Paweł Graliński | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1961 |
Birth Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
Alma Mater: | Warsaw University of Technology |
Significant Buildings: | Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw |
Paweł Wiktor Graliński is a Polish architect who specializes in planning and design of mixed-use developments and commercial and entertainment centres in Poland and Europe.
Graliński attended the Warsaw University of Technology, at the Faculty of Architecture studying the work of the Polish Academy of Sciences. While there, he was involved in anti-communist opposition and graduated in 1984.
He moved to Oslo, Norway in 1984 and from 1986, he led the design office "Andersen, Larsson, Graliński AS" and founded his own design studio in 1988. In the eighties and nineties in Scandinavia, his contribution was in shopping centres. He also designed insurance company headquarters, office buildings, coastal land developments, housing, redevelopment projects, and residential sites.
He was invited to design Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw In 1996 and in 1997 he founded his own architectural firm in Poland: Paweł W. Graliński Arch Magic Assoc.[1] architects, dealing with investment projects and real estate development. Graliński designed entertainment projects, university buildings, offices, industrial areas, and residential areas.[2]
Graliński belongs to the Association of Norwegian Architects, the Chamber of Architects, the Engineers Chamber of the Republic of Poland, and the Association of Polish Architects.
He lives outside of Warsaw in a house of his own design, cultivates a vineyard, and breeds racing dogs.
In 2002, Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw, which he designed, was recognised by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) for its design. It was the first ICSC award for a project in Central and Eastern Europe regions.[3]
He was further recognised for: