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Zygmunt Borawski
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Zygmunt Borawski:
used to be an editor of the Architecture & Design section. A blueprint poet.

Ola and Przemek have a home that is powered only by the sun. They breathe clean air, don’t have to worry about mold, and their energy bills are ridiculously low. This is their story, as told from within the house they had built themselves.

We had an apartment in a building. I had been a bank manager for many years; Przemek had a motorcycle garage, he was previously in the military. Later, I enrolled in cultural studies and took a position as a preschool teacher. We dreamed of having a house. And so we started looking for land. Twice we could have bought a bad plot, but my dad saved us the first

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Zygmunt Borawski:
used to be an editor of the Architecture & Design section. A blueprint poet.
Translation: Aga Zano
Publish date: 23.07.2018

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