The New Icon of Tirana

The design of the National Theatre of Albania Design: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Text: Eszter Götz Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has redesigned a replacement for the National Theatre of Albania that will include three indoor performance spaces, a rooftop amphitheatre and a public space underneath the building. The 9,300 sq m venue is located in […]

Northern Lights Room

International Competition, Island Concept: Norbert Pánovits, Orsolya Méhes, Zsuzsanna Köninger-Péter Iceland’s sky brings travelers from around the world to view the stars free of city lights, and to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis – these northern lights caused by solar winds fill the night sky with varying shades of green, red, and blue, […]

Prosthesis

Carrara Thermal Baths, ReThinking International Contest, 2nd Prize Concept and text: Arnold Tóth, Attila Páll Organised by reThinking, the Carrara Thermal Baths international concept contest targeted to provide new functions for the marble quarries in Carrara which had been exploited and then abandoned by people. A total of 105 project schemes have been submitted for […]

Balokány Baths Concept

Pécs, Balokány Concept: Gábor Kovács Balokány is a grove in downtown Pécs, the most extensive unbroken green zone of the city, which contains the artificial lake and the baths complex which has been out of use for several decades. The primary goal of the concept to revive the baths located in Balokány grove was a […]

Serpentine

Danube Museum and Conference Centre, Komárom Concept: Csémy Olivér, Csémy Krisztián The tip of Erzsébet island in Komárom is located in a site outstanding for both of the neighbouring countries, Hungary and the Slovak Republic. The design of the Danube Museum and Conference Centre is a response to this unique position. The centre unique along […]

Three-Stone Tourist Lodge

MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2017 Design: Brezina Zsolt Consultant: Keller Ferenc The primary aim of the scheme was to construct a tourist accommodation which is located in the heart of nature, far away from the noise and harmful impacts of man-made environment and can exist and maintain itself in a sustainable way. It partly functions as […]

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 […]

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 […]

Budapest Athletics Stadium

Results of the Design Contest Within the framework of Ferenc Kemény Programme, the Prioritized Governmental Investments Centre Non-Profit Co. published a contest in the spring of 2017 to construct a gap-filling municipal athletics centre which contains a central stadium, a covered hall, as well as open-air practise fields and tracks. 1st Prize: Marcel Ferencz DLA, […]

Design Contest for the New Budapest Velodrom

The aim of the design contest for the new Budapest Velodrom was published by the Hungarian government to design a closed velodrom able to perform a variety of functions simultaneously, in accordance with the relevant criteria of the national sports association that could be suitable on the regional level to host bicycle races, practices, trainings […]

Design Contest for the New Budapest Velodrom

The aim of the design contest for the new Budapest Velodrom was published by the Hungarian government to design a closed velodrom able to perform a variety of functions simultaneously, in accordance with the relevant criteria of the national sports association that could be suitable on the regional level to host bicycle races, practices, trainings […]