The transformation of MOME Campus Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Hlinka The comprehensive reconstruction of the Campus of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has reached its resting point. The large-scale project was launched in the wake of a governmental decree in 2014: a tender was published to invite […]
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An Open Book
József Attila Public Library, Makó Architects: Imre Makovecz†, Judit Szente-Vargáné Gerencsér Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zsófia Kedves, Tibor Zsitva The building opened as the home of the public library in Makó 1971 had deteriorated hazardously by 2007. The first sketches for its reconstruction were made by DezsÅ‘ Ekler in 1997. Back in those days the […]
Market, Ecomony
Market Hall, NagykÅ‘rös Architects: Irén Járomi, Gyula Kiss Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: György Palkó NagykÅ‘rös is a traditionally agricultural and commercial centre with a monthly market which is a major forum for regional trade. The preservation of traditions is a prioritized mission of the town. In order to allow the market to throb like the […]
Danube Riverbank Awakening
Pesterzsébet Open-air Baths ÉpÃtészek: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus, Bence László Dobos, Zsolt Nagy Szöveg: Zoltán Dragon Fotók: József Hajdú The baths complex was founded in Pesterzsébet in 1924, almost at the peak season of such facilities in Budapest. The model, which it was designed after, as well as a point of reference for it was […]
A Competitive Alternative
Solar Decathlon 2019, Szentendre Text: Krisztián Dudics Photos: Képkocka / Gergely Potyondi, Solar Decathlon In 2002 a contest for universities and the construction industry was launched on the initiative of the government titled Solar Decathlon to encourage designs and the construction of modern exemplary residential buildings that offer innovative, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable alternatives based on […]
EXPO 2019 at the Foot of the Great Chinese Wall
Gardening World Exhibition, Beijing, 29 April – 7 October 2019 Text and photos: Pál LÅ‘vei Some 74 km from the centre of Beijing, the most frequented part of the great wall in Badaling is backed by a basin of Yanqing Hills where an international gardening exhibition was opened covering the largest area in the history […]
Generative Paper Lantern
Plasencia Auditorium and Conference Centre, Murcia, Spain Architects: Jose Selgas, Lucia Cano Text: Levente Gyulai, Vilmos Katona Photos: Iwan Baan Designed by Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano, Plasencia conference centre and auditorium is located in Murcia, Spain, on the outskirts of Cartagena. Although SelgasCano architects won the tender back in 2005, the complex with a […]
Creative Space Utilization
Architectural and social aspects Text: Laura Takács, Dr. Tamás Fejérdy One of the goals of redesigning historic spaces is to make cooperation easier, create communities and initiate spontaneous meetings. This kind of space design is not only targeted to meet a certain type of direct functional needs, but also to reframe communal and social life […]
Creative Vienna
Space and Experience – Vienna Biennale 2019 MAK, Vienna, 29 May – 26 October 2019 Text: György SzegÅ‘ Photos: MAK, Júlia SzegÅ‘ Vienna has been evolving as a megapolis for 70 years now – accompanied by every beauty and trouble of changes –, whilst it has been able to preserve the rural grace of the […]
Swallows’ Visitors’ Centre
Diploma Design, SZIE Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture, MSC, 2019 Concept and text: Bence Péter Tóth The handshake of vernacular and contemporary architecture is the plan for me. The brick, earth and adobe architecture, thatching and whitewashed walls naturally co-operated with nature. I slid this house onto the shore of the quarry pond of the […]
COVER /// AGE – 2nd National Salon of Architecture
Kunsthalle, Budapest, 26 April – 25 August 2019 Photos: Műcsarnok, Béla Ilovszky / theater.hu In the last five years the Műcsarnok has served as the venue for the National Salons, which have attracted significant interest from professional circles and the lay audience alike. Every year the fresh achievements of another genre are presented. In 2019 […]
Light Architecture
Kunsthalle, Budapest, 5 July – 25 August, 2019 Photo: Zsolt Hlinka The installation visualises the conception of architectural form abstractly, in a special light matrix. Thanks to the semi-virtual display, the movement of space can be perceived and the successive metamorphoses of the spaces can also be understood: visitors can experience symbolically and physically the […]