Bee Breeders has announced the winner of the Krakow Oxygen Home competition, which asked designers to reconsider contemporary architectural conventions with respect to current cultural and global issues in the city of Krakow, Poland. Due to the large number of coal-burning furnaces in the city, residents of Krakow are threatened by air pollution, which has resulted in a sky-rocketing number of cases of asthma, lung disease, and lung cancer. The competition brief called for the ?design of a care center for lung cancer patients as part of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute of Oncology.?

Courtesy of Nima Nian & Behdad Heydari

Bee Breeders has announced the winner of the Krakow Oxygen Home competition, which asked designers to reconsider contemporary architectural conventions with respect to current cultural and global issues in the city of Krakow, Poland. Due to the large number of coal-burning furnaces in the city, residents of Krakow are threatened by air pollution, which has resulted in a sky-rocketing number of cases of asthma, lung disease, and lung cancer. The competition brief called for the ?design of a care center for lung cancer patients as part of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute of Oncology.?
Courtesy of Nima Nian & Behdad Heydari

The first prize winner, according to the team of jurors, was characterized by ?schematic coherence, sensitive invention, and material resolution.? The design, located in Br...