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Restoration Project, Fasor Lutheran Church, Budapest Architects: Piroska Varga, Zoltán Berzsák Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: József Hajdú The church of the Reformed Parish of Budapest-Fasor was designed by Aladár Árkay in 1913. The condition of the structure has deteriorated considerably in recent decades, and its design deficiencies have become increasingly apparent meanwhile. Both these issues […]
Sisters of the Cross Centre, Budapest Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In Buda’s Városmajor Street, this extraordinary building has stood on this site since 1847, its neo-Gothic style shining out from the streetscape of today. It was used as a residential building until 1994, when it became the property […]
Extension of the St Anthony’s Franciscan High School and College, Esztergom Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The new educational wing of the Franciscan High School and College of St. Anthony of Esztergom was completed in autumn, 2024. The building, which was designed by Gutowski Architects, follows the previous concept and forms […]
Interior renovation of the Reformed Church, Alsózsolca Architect, interior designer: Emese Bunyik Text: Rita Tuczai Photos: Gergely Gosztom Four years ago, the Reformed Congregation of Alsózsolca invited Emese Bunyik, an interior architect, to design the renovation of their church. The financial possibilities offered a framework for the client and the designer to try to make […]
This time, our supplement, Utóirat (Postscriptum) we have selected some of the presentations given at the conference Collecting the Scattered Stones, organised by the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Documentation Centre for Monument Protection in December 2024 to celebrate the 140 th anniversary of the birth of architect Károly Kós. For briefness, the presentations were […]
Text: Eszter Dénes In the lives of the two intellectual greats, Károly Kós and Imre Makovecz, in their extraordinarily powerful creative behaviour, in the driving forces of their architecture and in their role in the interests of progressive socio-artistic-cultural unity, countless parallels and points of intersection emerge. Their sense of proportion, their abundance of talent, […]
The Survival of Tradition in the Architecture of Kós’s Followers Text: Gábor Erhardt The author of the study compares the contemporary concepts of vernacular, national and modern architecture in the context of Károly Kós’ architecture, the direction of „progress” as formulated by Kós and its examples embodied in plans and buildings, viewing contemporary Scandinavian architecture […]
The Legacy of Károly Kós in the Collections of the MÉM MDK Text: Fanni Izabella Magyaróvári The collections of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Documentation Centre for the Protection of Historic Monuments contain about 780 plans and 225 photographs of Károly Kós’s works, that is more than 1,000 objects specifically related to his individual […]
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2023 Concept and text: Dóra Tihanyi, BME Consultant: Péter Kronavetter DLA The Pauline monastery of Kőkút („Stone Well”) in Salföld is one of the oldest monuments of the order, with a history dating back to the 1260s. The scheme proposes to enhance the significance of the site and to develop its uses. […]
MÉK-MÉSZ Diploma Award 2023 Text and concept: Mátyás Weisz Consultant: Balázs Falvai DLA Theatre education, drama pedagogy as a form of education and training combines traditional education with the theatre, and thus makes learning more colourful for children. Drama education training takes place mostly on-site in schools. The plan will provide a home for theatre […]
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 […]
Diploma Thesis Concept and text: Marcell Szuhanyik As we enter the 21st century, retreats are not just religiously motivated and led. Through a variety of systems of thought, as part of physical and spiritual exercises, and also as a contrast to our everyday life, time spent alone or in a group with the same purpose […]
Developing the centre of a settlement, Gyermely Architects: Péter Gereben, Balázs Marián Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: Balázs Danyi Having in-depth knowledge of the structure of the village Gyermely, the team named Gereben Marián Architects managed by Balázs Marián DLA and Péter Gereben found themselves a challenge here at the end of the 2000s. As a […]
Facelifted Benedictine Convent House, Kőszeg Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Dr. Ferenc Miszlivetz Photos: Tibor Ohr An eventful year started in 2014 when ISES Foundation was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office to work out a study on viability with the aim to save the architectural heritage of Kőszeg almost on the brink of complete deterioration […]
Intimacy, creativity, flow Text: Tamás Fejérdy, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Laura Takács Architectural spaces do not tend to be utility calculations in the case of historic towns, as they are born based on human needs, well-established and fixed habits, the respect of old times, the gripping effect of the view, that is natural, cultural and aesthetic codes. […]
Volcanoes Park, Zalahaláp Sculptors: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Text: Balázs Szász Photos: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Born in a family of doctors and artists, Chilean-Hungarian sculptor Rhea Marmentini started to realize one of her long-time dream at the meeting point of Mediterranean and continental climates: to reconstruct a wound on the landscape of Haláp Hill, […]
