Rabbi House, Mád Architect: Zsolt Szécsi Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Tokaj-Hegyalja is a region hiding cultural treasures of several centuries. Villages in this area have images closely intertwined with traditional viticulture and winemaking. This culture evolving from these landscape features and facilities has defined the everyday lives, arts and the character of the […]
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Within a Rational Framework
Portus Home Guesthouse, Dörgicse Architect: Barna Kovács D. Text: Tímea Papp Photos: Tamás Bata Portus Home Guesthouse was completed at the beginning of summer in Kisdörgicse, which is probably the tiniest village of the region north of Lake Balaton. Its owners started this project with the intention to create a place for recreation where visitors […]
A Message Understood
The Reconstruction of the Railway Station, Keszthely Architect: Szilvia Flachner Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Szilvia Flachner The building of the railway station in Keszthely is typical of the early 1960s representing everything that could have happened to a structure with such a past. From beneath the layers continuously settling on it, it hardly gets exposed […]
„It rings a bit in its dream”
Tram Garage, Budafok Architect: Ákos Takács Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Áron Lality Between 1899 and 1911 the industrial complex originally built for the Suburban Electric Railway of Budapest-Budafok was completely demolished with the exception of two blocks. The structure of the surviving tram garage in Budafok has further deteriorated during random extensions throughout the decades […]
Paradise Found
Artists’ Houses, Sørvær, Norway Architect: Sami Rintala Text and photos: Anett Mizsei Near the Arctic Circle, the northernmost line of the Norwegian railway network also comes to an end. The last station is a town called Bodø,from where one can travel only by plane or ship. This is where Sami Rintala, a Finnish-born architect settled […]
To Preserve and Move On
The Reconstruction of the Community House of Hungarian Calvinists in Košice, Slovakia Architect: János Krcho Text: Péter Pásztor Photos: János Krcho On the site next to the parsonage of the Calvinist church, but closer to the Calvinist church than the parish itself, there is a residential building of medieval origins. The real estate is possessed […]
Meder Restaurant and Vegetable Garden
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award, 2017 Design: Júlia Aleksić Consultant: Bea Molnár The topic of this diploma design was the responsibility of designers and consumers in the 21st century, and more precisely, that of gastronomy and the gastro-revolution. The essence of the concept is a restaurant functioning as a closed chain, in which the most significant component […]
Mill-Music House, Székesfehérvár
MÉSZ–MÉK Diploma Award, 2017 Design: László Rentka Consultant: Béla Pazár Székesfehérvár is a city with the authorities and rights of a county. The project described here is a site north of the Inner City, in the Upper City, and the structures are parts of a complex of historic buildings in Sörház – the remains of […]
World Day of Architecture in AHA
Association of Hungarian Architects October 2nd, 2017 The UIA, that is the International Association of Architects proclaimed the first Monday of October to be the World Day of Architects to draw attention to architecture which has the potentials to modify the environment of people in a formative way. MÉSZ, the Association of Hungarian Architects celebrated […]
Liberty Bridge – New Urban Horizons
16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Competition for Hungarian exhibition “Liberty Bridge new urban horizons” is the name of the progressive project that’s set to turn heads during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition happening from May 26th through November 25th in Venice. Demonstrating an urban community event (when the bridge became a scene for impromptu summertime […]
Soul of Seoul
The UIA Congress and its XXVIIth General Assembly Seoul, Korea, 3-10 September 2017 This year it was Seoul that hosted the Congress of UIA which is the primary international forum for the professionals of architecture today. Its slogan was „Soul of City”, which is a kind of a word pun as well. Taking place every […]
The Mill on the Old Lake Regional Camp and Eco-Centre, Veresegyház
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2017 Concept: Mercédesz Erika Nagy The site for design is located near the northern shores of the Old Lake, at the mouth of Sződrákosi spring which feeds the nearby lakes. The dyke of the former mill made of concrete and one of its longitudinal walls with the original place of the wheels […]