the client, dense urban development in the vicinity of the protected landscape of the Warsaw escarpment, and a plot of small dimensions located at a considerable elevation in relation to the street required us to take a creative approach,” say the authors of the project.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
10. CONTEMPORARY FARMHOUSE UNDER THE FOREST
Design: Kunkiewicz Architects
Photography: Rafał Chojnacki Fotografia Architektury
Location: Nasutów
Architect Mateusz Kunkiewicz of the Kunkiewicz Architekci studio created a unique project that differed from the client’s initial vision. The owners dreamt of a more traditional building – simple and classic, but the architect proposed something bolder. His concept – a contemporary farmhouse – not only blended into the landscape, but also gained a unique character. The clients trusted the designer’s vision and today emphasise that they could not have dreamed of another house.
The buildings’ brick façade gives the project a solid and natural look, while blending harmoniously into the surrounding landscape. Wooden details break up the severity of the brick, giving the composition a warm and cosy feel. Roofs in dark shades complete the design, emphasising its modern style. Each of the buildings that make up the homestead has an assigned function, allowing for comfortable use of the space, both communal and private. This solution is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also very practical.
We published more photos of the house HERE.
Which of the ten houses is the prettiest? Let us know by voting in the poll! Let’s collectively choose the most beautiful houses in Poland!
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