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Beijing Design Week is an annual architectural and art event co-organized by China’s government ministries and the Beijing municipal government. This international event attracts more than 2,000 designers and designers, institutional representatives and industry experts, more than 5 million spectators, more than representatives of 100 accredited media every year. The first edition of Beijing Design Week took place in 2009. Held annually in Beijing since then, the event has quickly become a leading event on the Chinese scene associated with design, architecture and applied arts in the broadest sense.
As part of the rich program of this year’s Beijing Design Week, a session titled Global Future Living Innovation Festival was held in Beijing on September 27-28, 2016, to which architects from 15 countries were invited, including, for the first time in previous editions of the festival, five architects from Poland. In a series of panel discussions and individual presentations, Poland was represented by Krzysztof Ingarden (Ingarden & Ewy), Piotr Śmierzewski (HS99), Robert Strzeński (Horizone Studio), Katarzyna Banasik Petri (F2 Studio) and Wojciech Duliński (APA Czech-Duliński-Wróbel).
On the Chinese side, the conference was attended by representatives of Chinese business, developers, professors and students of architectural universities and Chinese architects.
Horizone Studio was represented at the Beijing event by Robert Strzeński, giving a lecture and taking part in one of the discussion panels.
Polish architects presented their latest projects, including: ICE Krakow Congress Center and Małopolska Garden of Art (Ingarden & Ewy), CINIBA Library in Katowice (HS 99), Ericpol Software Pool office building in Lodz (Horizone Studio), residential building on Brogi Street in Krakow (F2 Studio), design of passenger terminal of Krakow-Balice airport (APA Czech-Duliński-Wróbel).
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