About the future of the Budavár National Electricity Spreader Building
According to news published recently, the Hungarian Government intends to demolish the much disputed, yet iconic Budavár National Electricity Spreader building. The Association of Hungarian Architects is convinced …
2020/3
A New Issue Concerning Lechner’s Revolution
Debt of a Century, Prolonged
Text: György Szegő
The greatest master of Hungarian Art Nouveau, Ödön Lechner was born on August 17th, 1845. Now, in 2020 we are celebrating his 175th birthday. Celebrations like this are supposed to …
Intertwining Gestures
St John Paul II Church, Páty
Architect: Robert Gutowski
Text: Tamás Kiss
Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky
The church is located in the heart of the village, on a gently inclining neighbourhood surrounded by detached family houses built in the …
Broadway Melody
The Reconstruction of the Thalia Orangery
Architect: Krisztián Vincze
Text: György Szegő
Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky
One of the most unique curiosities of the „Pest Broadway” is the building of Thália Theatre in which a minor theatre was now reborn …
The House of the Exchange Egg
Kecskemét Campus, Education Building
Architects: Lajos Hartvig DLA, Gábor Nyéki, Béla Bánáti
Text: Mária Tatai
Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky
Based in Kecskemét, János Neumann University was founded by uniting several colleges of the Great Hungarian Plain in 2000. In Autumn …
Along the Arch of a Circle
Detached House, Gödöllő
Architects: Zoltán Horváth, Márton Benedek, Balázs Juhász
Text: Sándor Csontó
Photos: Nóra Bereczki
Architect Péter Kaffka designed a complex in Gödöllő in 1940 to contain three houses for a company of well-known Budapest-based artists. Using means …
Reconstruction of the History
Fort Captain’s Lodge, Gödöllő, ICOMOS Prize 2020
Architect: Gábor Kruppa
Tex: Eszter Götz
Photos: Török Tamás / Topogram
Located next to the castle in Gödöllő, the fort captain’s lodge was built around 1750 and whenever it was used it …
Genuine Modernist
Detached House Budakeszi, German Design Award 2020
Architect: Attila Borsay
Text: Bálint Botzheim
Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky
Attila Borsay designed a new detached house in Budakeszi on a steep and narrow site, surrounded b a chaotic residential environment, which was …
The Nature of Transformation
Remodelling a Detached Family House, Balatonalmádi
Architect: Tamás Tomay
Text and photos: István Gyulovics
Situated on a corner lot defined b three streets, the residential house remodelled after designs by Tamás Tomay is found in the inner part …
Museum under the City
Amos Rex Museum, Hensinki
Architect: Asmo Jaaksi – JKMM Architects
Text: Eszter Götz
Photos: Tuomas Uusheimo, Hannu Rytky, Mika Huisman
Located in the heart of the city, Amos Rex is sited across from the 1920s classicist Parliament building and …
Tisza Forest School and Trail
Thesis, MOME Institute of Architecture
Concept and text: Levente Szász
Consultant: András Göde
Northern-Eastern Hungary is one of the poorest areas in our country. People are struggling with ethnic and economic problems which distort the minds of the children …
Urbanistics with Corona Virus Fever?
Text: Richárd Ongjerth
Disasters have played major roles in the development of cities in two different ways so far. Firstly, fires, floods, earthquakes, or even volcano eruptions often destroyed existing settlements, annihilating long-standing conditions, circumstances of existence. Such events …