Adaptive City no.1

Rethinking Spaces of Retail: Skála Metró at Nyugati Square
14 – 17. November 2013.

Venue: 1053 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos utca 14-16.
Guest: Failed Architecture (Amsterdam)

Exhibition of András Krizsán

Exhibition of András Krizsán architect
Budapest Univesity of Technology and Economics
19 November – 3 December 2013
Opening: 19 November 2013, 2 p.m.
Opening speech by Balázs Balogh DLA

Conference on the Protection of Monuments

Opening conference of the ‘Heritage for the Future – Future for the Heritage’ Program organized by the ICOMOS Hungary, the HAP Office, the Artifex Publisher and the NKA.
14 November 2013
Conference venue: Podmaniczky Centre (1173 Budapest, Pesti út 115.)

Architecture – Hudec – Shanghai

Buildings by László Hudec Then and Now
Barabás Villa Gallery, Budapest, 12-30 November 2013
Opening: 12 November 2013, 6 p.m.
Opening speech by Katalin Marótzy PhD, architectural historian
Curator: Virág Csejdy

Exhibition of Zsolt Bajnay

Exhibition of Zsolt Bajnay architect
HAP Gallery, Budapest, 05. 11 – 13. 12. 2013

During the exhibition opening took place the prize-giving ceremony of Péter Molnár Prize. The Prize went to Tamás Lévai architect.

Millenáris Velodrom – competition

The “National Sport Centres” invites applications for a world-class design of a new Velodrome for the National Olympic Centre.

Deadline for the application: 16 December 2013
More information: www.mnsk.hu

Sopron, Synagogue in Paprét – competition

The aim of the brainstorming competition is to create new connections and functions around the synagogue according to the revitalization of the Castle District and to find the suitable function for the building itself with respect for its value.
The competition organized by the Government of Sopron, Hungary.

Architecture Media Awards 2013

Winners of the Architecture Media Awards 2013: Architecture Media Awards in Building category: Esterházy Palace, Fertőd – Event Center, Puppet Show, Orange House, Water Tower reconstruction – architect: Csaba Molnár; Architecture Media Awards in Design category: Utilization of the flood basin at Tivadar – Noémi Varga diploma work (MOME)

World Architecutre Day in the Architects’ House 2013

The first Monday of October is traditionally about architecture all over the world. The UIA, as the international association of architects schedulled the world day of the profession for this day. The Association of Hungarian Architects has organised a variety of programmes for this year on the occasion to celebrate World Architecture Day.

Power Beneath the Crust

Mining activities going on for fifty years in Kemenes resulted in huge scars on the crater and thus exposed the processes and layers of ancient volcanic activities creating a brand-new texture visually and geologically. This in fact inspired volcanologist Dr. Szabolcs Harangi to a large-scale innovative development for tourism simultaneously…

Global Locality

It is quite a while since I’ve been of the opinion that the way to understanding a work of art leads us through getting to know the circumstances of its creation as well as the personality of its author or artist rather than via a kind of comparative description and categorization of the art piece itself. As a result of his Erasmus activities in Oulu…

Green ToolBar

The Green House integrates into the series of green office blocks built recently that do not feature yet the whole toolbar of sustainable architecture and are only modestly innovative: they were designed to include just as much as needed in order to be rated as top-end real estates in the market and only what is profitable PR-wise.