Inside-In Office Building, Budapest Architects: Donát Rabb, Zsolt Alexa, Ákos Schreck Text: Anna Zöldi  Photos: Tamás Török / Topogram Redesigned by Minusplus, this building was a readily found object that the creators took on with great excitement. They worked on it until they achieved a result that everyone concerned liked: a well-functioning, cool contemporary interior […]

Ferenc Kozma Agricultural Technical College Sports Hall, Mezőhegyes Architect: András Katona Text: Kristóf Mánya Photos: Máté Czabán The town is located just four kilometers from the Romanian border. This position in itself defines a specific and limited historical path for development that is difficult to tackle. The building complex of the Ferenc Kozma Agricultural Technical […]

Goodwill Office Building, Szeged Architect: Csongor Török Text: Péter Vesmás Photos: Zsófia Török The pharmaceutical company named Goodwill purchased a dilapidated corner lot half a block in size in Szeged to build its new office building on. It was quite a sensible decision to make use of the two existing buildings preserved on the site. […]

Open-air Stage, Bükkszentkereszt Architect: Miklós Salamin Text: Enikő Harmath-Gyetvay Photos: Miklós Salamin Bükkszentkereszt, a village nestling in a valley surrounded by mountains, is the second highest settlement in the country. In the 2020s, several open-air stages were built in the neighbouring villages with the help of grant funding to respond to real needs. The building […]

Slachta Margit College, Budapest Architects: Alfréd Peschka, Gabriella Öcsi Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky To the west of the capital city, Budapest, along the road leading to the motorway, a blue-framed industrial building had stood vacant for more than a decade. The area itself, squeezed between the main roads and the nearby railway line, […]

House of Remembrance of the Augustow Roundup, Augustow, Poland Architecture: Tremend Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Bartosz Makowski The historic Dom Turka facility located in Augustow, Poland opened for the public as the House of Remembrance of the Augustow Roundup. The facility, a witness to the tragic events of 1945, has been restored and adapted for […]

Holiday Visitors’ Centre, Balatonfüred Architects: László Herczeg, Tamás Vörös DLA Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Fenes Gaining fame as the Esterházy Mansion in Balatonfüred, the history of the former holiday home dates from the late 18th century to the 1960s. The L-shaped building, built in 1782 in its first phase, was still a single-floor structure, […]

Reconstruction of Wenckheim Castle, Szabadkígyós Architects: Csaba Balogh, Ágnes Deigner, Levente Sirokai, Péter Sónicz Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Levente Sirokai After the Wenckheim-Almásy Castle in Gyula, the Wenckheim Castle in Szabadkígyós became a place of arrival for both the family who built it and the architectural firm that managed the reconstruction. For Krisztina and Frigyes […]

Reconstruction of Tisza Castle, Geszt Architects: András Katona, András Zakariás, Tamás Zakariás Text: Eszter Götz, Domonkos Wettstein Photos: Balázs Danyi It took nine years of comprehensive development within the framework of the National Castle Programme to open the Tisza Castle in Geszt, the ancient home of the Tisza family, in the summer of 2024, after […]

Calvinist Kindergartens, Gyömrő, Dunaharaszti, Mándok Architect: Dezső Ekler Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In the shadow of the pandemic, several plans for Calvinist kindergartens were completed almost simultaneously in Dezső Ekler’s office to be built by autumn 2022. The kindergartens planned for various municipalities in the country are just like brothers and sisters. Their […]

Madárhegyi Kindergarten, Budapest Architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus Text: Marcell Szuhanyik Photos: Balázs Danyi Located in Budapest, Madárhegy has been an area earmarked for development for several decades, and the expansion of family life in the early 2000s, which was at its peak then, prompted people to move to the agglomeration. Newly built condominiums now […]

TRUMPF Hungary Office building and showroom in Gödöllő Architecture: Barkow Leibinger Gesellschaft von Architekten, Óbuda Group Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Tamás Török / Topogram Based in Ditzingen, the German company, which has become international during its 100 years of existence, has been present in Hungary since 2013. Opened last year, its headquarters in Gödöllő’s Industrial […]