Gábor Farkas architect’s album

Farkas Építésziroda, 2015, 416 page Sorry, this content is onlyavailable in Hungarian.

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 12 March – 29 May 2016 DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space presents the possibilities that the public has to shape its own city. The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and the real streets and squares are both locations for people’s demands as well as subject to their […]

Vízizrí – Workers’ Culture on the Banks of the Danube

Kassák Museum, 4 March – 5 June 2016 Modernisation, industrialisation and the move to the city significantly altered the fabric of Hungarian society at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The evolution of Budapest into a great city, the concentrated nature of industrial work and low-grade mass housing all radically changed the world […]

Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture for Sport

MAXXI, Rome, 5 Februray – 2 October 2016 This exhibition features a host of drawings, photographs, documents and models from over 60 projects for sports facilities, much of drawn from the Nervi Archive in the MAXXI Architettura collections. A unique opportunity to examine the development of the design and constructional methods of the engineer from […]

Public Buildings – Changing Aspects

Lectures and Discussion, FUGA, January 22nd, 2016 Text: Eszter Götz The Public Buildings Design Department of the Budapest University of Technology has commemorated its 70th anniversary. Head of the department, Mihály Balázs and his colleagues decided to celebrate it by defining its present position and trying to find its possible trends of the future instead […]

Freestyle or In a Responsible Way

Opinions on the Cancellation of Licensing the Construction of Detached Family Houses Text: Éva Tétényi A governmental decree came into effect at the end of December, 2015 with the ambition to simplify the licensing procedure of constructing detached family houses with an area of less than 300 m2. Written as apropos of this decree, this […]

Telluric power

The New St George’s Church in Józsa District, Debrecen Architect: Zoltán Győrffy Text: Tamás Meggyesi Photos: Zsolt Batár The newly built church primarily impresses the visitor via its gently proportionate mass and unique, homogeneous material qualities. The simple, acute-angled tent-roofed mass with a low parapet is harmoniously complemented by the structure of the belfry which […]

The Synthesis of Dignity

The Remodelling and Extension of the Clinic, Pécs Architects: Csikós Zoltán, Peity Attila Text: dr. Kiss Zsolt István Photos: Csikós Zoltán Suited to accommodate 400 patients, the clinic was a characteristic building of the University of Medicine in Pécs. Designed by Lajos Gádoros, it was opened in 1966 which was enriched with a significant extension […]

From train depot to a public space

Railway Station, Pécs Architect: Tibor Hajós Text: Mónika Pilkhoffer Photos: Tibor Zsitva It was a milestone for Pécs in 2010 that the city, being an European Culture Capital then, was given the chance to get enriched with several new cultural and infrastructural developments. An exception was the building of the railway station which had been […]

An Urban Structure Being Re-Evaluated

Southern Railway Station, Budapest Text: dr. Nagy Béla It did not take long for the world to recognize the significance of rail travel. Only appr. ten years after the opening of the Stockton – Darlington railway line, the law of 1836. XXV. was passed to start the construction of the railway routes between Pest-Buda and […]

Forged into one

Municipal Offices and Train Station, Delft Architects: Mecanoo Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Harry Cock, Mecanoo Six years after the original announcement of the project, the first phase of Mecanoo’s new Train Station and City Hall complex in Delft, has been opened to the public. The station, in combination with municipal offices and the new city […]

Lovely Playfulness

Bus Station, Szentgotthárd Architect: Géza Kendik Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The concept of the newly inaugurated bus terminal passenger lounge in Szentgotthárd was based on a clear formula faultlessly consistent from both a formal and a functional viewpoint. Designers had two inspiring points of reference to start from. The first one was an […]