I obsessedly believe that a meaningful and safe future for Budapest is only guaranteed if it can evolve into the cultural (and as a result actually a touristic) centre of Central Europe. Its position is excellent for this perspective, being the meeting point of northern-southern, eastern-western corridors of traffic and transport…

The designing process is a kind of communication in itself. It is an imaginative internal exchange of ideas of the creator, a dialogue of ideas and form concept formulating and discarded, developed and enhanced. There is communication between the mind and the hand drawing designs. The exterior of communication starts with the definition of the task, together with the client, and takes place in a variety of social terrains.

Acting as the patron of museums, the Spanish royal family and the Ministry of Culture as maintainer decided to extend Prado. In 1995 a total of 700 designs concerning the concept were submitted for the open international tender inviting designs for the concept. The winner, Rafael Moneo was commissioned to design in 1998.

Tadao Ando, a most significant and original Japanese architect at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries is one of the earliest representatives of a unique architectural approach and reflection continuing the traditions of Japanese architecture in its modern reinterpretation, in a synthesis with the western tradition.

There is a new office block towering on Könyves Kálmán Boulevard, between the bus terminal in Népliget and the railway flyover of M5 motorway. The identity of this area is undergoing a radical change right now, with surviving old constituents and a series of new office blocks and retail houses appearing precariously so far. Népliget Center Office Block sits on its site as if it had been there for ages.

Regarding the city as a cultural web, the New Maribor Art Gallery can be considered as a neuron, in which the cultural nervous system of the city coagulates. Three characteristic elements define this place within the urban texture. On one hand the river bank of the Dráva and so the presence of water featuring the natural environment.

The first phase of the New Main Street of Budapest Project has been completed by finalizing the designs for the area between Kálvin Square and Szabadság Square, resulting in a northern-southern axis redefined both functionally and traffic-wise. By banning transit transport and thus decreasing traffic here, a liveable urban environment has been created with streets…

Looking into the future from today’s Paris, the exhibition titled Roma, Uneternal City presents new perspecives of the development of tomorrow’s European capitals. Managed by Aaron Betsky architect-critic, the manager of Cincinnatti Art Museum, twelve international groups contributed to a lively discussion on issues concerning not only Rome, such as the increase of its population and the expansion of its area…

The Association of Hungarian Architects is inviting tenders of students, as well as DLA and sudents from every higher educational institution in Hungary majoring and/or specialized in architecture, landscape design, resettlement engineers, industrial and product design in a nationwide open and secret competition.

This spring the creative days organized by the workshop group within Sopron-based AMI focussed on issues of land art. The majority of participants were students with AMI, but they also arrived from Budapest Technical University, the Hungarian University of Art and MOME. The first two days of the three-day programme were those of lectures, whilst on the third day work was done in the forest.

The Hungarian National Gallery published an open design tender for students professionally assisted by the Department of Public Design (Faculty of Architecture, Budapest of Technology and Economics) inviting designs for the entrance of Building „A” and its surroundings including their architectural reconstruction and interior design.

The revolution of hygiene reached Székesfehérvár in 1905, and the last day of the year saw the inauguration of the medical bath based on local spring water. Designed by Jenő Hübner, the Art Nouveau-style Árpád Baths was extended with a hotel in the 1920s from the direction of Várkörút and after World War II a 25-metre swimming-pool also completed the complex.