The Facelifting of the Promenade in Veszprém

Architect: Zsolt György Kovács, Jana Beránková, Dávid Kovács, Márton Becker, Péter Lukács
Text: Vilmos Katona
Photos: Dávid Kovács

The rehabilitation project of public areas in the inner city of Veszprém is inseparable from the transformation trends starting in the 1970s. Designers had to face a heritage of modernism: the lack of streets. The pavement has the capacity to preserve tendencies, routes and coherences, draw new borderlines whilst being part of ornamentation, its “vocabulary”, “grammatical structure”. With a double ramp as its follow-up, the promenade has made best use of these faculties. Granite flagstones alternate with light and dark grey concrete pavement, their intervals revealing refined traceries. The most exciting part of the whole composition is the central area for events. The junction outside Bástya Department Store features the information pavilion for tourists, a playground for children in the arch of Kinizsi Shopping Centre out of the winds, and a public lavatory. These structures of humane scale and temporary character rank as significant stop-gaps in Veszprém. The result, all in all, heralds a more care-free period.

Architects: Zsolt György Kovács, Jana Beránková, Dávid Kovács, Márton Becker, Péter Lukács
Client: Veszprém Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata
Concept: Veszprémi Építész Műhely Bt.
Main contractor: Főmterv Zrt.
Architects: Márton Becker, Péter Lukács – Speos Kft., Zsolt György Kovács, Jana Beránková, Dávid Kovács – Veszprémi Építész Műhely Bt.
Roads: Kinga Tóth
Structure: Gábor Huszka
Landscape: Dr. Albert Fekete
Public utilities: László Tuboly
Rehabilitation: Ágota Ruttkay

Belvárosi üzletház felújítása és bővítése
Original design: István Márton
Architecture: Veszprémi Építész Műhely Bt.
Architects: Zsolt György Kovács, Jana Beránková, Dávid Kovács