Haris Park, Budapest Architects: Márton Kovács, Sándor Göcsei Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: György Darabos Founded in 1696, the Civilian Shooting Association in Buda moved to its permanent home in 1885. Built in the „Swiss” style, the house evokes the characteristic architecture of mansions, containing a banquet hall. The single-storey central block is flanked by smaller […]
Adjusting, Radical Minimalism
James-Simon-Galerie, Museumsinsel, Berlin Architect: David Chipperfield Text: György Szegő Photos: Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz Established recently, the gallery based in Berlin creates contact with two museum buildings built in the 19th century that had previously only touched each other in a shifted position: Altes Museum was connected with the Neues Museum by Stüler via a bottleneck […]
To Create an Established Order
Winery reconstruction, Pitigliano, Italy Architect: Antonello Stella Text: András Tibor Kertész Photos: Roberto Vaccai Architect Antonello Stella worked in Pitigliano at the early stage of his career, his very first xproject being the designs of the archaeological museum of the town there. Some thirty years later he was given another task at the same place: […]
Continuous Past
The Renewed Carmelite Complex Architects: Gábor Zoboki, Csaba Silvester Text: Miklós Sulyok Photos: Tamás Réthey-Prikkel This task may have been the most difficult one for design in the past few decades in Hungarian architecture with which Gábor Zoboki was commissioned: he had to design the new headquarters of the Ministers in the Castle District by […]
A New Beginning
Fatima Pilgrimage Center and Shrine, Alsószentiván Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Vilmos Katona Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The appearance of the Blessed Virgin in Fatima was first celebrated on May 13th in 1951 in Alsószentiván. This tiny village has been frequented by lots of pilgrims since then, the Catholic church being a shrine on the 13th of […]
A Striking Answer
The Calvinist Church, Újpalota, Budapest Architect: Balázs Kertész Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In the early 2000s, the Calvinist community started to evolve in Pestújhely and Újpalota, which soon brought about the need for a church of their own. Design process launched in 2015 followed a programme clearly phrased by the congregation whilst allowing […]
A Change of Scales in Zugligeti Road
The transformation of MOME Campus Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Hlinka The comprehensive reconstruction of the Campus of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has reached its resting point. The large-scale project was launched in the wake of a governmental decree in 2014: a tender was published to invite […]
An Open Book
József Attila Public Library, Makó Architects: Imre Makovecz†, Judit Szente-Vargáné Gerencsér Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zsófia Kedves, Tibor Zsitva The building opened as the home of the public library in Makó 1971 had deteriorated hazardously by 2007. The first sketches for its reconstruction were made by Dezső Ekler in 1997. Back in those days the […]
Market, Ecomony
Market Hall, Nagykőrös Architects: Irén Járomi, Gyula Kiss Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: György Palkó Nagykőrös is a traditionally agricultural and commercial centre with a monthly market which is a major forum for regional trade. The preservation of traditions is a prioritized mission of the town. In order to allow the market to throb like the […]
Danube Riverbank Awakening
Pesterzsébet Open-air Baths Építészek: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus, Bence László Dobos, Zsolt Nagy Szöveg: Zoltán Dragon Fotók: József Hajdú The baths complex was founded in Pesterzsébet in 1924, almost at the peak season of such facilities in Budapest. The model, which it was designed after, as well as a point of reference for it was […]
A Competitive Alternative
Solar Decathlon 2019, Szentendre Text: Krisztián Dudics Photos: Képkocka / Gergely Potyondi, Solar Decathlon In 2002 a contest for universities and the construction industry was launched on the initiative of the government titled Solar Decathlon to encourage designs and the construction of modern exemplary residential buildings that offer innovative, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable alternatives based on […]
EXPO 2019 at the Foot of the Great Chinese Wall
Gardening World Exhibition, Beijing, 29 April – 7 October 2019 Text and photos: Pál Lővei Some 74 km from the centre of Beijing, the most frequented part of the great wall in Badaling is backed by a basin of Yanqing Hills where an international gardening exhibition was opened covering the largest area in the history […]