Focussed Attention

SPAR Supermarket, Budapest, MOM Park Architetcs: Linda Erdélyi, András Dobos, Balázs Korényi, Virág Anna Gáspár Text: Rózsa Csavarga Photos: Zsolt Batár The shop of SPAR housed in the basement of MOM Park attracts attention with its style. Designers created transparent interiors furnished with systems of counters with island-like design structured with colours of an economical […]

Playful Logistics

DHL Centre, Ferihegy Architects: Béla Bánáti, Gabriella Hoffman, Zoltán Nyirati Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Zoltán Vass Budapest Airport published an invitational tender in February, 2010 to utilize three unused areas of Liszt Ferenc Airport by integrating business, commercial and logistic functions. The would-be business park with its commercial functions will be made a genuinely humane […]

Expo Milan 2015 Hungarian Pavilion

Expo Milan 2015 Hungarian Pavilion Result of the Spectacle Concept Contest, January 2014 Mill – First-Prize Project by Tamás Getto and Ákos Hutter Beyond interpreting the ancient symbol – mill, wheat, bread –, the Hungarian Pavilion also suits its modern readings perceptible in people’s everyday life. The mill simultaneously symbolizes the „Blue Economy”, the goal […]

Bird-house Facing the Sun

The Bustard Sanctuary in Mokrin Architect: Vilmos Tóth Text: Anna Pecze Photos: Vilmos Tóth Each natural energy source is a unique phenomenon in its kind, but none of them is such an unparallelled one as the Bustard sanctuary in Mokrin. Situated in the vicinity of the village, the building housing the visitors’ centre doubles as […]

Renewed Organic Modern

St. Anne’s Chapel, Torre del Lago Architect: Paolo Galantini Text: György Szegő Photos: Paolo Del Freo Galantini Studio renovated a timber structure chapel built in the 1970s in Northwest Italy, up in the mountains above Lake Garda to suit it as a venue for summer masses, music programmes and theatre performances for both the building […]

Pure Elegance

Renaissance Castle, Egervár Architects: Zsuzsa Csángó, László Földes, Balázs Szlabey, Ágnes Vértesy Text: Ferenc Agg Photos: Csaba Jászai, János László In the valley of Sárvíz, north of Zalaegerszeg, the castle of Egervár once belonged to Vas county. Built in a predominantly Renaissance style, it has integrated a variety of periods, forms and functions throughout its […]

West Bund 2013

Biannual of Architecture and Contemporary Arts Shanghai, October-November, 2013 Text: András Borsos The banks of River Huangpu is a most characteristic part of Shanghai inhabited by 24 millions of people, including the Bund complex, an iconic development of the inner city built in the early 20th century, the quarter named Pudong with its 21st-century skyscrapers […]