Tidying up with Care

Renovation of Franciscan Monastery, Szolnok Architects: Árpád Álmosdi, Monika Csendes Text: Nóra Ostoróczky Photos: Ártér Architects Franciscan monks arrived in Szolnok in 1686, and in 1718 they built their very first church on the site of the present-day monastery, with a thatched roof and adobe. The Franciscans commissioned master builder Joannes Babtista Carlone (1682–1747) from […]

Healing Again

Façade Reconstruction of Kútvölgyi Clinical Centre, Budapest Architects: Elemér Csánk (1944), Antal Lázár, György Stocker (2022) Text: Zsolt István Kiss, Péter Varga Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky After eighty years of operation, the façade of Kútvölgyi Hospital in Budapest has been renewed. Its birthday can be counted since its inauguration in 1944, the start of construction in […]

An Office Block beneath the Gardens

Major Court Office Block, Budapest Architect: Gergely Fernezelyi Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Back in the 18th century Városmajor and the street was a road for carts, flanked by houses with enclosed walls, typically wooded, with back gardens running up the hillside. As the street gradually became more urbanised, this duality was preserved, and […]

From the Cellar to the Attic

Catholic Kindergarten, Budafok-Tétény Architect: Gábor Csanády Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Anna Fábry In the early 1800s, a school was built in the centre of Budafok, behind the Roman Catholic church, in a village then famous for its vineyards and wine cellars. Later on, a cross-wing was added tot he structure on the upper floor, and […]

Free Play

Apartment Building, Budapest Architect: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás BujnovszkyBuilt on the corner of Székely Bertalan and Szondi streets in Terézváros, the condominium seeks responses to the duality between the inherited cityscape and the livable, inhabitable interior spaces as we interpret them today. Here, the spirit of experimentation has given birth to some […]

House for the Garden

Family House, Remeteszőlős Architecture: GUBAHÁMORI Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Balázs Danyi It is a curved building that reveals itself mysteriously, step by step. Clean, coherent and continuous, but not fully reveaing itself all at once. GUBAHÁMORI’s design team has designed an out-of-trend, characteristic and yet not “rebellious” residential house for Remeteszőlős. The house balances between […]

In the Move

Car Park, Sopron Architect: Zoltán Tima Text: Levente Móré Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky What sort of architectural gestures can be used to make a certain building type, the car park, which today has a very poor prestige, more acceptable? Zoltán Tima and his colleagues at KÖZTI have answered this question with a building of austere structure, […]

Ready for Change

Budapest ONE Multi-Storey Car Park, Őrmező Architect: Ágnes Streit Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The newest parking garage of Budapest, built in Őrmező, next to the M1-M7 motorways, provides parking lots for tenants of the Budapest ONE office building and for people who arrive in the city. Its unique, unconventional facade design distinguishes it […]

The Madame’s New Dress

La Samaritaine Department Store, Paris Architects: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa – SANAA Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Agence VUʼ To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the famous department store of Paris named La Samaritaine, in 2020, a new outlook has been created. Designed in 1904 by Belgian architect Frantz Jourdain, the riveted steel-framed […]

Utilisation of the Old Market Hall in Pécs

Students’ Plans for the Architectural Education and Training at the University of Pécs Teachers: Gábor Veres, Ders Csaba, András Greg, Tamás Kondor, Balázs Kokas, Andor Krisztián Kovács, Péter Udvardi In 2013, the Urban Research Group was established at the Institute of Architecture of the University of Pécs with the aim to deal with urban research […]

Budapest Architecture Film Days 2023

Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Kortárs Építészeti Központ Organized since 2008, the annual film festival of the Centre for Contemporary Architecture is always a celebration: for a few days you can watch films about architecture and the built environment and meet friends in the bustling Toldi cinema. This year was a double birthday: Budapest is 150 […]