Highrises in Budapest

Text: Imre Körmendy  The construction of tall buildings has almost always been an expression of power (travelling back in time as far as the interpretation of the Bible’s author, the symbol of Babel’s tower, whereby mankind ambitioned to surpass God). We know from the history from Italian town states that rich families competed to build the […]

MÉSZ in the 21st century

Discussion about the future of MÉSZ, Építészpince, January 2017 Text: Anna Zöldi, Bálint Botzheim  The new management of MÉSZ prioritizes its tasks so as to focus on being an authentic organisation of Hungarian architects which reacts sensitively to the changes of the profession and is able to revive itself from time to time. Ambitioned to […]

Symbiosis with the far neighbours

Chlorella Pavilion Concept: Ádám Miklósi Chlorella is an algae operated portable photo-bioreactor functions as an oxygen bar can be installed on public places. It uses the exhaled CO2 of the visitors and thanks to the photosynthesis it creates oxygen for them in a relaxing athmosphere. The project is inspired by the philosophy of symbiosis and […]

Peter Cook. Retrospective

Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin, 30 October 2016 – 12 February 2017 The exhibition Peter Cook. Retrospective is devoted to drawings by the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. Peter Cook is without doubt one of the leading figures of the Archigram group and in 2007 was knighted for his […]

Piranesi Award 2016

Exhibition in FUGA, Budapest, 25 January  – 13 February 2017 Text: Edit Pálinkás  56 projects were exposed at Piranesi exhibition 2016. 34 architectural projects were nominated by the national selectors from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia, and 22 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from Faculties of Architecture from […]

Iván Kotsis Medal 2016

Prize-giving ceremony Association of Hungarian Architects, 15 December 2016 Founded in 1989, the medal named after Iván Kotsis is actually a “fair play” prize awarded to Hungarian architects by the Association of Hungarian Architects year by year on December 15th, the birthday of its denominator based on nominations by a board of curators. At the […]

Breuer – at Home Again

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 8 December 2016 – 11 June 2017 Curators: Éva Horányi, Tamás Dévényi, Pál Ritoók Installation: Tamás Dévényi Thanks to the financial support of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank the conference table from the former furnishings of the New York office of the world-famous architect and furniture designer of Hungarian origin, Marcell […]

Rowing course finish line tower competition – presentations and discussion

Association of Hungarian Architects, Budapest, 28 February 2017 It is an old-new tradition of the Association of Hungarian Architects to provide an opportunity to present all the projects applied for the main architectural competitions in Hungary. On the first event of this long-term series of the association the applicants presented their work for the Rowing […]