This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
This office-warehouse building, which we designed for a specialist pipe distribution company, was intended to serve as a showcase for their headquarters. However, we were asked to do it at the lowest possible cost.
Since the building was meant to be their signature landmark, we came up with the idea of referencing the material they trade in, even though it could not be used directly for the façade. Instead, the it was made of inexpensive, raw aluminum sheets.
We wanted the office and warehouse sections to form a unified whole. As a result, we designed the building to resemble a stack of pipes, immediately communicating the company’s field of business.
A production hall once stood on this site, but the immediate surroundings consist of residential houses, often accompanied by outbuildings. This inspired the final form of the building. Gambit forms a frontage from the street, while, when viewed from the residential district, its fragmented mass blends into the dispersed urban fabric.
| name: | gambit office |
| authors: | robert konieczny |
| michał lisiński | |
| collaboration: | katarzyna pająk |
| karol jackiewicz | |
| karol knap | |
| krzysztof kobiela | |
| interior design: | kwk promes |
| construction: | firma inżynierska statyk |
| investor: | gambit systems |
| site area: | 714,84 m2 |
| usable floor area: | 943,42 m2 |
| design: | 2013 |
| realization: | 2024 |
| photos: | juliusz sokołowski |
| awards: | archilovers best project’25 |
| office building of the year | |
| archello awards 2025 | |
| pulse award 2025 |
| in public building category | |
| architecture of the year competition | |
| of the silesian voivodeship: | |
| main prize public utility building | |
| international architecture award | |
| in office building category | |
| honorable mention in the building | |
| of the year awards sarp 2025 | |
| publications: | iw magazine 01 2026 |
| wallpaper 05 2024 | |
| dbz 09 2025 | |
| the plan 09 2024 | |
| domus 04 2025 | |
| architektura 02 2024 | |
| exhibitions: | 100 architects of the year 2025 selected by |
| the korean institute of architects | |
| and uia, seul 2025 | |
| silesian voivodeship architecture | |
| review 2019-2025, katowice 2025 | |
| from libeskind to konieczny, poznań 2025 | |
| logic of space, poznań 2024 | |
| buildings + ideas, audi gliwice 2024 | |