Smart City Lab Budapest

Design Terminal Budapest launches the Smart City Lab Budapest Competition 2015 to provide an opportunity for creative professionals to turn their innovative urban development ideas into action. Applications in 2014 focused on urban infrastructure, while this year’s theme is about the personal city-experience and the people’s responsibility towards their environment. The announcer is waiting for […]

RE-DESIGN – Stand

Student Competition The Humusz Association is waiting for creative proposals that are possible to realize from recycled or remnant materials. The aim is to raise awareness of the re-usability of waste materials, to promote the “re-design” trend, and to promote environmental thinking in everyday life. The theme of the contest is the stand. Candidates need […]

Sárospatak Historical City – in a Different Way

Exhibition of the Department of Architecture at the University of Debrecen Új-Bástya Exhibition Hall, Sárospatak, 26 February – 23 March 2015 Opening: 26 February 2015, 5 p.m. Exhibitors: Attila Balla, Natália Balogh, Tamás Balogh, Bettina Barna, Enikő Barta, Dávid Burzuk, Tamás Csépke, Mariann Czapár, Ildikó Kiss, Tamás Kiss, Zsolt Mihály Kondorosi, Áron Lality, Dénes Nagy, […]

In Memoriam of a House

No. 40 Király Street, Budapest Architect: József Hild (1789–1867) Text: József Vinkó Photos: Martin Fejér Completed in 1844 after designs by József Hild, this Revivalist Classicist building had been one of the gems of the Jewish quarter for some 250 years. Then the association named Óvás („Protection”) made history when starting its activities to protect […]

Kotsis Iván Commemorative Medallion 2014

Béla Kerékgyártó Association of Hungarian Architects, 15 December 2015 Founded in 1989, the medal named after Iván Kotsis is actually a “fair play” prize awarded to Hungarian architects by the Association of Hungarian Architects year by year on December 15th, the birthday of its denominator based on nominations by a board of curators. At the […]

In the Urban Fabric

The New Parish Church of Zoltán Meszlényi the Blessed Architect: Róbert Jahoda Text: Tamás Meggyesi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky One could hardly take on the task to assess and interpret the new Catholic church of the Lágymányos district in Kelenföld without referring to the contemporary conditions of sacred architecture as such and thus entering into the […]

Sacred Design

The New Image of the Mortuary in Vác Designer: Zsombor Kiss Text: Szabolcs Bence Török Photos: László Beliczay The mortuary in a district of Vác named Alsóváros had been in need of both exterior and interior reconstruction for years. Launched last year, the project actually started with the re-designing of the interiors, leaving us only […]