Sustainable Futures – We Leave No One Behind

UIA World Congress, Copenhagen, 2023 Text: Krisztina Somogyi The International Association of Architects, UIA, organizes its renewal general assembly every three years, where members and interested parties gather from all over the world to discuss the most current architectural topics. This issue in 2023 was sustainability, which was interpreted very broadly at the conference and […]

Concepts for Survive

Strategies for the new challenges of a new century Text: Bálint Botzheim In our current thematic issue, we present different strategies for how the architect can be mindful of the effects on the environment. The first of the presented strategies is recycling. Why build a new one, if the existing building can be adapted to […]

The Luxurious New Aristocrat of Old Budapest

W Hotel (former Drechsler Palace), Budapest Architect: Béla Bánáti Text: György Szegő Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The office of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos in 1883, right after the design of the Szeged Town Hall, received a commission from the MÁV Pension Institute to design the apartment building opposite the Opera. The building was inspired by […]

Contemporary Palisade

Foton, Veszprém Architects: Orsolya Nóbik, Attila Szilvási Text: János Géczi Photos: Csaba Toroczkai / VEB2023 EKF The baroque stable building at the south-western end of Veszprém Castle, at the junction of the inner space of the bastion under the Fire Tower, the office building of the House of Arts and the courtyard of the Csikász […]

Instead of Demolition

Divinus House, Budapest Architects: Klára K. Artner (1972), Zoltán Durst (2022) Text and photos: Eszter Götz The heyday of rowing life on the Danube at Római riverbank, was fading in the early 1970s, but boathouses were still plentiful when the era of union holiday homes began to be built here. One of the most famous […]

Cubic Houses Reinterpreted

The Grafit Studio’s Sample Designs Text and concept: Grafit Studio The designs for the Lechner Centre’s 2019 competition for the idea of a model design allow for the redesign of the well-known “cube house” type design into expandable detached family houses that meet today’s needs and trends. Grafit Studio architects designed variations for both rural […]