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On Hungarian Architecture Day, the Minister of Construction and Transport presented the Károly Kós Oeuvre Achievement Award, the Miklós Ybl Award, the Pro Architectura Award, the Mihály Mőcsényi Award, the Gyula Forster Award, the István Schönvisner Award, and certificates of recognition in the Ceremonial Hall of the Pesti Vigadó. Our Hungarian Architecture Day, which pays […]
Established in 2003, the Prima Primissima Award aims to preserve the intellectual achievements of Hungarian intellectuals and to promote the development of domestic science, art, culture, and sports by awarding a prestigious title that is independent of power and politics and presents unquestionable values in the eyes of the public. In the category of Hungarian […]
On December 4th, 2025, the Budapest Architecture Award was presented at FUGA Centre of Architecture. For three decades now, the prestigious award has been jointly announced and judged by the Municipality of Budapest and the Budapest Chamber of Architects, highlighting architectural works that define and shape the image of the capital city. The aim of […]
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Mini-crèche, Budapest, Naphegy Architect: Balázs Csóka Text: Kristóf Mánya Photos: Krisztina Bélavári, Balázs Zajti For several centuries, Budapest’s Naphegy and Krisztinaváros districts — both wedged between Buda Castle and the Hillside — functioned as the “back gardens” of Hungarian history. Although the fragmented building patterns and detached blocks floating on wooded and landscaped plots create […]
Mini-nursery, Tatabánya-Felsőgalla Architects: László Román, Zsuzsanna Nagy Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Dorka Gyepes Public education buildings are a remarkably successful area of contemporary Hungarian architecture, with kindergartens and nurseries leading the way and winning awards one after another. The reason for this may lie in the design programme: despite the relatively small scales and proportions, […]
Fügefa Lutheran Kindergarten, Kelenföld Architects: Árpád Szabó, Balázs Vizer Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Fenes The Lutheran community in the capital city had long felt the painful absence of kindergartens in Buda, as there used to be several in Pest, but none in Buda since World War II. Under an agreement reached in 2020, the […]
Gyöngyszem Branch Kindergarten, Budapest Architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus Text: Zita Pelle Photos: Balázs Danyi The reconstruction project of the Gyöngyszem Branch Kindergarten in Budapest’s 13th district goes far beyond a local institutional renovation: the project has become a European-level model for the contemporary recycling as well as a sustainable transformation of five-decade-old prefab structures. […]
Text: Pál Makovecz Shortly after Imre Makovecz’s death, in early 2012, the Imre Makovecz Foundation was established to manage his heritage. In addition to family members, colleagues, students, and friends of Imre Makovecz hold and have held positions in this foundation. Meanwhile, Imre Makovecz’s heirs decided to offer the architect’s own house, which he did […]
Text: Gábor Kampis When the Imre Makovecz Foundation started their work, they set themselves the goal of creating a digital database that would contain, organize, and thus make searchable all of Imre Makovecz’s plans, graphic works, writings, and objects that could be found and were available in the Archive, as well as audio and video […]
Text: Gábor Mezei In the mid-1960s, interior designer Gábor Mezei met Imre Makovecz while working as a designer for SZÖTERV, and was deeply impressed by his approach to style. Following Makovecz’s example, he also rebelled against the monotony and dullness of modernist industrial architecture and began to design in his own unique style. With his […]
Text: Benjamin Makovecz In his poetically beautiful writing, Benjamin Makovecz attempts to describe the slowly unfolding and ever increasingly intimate relationship between father and son from the early 1960s until 2011, the year of Imre Makovecz’s death. The writer’s perspective is that of a „young boy from Pest”, and the tone of his writing is […]
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, […]
