CONGRESS CENTER, KRAKÓW SEE MOVIE ICE KRAKÓW
LOCATION: | Grunwaldzkie Roundabout, Kraków, Poland |
INVESTOR: | Kraków Municipal Commune |
AUTHORS: | arch. Krzysztof Ingarden, arch. Jacek Ewý |
DESIGN CONSULTANT: | Arata Isozaki & Associates |
PROJECT: | 2008–2011 |
CONSTRUCTION: | 2010–2014 |
USABLE FLOOR AREA: | 36,720 sq. m |
AWARDS: | The first place in Meetings Star Award 2016 in the category Convention Centres - the title of the Best Convention Cener in Central and Eastern Europe |
The Leader of Accessibility Award 2016 in the category of public utility building | |
The first place in the international Meetings Star Award 2015 in the category Convention Centres in the competition orgaised by KONGRES magazine - a leading periodical in the meeting industry in Central and Eastern Europe | |
The secend award in the Architecture Salon Award 2015 | |
The Plan Award 2015 honorable mentnion in the category business | |
Kraków - My Home 2015 architectural award in the category of public utility building | |
The Platinum A' Design Award 2015 | |
The title of the best congress centre in Poland awarded by the judges of the Meeting Planner Power Awards 2014 | |
The ”5 Star” Award granted at The International Property Awards in the category: Poland – multi–functional facility | |
World Architecture Festival, Barcelona 2009 – nominated for the main prize in the category of future project / cultural object |
COMPETITION DESIGN TEAM: | First prize in the architectural competition arch. Piotr Urbanowicz, arch. Sebastian Machaj, arch. Jakub Wagner, arch. Piotr Hojda, arch. Bartosz Haduch, arch. Tomasz Koral |
PROJECT MANAGER: | arch. Piotr Urbanowicz |
DESIGN TEAM: | arch. Sebastian Machaj, arch. Piotr Hojda, arch. Jakub Wagner, arch. Agata Staniucha, arch. Jacek Dubiel, arch. Piotr Kita, arch. Tomasz Koral, arch. Sylwester Staniucha, arch. Dariusz Grobelny, arch. Anna Biskupska-Sperka, arch. Sławomir Janas, arch. Hiroyuki Mae, arch. Maciej Szromik, arch. Jacek Szuba, arch. Maciej Wierzbiński, arch. Maja Wilczkiewicz-Janas, arch. Tomasz Żełudziewicz, arch. Marta Brańska, arch. Krzysztof Stępniak |
CO-OPERATION: | Arata Isozaki & Associates: arch. Arata Isozaki, arch. Hiroshi Aoki, arch. Yoko Sano KKM Kozień Architekci: arch. Marek Kozień, arch. Magdalena Kozień-Woźniak, arch. Michał Rączka arch. Beata Tokarska, arch. Marcin Gierbienis K3 Architekci: arch. Piotr Chuchacz, arch. Benedykt Bury, arch. Rafał Chowaniec |
INTERIOR DESIGN: | Ingarden & Ewý Architekci Pracownia s.c.: arch. Agnieszka Cwynar-Łaska, arch. Marta Spodar |
ACOUSTICS: | ARUP Acoustics – Ove Arup & Partners International Limited, Wielka Brytania (Raf Orlowski, Neil Woodger) |
STAGE TECHNOLOGY: | ARUP Venue Consulting (Sam Wise) |
STRUCTURE: | Project Service s.c. |
HVAC, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: | Ove Arup & Partners International Limited sp. z o.o. Branch in Poland |
LANDSCAPE DESIGN: | Land Arch s.c. |
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
ICE Kraków Congress Centre, the modern, world-class congress and concert centre designed by Ingarden & Ewy in cooperation with the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki - result of an open international architectural competition won by the team in the year 2007.
The building is dedicated to cultural events: music, ballet and theatre performance as well as congresses - comprises three main halls with 1791-1915, 600, and 300 seat and a multifunctional conference area with a floor space of 550 square metres which benefits form a system of mobile partitions allowing the free arrangement of this space, plus ancillary rooms and areas including offices, artists' dressing rooms, and a commercial area.
ICE Kraków Congress Centre was designed in conformity with the highest functional and acoustic standards, and equipped with state-of-the-art stage technology systems - the responsibility of experts form ARUP Acoustic (London), ARUP Theatre Consulting (Winchester) and Ramboll Acoustic (Cambridge). With the extensive range of events to be held on the premises in mind, ranging form symphony concerts, rock and jazz music, theatre performances, to major international conferences, the architects decided to design the main hall as semi-vineyard which allows various configurations of both audience and stage thus ensuring the best acoustic setting form every purpose.
Besides the need to cope with functional and technological requirements, the architects designing the building had to take account of its exquisite and unique urban environment. ICE Kraków stands in one of the most prestigious locations in Poland: opposite Wawel Castle. The attractiveness of the Congress Centre results not only form the merits of its architecture and functions but from the locations and the valuable panorama as well. The building boasts a spectacular glass facade facing the Vistula embankment with the multi-storey foyer offering a panoramic view of the ancient City of Kraków situated right opposite. Suspended in the foyer area is a fantastic staircase leading the visitor to the many levels of the Centre, and opening before them successive levels of a panorama over the city, with Wawel Castle located in centre view. The form of the building stoops down in a cascade towards the Vistula so that the scale of the development is optically reduced from the embankment side. The facades are composed of glass, ceramics, and aluminium. The colours of the external ceramic wall tiles reflect the colour rang applied inside the building: the red of the Auditorium Hall, the graphite of the Theatre Hall, The white of the foyer, and the silvery aluminium used for the roof finishing. The architects intended the multi-element composition of the facades to reflect notion and life: the dynamics of a modern developing city.
Through its scale and spectacular form, the building provides a new architectural point of reference for ancient Kraków, a spatially dominant feature symbolising the gate to the city and its modern strategy of development.