Although the values of contemporary architecture tend to remain invisible or alien to the wide public, the office block in Medve Street is sure to attract the attention of passers-by. This pile of container-size glass boxes probably reminds the non-professionals of children’s toys made of lego or wooden bricks rather than of any work of contemporary…
Blue Planet, the largest aquarium of Denmark was completed this March. Its architectural design is based on a symbol, but goes far beyond this: presented as a form of a whirlpool, it also expresses the complex systen of correlations between 21st-century civilisation and water. 3XN, a Danish team of architects made a design of a spiral shaping…
The building housing Tea-House now used to be a pub as well as a residential building later on functioning as a school and a culture centre. As even rabbits were kept and mushrooms were grown here, the building underwent utmost deterioration. The local community decided to salvage the building. This complex development involves…
Along the stairs that wind up Castle Hill in Buda, there is a small residential building standing in ruins for a long time. The local government of the Buda Castle District worked out a reconstruction project for this protected historic monument after several years’ preparation and thorough research as for the protection of listed buildings…
Louis Kahn started working on the designs of the New York-based park devoted to the memory of President Roosevelt about forty years ago. A year later he died, and thus the concept remained in blueprint and unfinished. Finally, the foundation stone was laid in 2010 and the Four Freedoms Park was inaugurated in October, 2012…
A real gem of wineries owned by Hungarians in the Hegyalja region, Holdvölgy in Mád designed by Péter Bordás is to be completed to its tiniest details by next March. Bord Architects Studio integrated local building materials and revived economical architectural traditions with due attention to the technologically precisely regulated spaces…
Inaugurated this year, it is promoted on the worldwide net with this slogan: „the first museum ever along the Italian highways”. It has a single unsurpassable architectural prototype: the first highway-church, which is a fantastic organic-Modernist architecture by Giovanni Michelucci along Autostrada del Sole (1964). This latter building…
In 2012 two large-scale projects were realised after designs by Toya Design architects in Poznań. Both deal with the protection and salvation of architectural heritages as well as with their adaptation to meet functional demands and the expectations of recipients. Whilst remodelling ZAMEK Culture Centre the Revivalist Romanesque-style…
Spectacular structures such as the European Central Bank in Frankfurt/Main, the Rolex Learning Center at the E´cole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) in Lausanne, and the new Louvre Museum in the French town of Lens would not be possible without the engineers “behind the scenes”. Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann…
The exhibition offers a fresh point of view of the work of this great modern architect; the curator, architect Nicola Di Battista, has chosen to examine Libera’s work through the selection of some of his most significant projects. Surprisingly little-known, the aim is revise the interpretation of the processes forming his style.
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) is world famous to this day as a painter of exceptional portraits and history paintings. Yet there was another subject that also preoccupied him throughout his career: landscape. The Dutch painter addressed himself to this theme not so much in painting, but all the more intensively…
Lakatlan aims at finding solutions to the emerging problem of vacant properties in our cities. We investigate causes and look for answers: with the help of international and local experts, and in the frame of workshops, lectures, discussions, we examine a diversity approaches, methods and best practices. This website operates as…