Polish visual artist Alicja Bia?a has painted a set of colourful large-scale murals inside the Concordia Design building in Wroc?aw, Poland, as part of its renovation and extension by architecture firm MVRDV.
The murals cover 500 square metres of the office building and rise as high as ten metres. The art was informed by the architecture of the building, as well as local folklore.
Top image: the mural reaches ten metres to the ceiling. Above: the building on S?odowa Island. Photo is by Juliusz Sokolowski
Bia?a, who also designed a large light sculpture for the project, lived on-site for five months while painting them and used discarded materials from the site for some of her designs.
She worked around the existing architecture to design the murals that depict characters, some of them mythical, as well as flora and fauna. Folklore and mythical figures feature in the mural. Photo is by Juliusz Sokolowski
"It was quite complex to plan out and design, given that it's not one wall, it's not flat," Bia?a told Dezeen.
"The main painting consists of connected two walls and ceilings. All had to work well from all perspectives, different angles and be coherent."
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV renovated and extended an existing 19th-century building on the S?odowa Island in Wroc?aw to create Concordia Design, keeping the facade of the historical building.
Concordia Design's restaurant is covered in murals. Photo is by Patryk Lewinski
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