Pro Architectura Award 2021

To continue the traditions of the past few years, Pro Architectura award contest was published again in 2021. The goal has been unchanged: to promote outstanding achievements of architects and designers in architecture, landscape art and interior design, to make Hungarian architecture better known, to encourage the creation of high-standard man-made environment, to protect architectural […]

Budapest Architecture Merit Awards 2021

Each year Budapest Architecture Merit Award is awarded on November 15th, the birthday of the capital city to recognize the maintenance, upkeeping and development of the man-made heritage of Budapest based on values with the criteria that works are unique in their harmony with nature and landscape. Due to the pandemic, this year the awards […]

Media Architecture Prize 2021

On November 6th it was the 17th time to award the current year’s outstanding works of architecture with the Media Architecture Prize at the ceremony held in Uránia National Movie Theatre. Founded by Építészfórum, is now a professionals’ event with a past of 17 years, which is unique in the sense that the jury evaluates […]

Hungarian Architecture 2010–2020

MÉK, 2021, 494 pages Text: György Szegő The Chamber of Hungarian Architects surveys the best works of Hungarian architecture in the past decade in this thick bilingual volume. Editor Eszter Dénes, graphic artist András Vizvárdi and the members of the editorial board launched a new series with this publication. This selection offers novelties even for […]

A Slice of Sport

V. 30 Downtown Sports Centre, Budapest Architect: György Skardelli Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: György Palkó Opened and inaugurated in the summer of 2021, V 30 Downtown Sports Centre is centrally located, and the faculties of the site and the property as well as the projected sports centre to be built had seriously challenging expectations. Rated […]

Polygonizing a Rectangle

Sports Hall, Szentendre Architect: Sándor Jassó Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Abigél Riesz The original aim of the project was to design and construct a new sports hall for the Franciscan secondary school in Szentendre which is suited for sports, religious and ceremonial events of the school and can also be used as the venue for […]

Shifts

Centre of the Calvinist Congregation, Budaörs Architect: Zoltán Berzsák Text: György Major Photos: József Hajdú Budaörs was a village of 6,000 Catholic Swabians back in the early-20th century. Today it is a town with 30,000 residents of heterogenuous religious and cultural background. A unique feature of the historic centre is a section of the main […]