Base4Work, Bratislava Architecture, interiors: DF Creative Group, Studio Perspektiv Text: György Szegő Photos: BoysPlayNice There are only a few buildings with industrial history left in Bratislava that have managed to adapt to the current needs. One of them is functionalist building of Dusan Jurkovič’s Heating Plant, which has been opened to the public after a […]

The House of Music, Hungary, Budapest Architect: Sou Fujimoto Text: György Szegő Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Out of the 168 entries submitted for the international contest for the designs of the House of Music the one now actually realized excelled with its philosophy eliminating the borders between the natural and artificial environment. The Budapest project had […]

Bárányfelhő Calvinist Kindergarten, Budapest Architects: Krisztián Olbert, Ádám Lendvay, Géza Bujdosó Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: József Hajdú The Calvinist Congregation of Svábhegy have been planning to have their own kindergarten built since 2015, which was actually constructed by integrating sites next to the church and parish. The architectural concept of Bárányfelhő („Cirrocumulus”) Calvinist Kindergarten was […]

IN-Budapest Students’ Apartment Block Architect: Bence Turányi Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Batár The first stage of the rehab of a 122-year-old block has been completed in Rottenbiller Street: a multi-storey industrial building in the courtile has been converted into a contemporary apartment hotel. The history of the real estate goes back to the 1870s, […]

Benczúr 11 Office and Residential Block, Budapest Architects: Péter Nagy, Tamás Németh Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Réthey-Prikkel One of the greatest values of Budapest is its integral revivalist style cityscape coupled with a varied structure and fabric. More often than not, these values, however, are also serious challenges for contemporary architects that impose limitations […]

Residential Bulding, Budapest, Ferencváros Architects: Tibor Dékány, Ádám Hatvani Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Zsolt Hlinka A few years ago a two-storey house built in Ferencváros (Budapest) in 1860 with a character in the revivalist Classical style was demolished to be replaced by a 8 storey residential building containing 78 units, a 3-storey underground car park […]

A15 Mansion, Budapest Architects: Katalin Fazekas, Árpád Vilics Text: Péter Kronavetter Photos: Balázs Danyi With special attention to details and high standards, Kettőpera („2/a”) Stúdió designed a mansion located in the Buda Hills as a stylish and yet casual and sophisticated structure impressing us as if we were looking at icons of bygone times in […]

The Reconstruction of the Zeleméry-Rákóczi Castle, Borsi Architects: Péter Pásztor, Zoltán Wittinger Text and photos: József Sebestyén Located in Borsi in Sovakia, near Sátoraljaújhely, there is the Zeleméry-Rákóczi Castle built from the 1560s on, which has had lots of owners during its history. Its most famous resident, Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II was born in this […]

Expo 2020 Dubai, 2021–2022 Text and photos: Pál Lővei Scheduled for the winter of 2020/2021, and referred to as the Expo2020 ever since, this exhibition had to be postponed a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is undoubtedly the best organised and integrated and, besides that of Seville, also the highest-ranking category of the […]

Neue Galerie, Wiener Neustadt, Austria Architects: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović Text: Eszter Götz Photos: David Schreyer The project is a result of a competition held in 2016 that set the task of making the casemates, an ammunition storage structure of the medieval fortress accessible to the general public in the form of a new […]

V. 30 Downtown Sports Centre, Budapest Architect: György Skardelli Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: György Palkó Opened and inaugurated in the summer of 2021, V 30 Downtown Sports Centre is centrally located, and the faculties of the site and the property as well as the projected sports centre to be built had seriously challenging expectations. Rated […]

Sports Hall, Szentendre Architect: Sándor Jassó Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Abigél Riesz The original aim of the project was to design and construct a new sports hall for the Franciscan secondary school in Szentendre which is suited for sports, religious and ceremonial events of the school and can also be used as the venue for […]