Will McLean, Pete Silver: Sustainable and Regenerative Materials for Architecture: A Sourcebook Text: Lilla Lapinskas Sustainable use of materials has become one of the most pressing and exciting issues in architecture in recent years. In this context, Will McLean and Pete Silver’s newly published book titled Sustainable and Regenerative Materials for Architecture: A Sourcebook is […]
2025
City Gardens in the Mirror of the Gentrification
New Urban Public Space Usage Demands in Central Districts of Budapest Text: János Balázs Kocsis, Zsuzsanna Fáczányi, Andrea Keresztes-Sipos In recent decades, urban life and communities have undergone significant changes as a result of economic and social processes taking place in city centres. In addition to gentrification induced by economic and demographic factors, attitudes towards […]
Rome and Vienna
The Austrian Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale Text: Bálint Botzheim Carlo Ratti is the chief curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. His keywords, Intelligence, Natural, Artificial, Collective, are also used also as the title of this year’s biennale. The curators of the Austrian pavilion, Lorenzo Romito, Sabine Pollak and Michael Olbrist, address today’s […]
Suburbia
Living the American Dream, AZ W Text: Eszter Götz Photos: AZ W Suburbia traces the history of an ideal life-style that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world and is constantly reproduced by popular media. At the same time, the exhibition analyzes the contradictions of this model and its social and ecological […]
State Architecture Awards on Hungarian Architecture Day
Pesti Vigadó, 16. 12. 2024. Since 2023, Károly Kós’s birthday, 16 December, has been officially the Hungarian Architecture Day, and the most prestigious state architectural awards are presented on this occasion. The most prestigious Hungarian architectural recognition, the Károly Kós Lifetime Achievement Award, which was established in 2023, was presented to István Ferencz, Kossuth Prize-winning […]
Budapest Architectural Excellence Award 2024
FUGA, 05.12.2024. On December 5th, the results of the Budapest Architectural Award 2024 competition were announced and the awards were then presented at the FUGA. The aim of this competition is to recognise and publicise the most outstanding works of architecture that shape the cityscape. Of the 18 entries received for the 2024 competition, the […]
Iván Kotsis Award 2023: Péter Kovács DLA
This recognition awarded by the Association of Hungarian Architects is a „fair-play prize” of professionals symbolizing the approach authenticated also by the oeuvre of the denominator with his pursue of his vocation with the modesty of an architect based on ethics. Besides, it is also an appreciation of high-standard education. At the awards ceremony held […]
Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award 2024
The Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award was founded in 2010 by the Foundation for the Hungarian Arts, at the initiative of architects Attila Komjáthy and his wife, Ilona Komjáthyné Kremnicsán. The recognition makes the press work for Hungarian architecture visible to the general public. It is awarded for quality journalistic activity appearing in printed or electronic […]
What Lake Balaton Means for Me
Holiday Visitors’ Centre, Balatonfüred Architects: László Herczeg, Tamás Vörös DLA Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Fenes Gaining fame as the Esterházy Mansion in Balatonfüred, the history of the former holiday home dates from the late 18th century to the 1960s. The L-shaped building, built in 1782 in its first phase, was still a single-floor structure, […]
The Authenticity of the Site
Reconstruction of Wenckheim Castle, Szabadkígyós Architects: Csaba Balogh, Ágnes Deigner, Levente Sirokai, Péter Sónicz Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Levente Sirokai After the Wenckheim-Almásy Castle in Gyula, the Wenckheim Castle in Szabadkígyós became a place of arrival for both the family who built it and the architectural firm that managed the reconstruction. For Krisztina and Frigyes […]
Our Past Glory
Reconstruction of Tisza Castle, Geszt Architects: András Katona, András Zakariás, Tamás Zakariás Text: Eszter Götz, Domonkos Wettstein Photos: Balázs Danyi It took nine years of comprehensive development within the framework of the National Castle Programme to open the Tisza Castle in Geszt, the ancient home of the Tisza family, in the summer of 2024, after […]
Disciplined Play
Calvinist Kindergartens, Gyömrő, Dunaharaszti, Mándok Architect: Dezső Ekler Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In the shadow of the pandemic, several plans for Calvinist kindergartens were completed almost simultaneously in Dezső Ekler’s office to be built by autumn 2022. The kindergartens planned for various municipalities in the country are just like brothers and sisters. Their […]