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Robert Konieczny (born in 1969), founded KWK Promes together with Marlena Wolnik in 1999. At present he ramains a single owner. KWK Promes received many national and international awards for completed and unrealized projects. His Broken House created together with Marlena Wolnik is recognized as one of the icons of Polish architecture. For the same project he was nominated to European Prize of the Miesa van der Rohe Foundation. He was nominated to more times for the Komoda House (together with Marlena Wolnik) in 2004 and for the Aatrial Housein 2006. The last one was named the House of the Year by winning a contest by a prestigious portal World Architecture News (Konieczny was the first Pole, to be qualified to the contest). In 2007 KWK Promes was on the Wallpaper's list of the 101 most exciting architectural offices in the world (the only one from Poland). In 2007 a Spanish publishing house Scalae numbered KWK Promes among the 44 best young architects in the world. Besides that, during the second International Competition for young Architects Leonardo 2007 organized in Minsk KWK Promes received a gold medal for the Hidden House, a Grand Prix for the Aatrial House for the best completed project, and a special prize of the Russian Architect Association. In 2008 Robert Konieczny was the prizewinner of the Europe 40 under 40 - Europe's Emerging Young Architects and Designers awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum. At the same time the Aatrial House and the Hidden House were named the best buildings in the world of 2008 (The International Architecture Awards 2008). In 2008 the OUTrial and Safe Houses were also nominated to the European Mies'a van der Rohe Prize (altogether there were 5 nominations to the European edition). In 2011 Robert Konieczny was awarded with the Annual Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.