Summer Resort, Balatonszárszó Architects: Katalin Fazekas, Árpád Vilics Text: Levente Szabó Photos: Tamás Szentirmai This building in Balatonszárszó by Katalin Fazekas and Árpád Vilics cannot be regarded in a different way than a peaceful and calm manifestation of natural unity, that is the integral approach to exteriors and interiors, architectural statements and materials, as well […]
Aktuális lapszám
Sunroof
Farmers and Fish Market, Vodice, Slovenia Architect: Dinko Peračić Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Platforma 9,81 In Piran Architecture Days, Vodice Farmers and Fish Market project created by Dinko Peračić, won the top Piranesi award. The structure is a representation of successful urban and social reconstruction. Given that Vodice are a tourist destination, the project respects […]
Architecture at the edge of Hungary
Communal Fruit Processing Plant, Markóc Concept, archtiecture and text: Veronika Holczer Photos: Sári Ember, Veronika Holczer The first version of the scheme was made as a diploma work back in 2011. My ambition as a designer then was to spend a longer period in a poor village, take part in local life, and work out […]
Sacre Coeur Nunnery
Architectural competition – 1st Prize Concept and text: Robert Gutowski The building standing in the palatial quarter of Józsefváros, a district of Budapest, was returned to the Sacré Coeur order of nuns after the change of the political system. The enterprise of the order specialised in the utilisation of real estates named Sophianum Nonprofit Ltd. […]
Gourmet Street Food pavilion
[AC-CA]™ Architectural Competition – 1st Prize Design: Huba Ferenczi, Dániel Silló, Ivett Redenczki, Dániel Pataki The Hungarian design team of four architects working in Budapest and Berlin won the first prize of the [AC-CA]™ Berlin Gourmet Street Food architectural competition. The aim was to create a food stand that is universal in its function and […]
Josef Frank: Against design
MAK, Vienna, 16 December 2015 – 12 June 2016 Josef Frank (born in 1885 in the town of Baden near Vienna) is not only one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century, but also, with his designs for textiles and furniture, one of the modernist designers whose influence continues to be felt […]
Gábor Dénes Award 2015
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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 […]