Housing Oxygen Wellness Centre, there is a new structure alongside with the recently facelifted Rácz baths. This area of Tabán has been redeveloped this way but without the „Grinzing-like”atmosphere of the past: instead it is home to a large number of services for new social layers with higher salaries. Businessmen are the target group of the VIP section of Rácz baths and…
There used to be manors in every significant village of the Káli Basin thus each of them had one or more economic unit of its own. These complexes were typically built on the outskirts of the villages although some of them were moved to a neighbourhood of residential buildings. László Vincze architect was fascinated by the beauties of the landscape and this meant…
Walking along the main street of Mád, a former market town of Hegyalja region one does hardly recognize at first sight the gables of the contemporary buildings of Royal Winery rising above the roofs of houses with historic atmosphere. However, they open up powerfully and impressively when we approach them across the narrow yard surrounded by…
House over house, city over city, new construction type
Ten years after the death of one of the most significant and controversial Czechoslovakian architects the CCEA in cooperation with the National Museum present the public with his project of the seat of the Federal Assembly as well as his interest in macrostructures.
Finnagora, the culture and science institute of Finland in Budapest and Hungarian architecture and design magazine hg.hu is pleased to announce the launch of a competition for Hungarian and Finnish students to design a public art piece with the innovative and creative use of wood.
Submission deadline: 25 March 2011
The Possibities of Budapest in the Danube Strategy
Value-based Urban Development
Conference
24th February 2011. FUGA, Budapest
Innovative design inspired by nature in an urban context. The trustees of this exhibition made their selection of works by contemporary artists, architects and landscape architects. The designers of works presented here focussed on the alternative reutilization of slumming urban and industrial zones. The utopistic visions of this review rely upon the symbiosis of nature and culture…
William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist’s work, opened at the Albertina October 29th, 2010. Featuring more than 60 works in a range of media – including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures – the exhibition is co-organized by SFMOMA and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
5th March 2011.
Piarista Rendezvényterem
1052 Budapest, Pesti Barnabás utca 1.
Changing Society – Changing Heritage Conversation?
Conference organised by the Hungarian National Committee of ICOMOS, the Committe on Art History of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts.
1-2. March 2011, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Osiris
Budapest City Archives
2010
Pécs Cyclopaedia I.-II.
Pécs Lexikon Kulturális Nonprofit Kft.
2010.