The Rehab Scheme of Ligeti Mansion, Budapest Architect: Gábor Zombor Text: Éva Lovra Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The studio and holiday home of Miklós Ligeti sculptor was built in 1905–1906 after designs by architects Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor at the crossroads of Stefánia Road and Újlaki Street on a corner site. The mansion doubling as […]
Minor Market, Wekerle Housing Estate Architects: András Füzes, Péter Tóth DLA Text: Ferenc Salamin Photos: Zsófia Jurassza Completed in 2019, the Minor market has a history starting 12 years ago with an architectural tender on the iconic Wekerle housing estate then celebrating its 100th anniversary. The architects of the entries coming first have designed the […]
Kadarka Street Kindergarten, Budapest Text: Szilvia Molnár Architecture and photos: György Dénes At the beginning of the year, the sunny, modern Kadarka Street Kindergarten was handed over 100 children and 20 kindergarten workers in the garden-town part of the former Pesthidegkút called Széphalom. Not only did the area thrive with a new institution building, but […]
Dezső Gyarmati Swimming-Pool, Budapest Architects: Kis Péter, Varga Béla Text: Kiss Tamás Photos: Batár Zsolt The new swimming-pool named after Dezső Gyarmati offers the venue and chance to local city-dwellers to do everyday exercise, whilst also meeting the needs of competitive sportspeople. The facility has an indoor and outdoor pool as well, suited to host […]
Sports And Events Ship, Budapest Architects: Marcel Ferencz, György Détári Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The headquarters of the Hungarian Kayak and Canoe Association had been used for a long time as a boat house as well, with starting points to row along the waterfront Moszkva promenade. However, the latter were closed […]
The Revitalization of the Quay of Prague Architect: Petr Janda Text: Györg Szegő The city of Prague made a decision about the revitalization of the quay section named Naplavka located appr. 4 kilometres away from the “Dancing House” designed by Frank O. Gehry and his team in 1996 . The lower quay, formerly receiving ship […]
Debrecen University, Master Training Concept and text: Angéla Soltész, Tünde Zahari Consultants: Ferenc Keller, Péter Kovács DLA One of the half-term design tasks for the 2019 Master Training of Debrecen University was to plan the prison block of the city located in the south-eastern part of the Inner City, next to the Great Railway Station. […]
17th International Congress of Architects, March 6th Text: Orsolya Ware-Nagy Approximately 900 architects assembled on the large-scale event of professionals on March 6th 2020 in the conference hall of Puskás Aréna, Budapest. This year’s call – „Ép-ítés, Gyógyító építészet”, which roughly translates as Sound construction, healing architecture, allows a variety of interpretations. Both the invited lecturers […]
Sacred Spaces Conference, February 13th Text: Balázs Feledy The Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists organised a symposium acconmpanied by an exhibition in February 2020. The exhibition was visited by fine artists in general, and lectures were delivered by theoreticians, researchers, art historians, practitioning architects, interior designers, restorers, from both Hungary and Transsylvania. Issues […]
Four films shown on the 12th Architectural Films Day Text: Mária Tatai Photos: KÉK This March it is the 12th time that the Centre of Contemporary Architecture organized the Budapest Architectural Film Days titled Feelings the organizers of which started the inauguration greeting speech with this sentence: „The time has come now for us to […]
Text: Fanni Izabella Magyaróvári Owing to the very nature of their profession, architects genereally tend to take some work home, which has both advantages and disadvantages. We are hereby presenting some architects and applied artists who worked (also) from home, and there was the chance to take photographs of them to preserve these activities for […]
Éva Lovra: Cities in The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Urban Fabric and City Typology 1867-1918 Text: Tamás Meggyesi Maps are not only means of orientation, but also representations of our spatial awareness; this is one of the reasons why many architects have chosen this profession. This kind of magic fascinated Éva Lovra as well, who got her […]