A new multi-purpose building, which is a showcase for the entire museum complex has been developed on the premises of the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow. Its official opening took place on 18th September 2010. The building has been designed by a team of architects: Pysall Ruge Architekten with Bartlomiej Kisielewski (since 2009 co-owner of Horizone Studio). Their proposal won an international architectural competition held in 2005.
The resulting space creatively refers to the historic landscape of the former airport. With its shape, the building resembles a powerful windmill or propeller. Thanks to the composition of the body in the form of three wings, the new building does not dominate the existing historical buildings, and by its transparency allows visual contact between the various elements of the environment.
With its distinctive form, the new Aviation Museum building not only expresses the function it performs, but also invites visitors to explore it.
The building of the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow has been repeatedly published in the press and shown at exhibitions in Poland and abroad. It won the J.Bogdanowski Award for the best building completed in Krakow in 2010 and was nominated for the most important European architectural award, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2011.
In 2012, it won the top prize at the Cemex Building Awards and was named the world’s best public building made of architectural concrete.
