The Hungarian Pavilion Concept and text: Hetedik Műterem Photos: Balázs Danyi In the exhibition space of the Leipzig Book Fair, spanning several thousand square meters, every spring the most recent Hungarian books translated to German are displayed in the national pavilion with and area of a few tens of square meters. Focusing on a specific […]
Set on Track
TVE Sports Centre, Óbuda Architect: János Plájer Text: Sándor Csontó Photos: Zsolt Batár In 2017 the citizens of Óbuda came into possession of the new recreation centre of the Sports, Gymnastics and Fencing Association of District III. The comprehensive revival of the sports complex contains the educational swimming pool, running tracks and sports fields, as […]
Treasure from Bread
Reconstruction of a Historic Granary, Budajenő Architect: Balázs Csóka Text: Anna Szövényi Photos: Zsófia Kedves A Baroque-style granary has been restored in Budajenő, the original timber structure of which dates back to the 1700s, featuring a roofing supported by wooden Doric columns, which has preserved its girder and roof in fine condition. During the reconstruction […]
Unity Made Complete
Lutheran Kindergarten, Győr Architect: Péter Ráskai Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The evangelical district of Győr called Insula Lutherana is a unique architectural complex with its insular embedding into the city fabric. The structure of this extraordinary development preserved till now has been revived in a few years in one stage, thanks to a […]
Embracing walls
Kindergarten, Niederolang Architects: feld72 Text: Zsuzsa Beliczay Photos: Hertha Hurnhaus The house for a kindergarten in Valdaora di Sotto, South Tyrol, illustrates the local mesh of tradition, contemporary life and nature within the slowly grown village structure. This third kindergarten designed by feld72 aligns itself to the setting, without being subordinate to it. Subtly placed, […]
Voluntary architecture
Social School, Ghana Architects: Funk Bogdán, Balázs Szelecsényi, Orsolya Vadász, Diána Nusszer, Csinszka Cserháti, Roland Németh Text: Funk Bogdán Photos: Funk Bogdán, William Newman Koforidua in Ghana has a primary school where students have their education in an overcrowded store building, as well as on the corridors learn and under a shabby tin-roof. A team […]
A Church on the Border
St John XXIII Chapel, Budapest, Rákoskert Architect: György Major Text: Vilmos Katona Photos: László Francsics The community of St Elizabeth’s Church in Rákoscsaba phrased their wish in the autumn of 2013 to have a new chapel built. The goal was to have it constructed on a site easy to access God’s house even for those […]
An Open Gate
The Reception Building of Graphisoft Park Architect: Péter Sugár Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The new reception building of Graphisoft Park represents the entirety of the complex, not with its formal attractive appearance, but by mediating deeper thoughts. All this is accomplished with extraordinarily light and easy gestures and cheerful relaxed attitude with the […]
„Facelifting” Projects of Theatres
Centrál and Örkény Theatres, Kálmán Imre Stage, Budapest Architects: Gergely Fernezelyi (Centrál Színház), Krisztián Vincze (Örkény Színház), Budapesti Operettszínház (Kálmán Imre Teátrum) Text: Iván Szabó-Jilek Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky, Zsolt Batár, Iván Szabó-Jilek The majority of the Budapest-based theatres, with the exception of the National Theatre and the Festival Theatre, are more then a century old […]
Win-Win
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Michel Denancé In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Renzo Piano Building Workshop was selected for the project following an invited competition in 2008. The brief […]
Theatre as a public space
OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 is an international ideas competition, aimed at students and emerging architecture practitioners, and is organised by the Architecture Commission of OISTAT (International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians). The result of the 10th Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 has been announced in Hsinchu City in […]
Green Submarine
Mansion in Budaörs-Farkasrét Architects: Nagy Csilla, Tóth Zoltán Text: Dudics Krisztián Photos: Bujnovszky Tamás The new mansion is an addition to the suburban streetscape featuring traditional detached houses: it is actually located beneath a „green carpet”. Architects with Artgroup, Csilla Nagy and Zoltán Tóth had the task to build it on an almost ideal site […]