An Urban Structure Being Re-Evaluated

Southern Railway Station, Budapest Text: dr. Nagy Béla It did not take long for the world to recognize the significance of rail travel. Only appr. ten years after the opening of the Stockton – Darlington railway line, the law of 1836. XXV. was passed to start the construction of the railway routes between Pest-Buda and […]

Forged into one

Municipal Offices and Train Station, Delft Architects: Mecanoo Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Harry Cock, Mecanoo Six years after the original announcement of the project, the first phase of Mecanoo’s new Train Station and City Hall complex in Delft, has been opened to the public. The station, in combination with municipal offices and the new city […]

Lovely Playfulness

Bus Station, Szentgotthárd Architect: Géza Kendik Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The concept of the newly inaugurated bus terminal passenger lounge in Szentgotthárd was based on a clear formula faultlessly consistent from both a formal and a functional viewpoint. Designers had two inspiring points of reference to start from. The first one was an […]

Riding a Bus in a Pompous Way

Coach Terminal, Keszthely Architect: Tamás Riedl Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In Keszthely, the neighbourhood of the railway station was chosen for this purpose, which seems like a widespread solution. Being subordinated to the railway, coach transport had not possessed a terminal of its own so far: the roofless platforms and the bus terminal […]

Up close and far away

Star Park, Zselic Architects: Judit Erdélyi-Gáspár, Róbert Erdélyi Text: Judit Fenyvesi Photos: Barbara Deák, Judit Fenyvesi, Gábor Szellő As a result of a large-scale development of tourist facilities including several structures, the Star Park of Zselic had been completed by the summer of 2015. Being the least light-polluted area of Hungary, it is located in […]

Land art on the Top of the World

Messner Mountain Museum, Corones, Italy Architect: Zaha Hadid Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zaha Hadid Architects Embedded within the summit of Mount Kronplatz, 2,275m above sea level at the centre South Tyrol’s most popular ski resort, the Messner Mountain Museum Corones is surrounded by the alpine peaks of the Zillertal, Ortler and Dolomites. Established by renowned […]

Building Game

Dévényi Antal Lookout Tower, Nagy-Kopasz Hill Architect: Dr. Ferenc Lőke Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tibor Zsitva Rising above Piliscsaba, Nagy-Kopasz Hill is crowned with a lookout tower which is the true reflection of a very simple gesture: it seems to have been constructed much in the same way as a little boy would have built […]

In-Between High-tech and Simplicity

Detached Family House, Pécs, Mecsek-Side Architect: Tamás Getto, Tímea Schunk Text: Gergő Radev Photos: Márton Getto, Tímea Schunk The client contacted the designers with a ready-made written programme of the rooms to be contained in the would-be house and a firm, well-defined comprehensive concept in mind which was eventually realized and implemented by Tímea Schunk […]

A Hidden Sacral Axis

St Gellért Hotel and Study House, Székesfehérvár Interior design: Pál Somogyi Text: János Dobó Photos: József Rosta Guests, residents and visitors to St Gellért Hotel and study house in Székesfehérvár may witness today the rebirth of both the exterior and interior – a project which proves a most yielding meeting of the client, architects, interior […]

Kossuth Mausoleum Salvaged

The renewed monument was opened Architect: Kálmán Gerster, 1909 Text: György Szegő Photos: László Sebestyén, Zoltán Kapusi – NÖRI The burial was indeed the most theatrical funeral ceremony of all times in the history of Hungary: as the politician acted as the engine of the Reform Age, was a charismatic man of state during the […]

Architects, Archive!

Szöveg: Ulrich Tamás
A KÖZTI 66 című könyv ünnepélyes bemutatóján is, valamint a FUGA-ban történt ismertetésen is elhangzott Ferkai Andrástól: „Ha nem semmisült volna meg a Közti tervtár anyaga nem is vállaltam volna a feladatot.”

The Fifth Tree Ring

A Brief Survey 2015 – Restoring Historic Buildings in Pest County Text: Gábor Nagy The leaflet titled A Brief Survey (in Hungarian: Egy kis mustra) has been published now for the fifth time with the ambition to present restoration projects of historic buildings completed in the current year. Launched in 2011, the year when governmental […]