The new building to house Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH (founded in 1919) stands in the neighbourhood of Postdamer Platz in Berlin. Functioning as a scientific exhibition centre, it is also suited for the representation of the company in the capital.

Modelled as a composition of spridron-components (spidrohedrons or spiralling triangles), this piece of plastic art is exhibited in Steigenberger Herrenhof Hotel in downtown Vienna, almost opposite the Burg. Hanging underneath the glass ceiling, this spatial module evokes the clouds of Greek myths…

Situated in downtown Vienna, the former palace of Archduke Charles now houses a museum containing a variety of thematic units in line with the complex functions of the institution. The digitalized archives appearing as a traditional exhibition of music history, the mystic space called Sonosphere meant to offer the exploration of acoustic phenomena…

Pannon has not had a genuine centre in Hungary so far, so its employees worked in several office buildings scattered about. In 2005 the management made a decision to have a new centre built with Telenor, the owner of the international trust and acquired a vacant – actually virgin – lot at the western gate of Budapest.

The project named Camera Obscura by Anna Fabricius and Tibor Gyenis has been realized within the Art-Universitas Programme at the University of Miskolc. Set in a unique campus of Hungary, Camra has been built slightly off-centre to function both as a building and an optical device.

The Giardini Pubblici in Venice has been hosting international exhibitions of art since 1895. Hungary has participated in these biennales since the very beginning.The permanent home of its exhibitions, the art gallery called the Hungarian House was completed 100 years ago, in 1909.

Designed and constructed by Gyula Wälder, the Music Palace of Miskolc was completed within two years (1926–27). However, its reconstruction takes longer as it is delayed by embarrassing complications. The necessity of this project had already been phrased in the 1980s.

Tilos („Prohibited”) Rádió, the first free civilian radio in Hungary, started broadcasting on August 21st, 1991. Thanks to the community of the radio, its audience and its ever widening social recognition, it has become an integral part of cultural life in Budapest.

Gömböc („haggis”) is the first known homogeneous body with two points of equilibrium, a stable and an unstable one. The question whether such a body exists was raised by V.I Arnold Russian mathematician in 1995 whilst having a conversation with Gábor Domokos at a conference in Hamburg.

One of the recurring issues of urbanistics is why urban rehabilitation is necessary. There is a variety of answers to it from aspects of city-planning, heritage protection, technology, sociology and housing policy among others. However, we tend to ask this question repeatedly from time to time, and it givesus food for thought. Because urban rehabilitation is a global issue.

Centrope (Central European Region) is a region taking shape and developing at the meeting point of four Central European countries – Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary –, and is based on the regional co-operation of the partner regions bridging over the frontiers of these states.

Who are the people the event of the city’s European Capital of Culture is meant for? This question is unavoidable – also here. The city does not represent with its past, as the cultural and architectural heritage of Linz cannot rival with that of several other sites throughout Austria.