The Workshop and Rehearsal Centre of the Hungarian State Opera, Budapest Concept and text: Miklós Marosi The State Opera House celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2014. The building it is housed in today has no capacity to suit all the functions it should as the complex is actually made up of two ensembles with an […]
Aktuális lapszám
Concept Tender on the Rehabilitation of the Museum Gardens
Scheme by TÉR-TEAM Ltd, First Prize Concept and text: Gábor Szabó, András Szende, Kristóf Attila Juhász The primary goal of the tender was to reconstruct the landscape and revive the existing flora, whilst enriching the ecological and utilization functions of the Museum Gardens in line with the designs made by Ármin Petz in the 1850s. […]
Prague Castle & Plečnik
Architektur im Ringturm, Vienna, 27. 06. – 23. 09. 2016 Prague Castle is one of the world’s largest preserved castle complexes, and is a symbol of the Czech Republic’s sense of national pride. To accompany this year’s artistic covering of the Ringturm designed by Czech artist Ivan Exner, the Architektur im Ringturm series will focus […]
Four days
Report on the Slovakian trip of the Hungarian Academy of Arts – Section of Architecture After a polish and transilvaian trip the Section of Architecture of the Hungarian Academy of Arts held their assembly in Kosice within a four day long trip in the neighborhood. The trip organized by Péter Pásztor contained many of architectural, […]
Hungarian Design Award 2016
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 24. 09. – 20. 11. 2016 „The objective of the Hungarian Design Award announced by the Minister for National Economy is to showcase the achievements of Hungarian design and to promote the competitiveness of Hungarian products.” The Hungarian Design Award is announced by the Hungarian Design Council on behalf of […]
Elytra Filament Pavilion
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 18. 05 – 06. 11. 2016 Elytra Filament Pavilion has been created by experimental German architect Achim Menges with Moritz Dörstelmann, structural engineer Jan Knippers and climate engineer Thomas Auer. Menges and Knippers are leaders of research institutes at the University of Stuttgart that are pioneering the integration of biomimicry, […]
The new chairman of MÉSZ
András Krizsán DLA The Association of Hungarian Architects (Magyar Építőművészek Szövetsége, MÉSZ) elected András Krizsán as its new chairman at the general assembly of the organisation on June 6th, 2016. The new vice chairmen to support his activities are György Kerekes, János Golda and Gábor Zoboki, whilst new members of the management are Csaba Kovács, […]
15th Venice Biennale of Architecture II.
The International Participation Text: György Szegő Photos: Hanna Szegő In our previous issue (2015/3) we have already presented the Hungarian exhibition at the recently opened –Venice Biennale. As we wrote there and then, the national pavilions do not follow the central slogan or they focus on it in an indirect way, which is yet another […]
Liget Project Landscape Design Contest
A Survey of the Winning Schemes Városliget Zrt. published a design contest calling for landscape designs in January, 2016 for the City Park, Budapest, which is to be developed in a comprehensive way, being the very first public park of Europe. Schemes are expected to present values of the area for garden history, as well […]
Light Axis
On the Life, Death and Art of György Csete (1937–2016) Text: Miklós Sulyok Fotó: Zsitva Tibor György Csete had a basic principle on architecture which is best summed up as architecture in Hungarian. To use Hungarian language in architecture instead of foreign ones. His architecture, however, was filled with universal contents: however, it was his […]
The Focal Point Found
Digital Power Plant and National Film History Theme Park, Ózd Architect: Györgyi Csontos Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Ózd, which used to be an industrial centre based on metallurgy back in the Socialist era, had ultimately demolished its factory plant simultaneously with the change of the political system in 1990 when there was a […]
Handing Down Knowledge at the Highest Level
Almásy Mansion, Visitors’ Centre, Gyula Architects: László Földes, Csaba Balogh Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The very first building of the mansion in Gyula was built by János György Harruckern, who was given the area as a reward for his services to King Charles III of Hungary after the withdrawal of the Turkish conquerors […]