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Kodály Palace, Budapest Architect: Ferenc Nedár Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Attila Gulyás One of the most historic buildings of Kodály Circus, the Royal Hungarian State Railways Pension Institute was completed in 1883 and was owned by the company that constructed it until 1949, when it was nationalised. In the summer of 2014, the wooden roof […]
BGE Library and Student Centre, Budapest Architects: Péter Gereben, Balázs Marián Text: Mihály Balázs Photos: Balázs Danyi The BGE Library and Student Centre is located in a typical Eastern European urban landscape: a social-rehab housing estate built in the 1950s, with a neighbourhood of detached houses with gardens. Between the two there is a space […]
District Prosecutor’s Office, Siklós Architect: András Greg Text: Péter Zilahi Photos: The Greypixel The rather eclectic, winding main street of the historic downtown of Siklós is typically enclosed and relatively narrow in scales and proportions. The town hall, which used to house the district prosecutor’s office, is situated in a corner position in the opening […]
Budapest Architecture Film Days 2024 Text: Mária Tatai This year, the Contemporary Architecture Centre’s film festival was organised by a team of designers with new members. I translated the catchy English slogan — People behind — in the title of the article as Human Stories, partly because in the last film of the festival, Balkrishna […]
Architectural Additives of the Tycho Project Text: Alexander Gyeres Collecting materials for his Tycho Project, Alexander Gyenes has visited several European observatories from the Early Modern era. Some of the most remarkable solar observatories, in the form of functionalized meridian lines, were housed in cathedrals. The Tycho Project represents his attempt at creating a surface […]
Modernity and the Search for Tradition in Károly Weichinger’s Realized Buildings and Later Writings Text: Márk Váncza Károly Weichinger (1893-1982), Kossuth Prize-winning architect, is a recognised figure of 20th-century Hungarian architecture. His design work, dating from the interwar era, is characterised by a balancing act between Modernism and Historicism. His work is accompanied by a […]
2nd International Conference of the VEAB Working Committee on Vernacular Architecture Text: Dénes Nagy The VEAB Working Committee on Folk Architecture was founded in 2011. The Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA) established Regional Academic Committees in Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs, Szeged and Veszprém, and then expanded them to include Cluj-Napoca. Shortly after its creation, in 2012, […]
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, […]
