Plasencia Auditorium and Conference Centre, Murcia, Spain Architects: Jose Selgas, Lucia Cano Text: Levente Gyulai, Vilmos Katona Photos: Iwan Baan Designed by Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano, Plasencia conference centre and auditorium is located in Murcia, Spain, on the outskirts of Cartagena. Although SelgasCano architects won the tender back in 2005, the complex with a […]

Parisian Court, Budapest Architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus, Ádám Pásztor, Kriszta T. Major, Miklós Batta Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Péter Molnár, Krisztián Bódis Originally there had been a business complex on the lot built in 1817 after Parisian models, which is where it today’s originates from. In 1906 the lot was purchased by the Inner […]

Reconstruction of the Synagogue in Rumbach Sebestyén Street Architects: Tamás Kőnig, Péter Wagner Text: Vilmos Katona Photos: József Hajdú An early Art Nouveau style synagogue is the one and only design by Otto Wagner which has been actually built in Hungary. Standing in Rumbach Sebestyén Street, this prayer house was built in a Moresque style […]

Church Reconstructions in Ormánság Architects: Dániel Rabb, Péter Rabb Text: Dániel Rabb, Péter Rabb Photos: Lajos Kalmár The project titled Eight churches in Ormánság was launched in 2014 by the sponsorship of National Cultural Fund, with the aim to prevent the further deterioration of the structures already in bad condition then, and restore the painted […]

Pharmacy Garden, Budajenő Architect: Lívia Zsiros-Kundrík Text: Krisztián Dudics Photos: Balázs Danyi A forested landscape in a hilly region, an area of small cultivated gardens tiny near the capital city which is still a place with an idyllic rural atmosphere. There are two snowwhite houses with pitched roofs and clear-cut contours and an open pergola-type […]

Children’s Camp, Balatonfenyves Architect: György Dénes Text: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Photos: György Dénes The local government of Budapest District II made a decision to modernize its existing children’s camp. The outdated barracks thus should be replaced by something new – this is as far as the process reached soon to be followed by a stage to […]

Árpád Open-air Baths, Csillaghegy Architect: Márta Németh Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: József Hajdú After a long period of instability and making several compromises, the new building of Árpád Open-Air Baths complex was opened to the public. The curing effects of the springs in Csillaghegy had already been obvious for the Romans, who supplied water to […]

Market and Community Zone, Békásmegyer Architect: Alfréd Peschla Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Located at the northern end of Buda, the market opened in the early 1980s in a spacious housing estate has now received a new hall and next year it is going to be extended with a community space right behind it. […]

The Look-Out on Lila Hill Re-Opened Architect: József Koller Text: Anett Mizsei, Vilmos Katona Photos: József Hajdú The tower built for geodesic measurings was built on top of the 313 metre hill in 1977 and has been now facelifted after a long period of isolation to welcome visitors in safety. As a result of the […]

Reconstruction of Contemporary Arts Museum, Belgrade Architects: Dejan Todorovic (2017), Ivan Antić, Ivanka Raspopović (1965) Text: Éva Lovra Photos: Éva Lovra, Bojana Janjic / MSUB The awards ceremony of the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2019 was held in Barcelone on May 7th with the opening of the exhibition titled -What’s Old, What’s New. […]

National Dance Theatre, Budapest Architects: Zoboki Gábor, Orlovits Balázs, Lente András Text: Dragon Zoltán Photos: Bujnovszky Tamás The new building of the National Dance Theatre opened its gates at the beginning of 2019. With a floor area of 6,950 square metres the new dance theatre is a conversion from the E block of the Millennary […]

Jazz Loft Aquincum Apartments, Budapest Architect: Bence Turányi Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: Zsolt Batár Built at the end of the 19th century for the purposes of the First Pest.based Millworks, the mill and store buildings have stood derelict and abandoned for some decades in Óbuda up until the early 2010s when the first part of […]