Festetics-Palace and Szemző Mansion, Kőszeg Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Tamás Fejérdy Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky These two historic buildings reconstructed in one project in Kőszeg are Festetics Palace and Szemző Mansion. What is the reason why we may consider the recently finished reconstructions of two significant structure different in so many respects, such as style, period, […]

Shopmark Shopping Centre, Budapest Architect: András Tibor Kertész, Tamás Tóth Text: László Mikó Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky As of today, shopping centres have a lifetime of 15-20 years on average regarding both their market values and technical standards that quickly start to deteriorate. After reaching that age they are typically sold, renewed, or remodelled. Inaugurated in […]

Sport Centre of Puskás Ferenc Football Academy, Felcsút Architect: Tamás Dobrosi Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Dobrosi In 1983, Imre Makovecz published the proclamation of the elements of organic architectural thinking and view. Tamás Dobrosi consciously undertakes to continue the tradition of organic architecture. The new sports center was built directly next to the Puskás […]

The Reconstruction of István Bárány Swimming-Pool in Eger Architects: Antal Puhl, Péter Dajka Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: József Hajdú The sports swimming-pool in Eger stands on the yard of the former Star inn, built after designs by Géza Bárány and Béla Márkus in Eger 1925. It is an 8-lane wide 50 metre long pool which […]

The New Gym Hall of Vörösmarty Mihály Secondary Grammar School, Érd Architects: Attila Turi, Bálint Terdik Text: Balázs Csóka DLA Photos: Zsófia Kedves The development scheme financed by the Hungarian state titled Classroom, Gym Hall, Swimming-Pool was launched in 2014. As its first stage is coming to an end soon, and its second phase is […]

Mystery Hotel, Budapest Architects: Dr. Mihály Zoltán Oláh – Konstruma Mérnöki Iroda Kft. Interior design: Zoltán Varró Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zsolt Batár Started at the beginning of 2019, the reconstruction project of the elegant turn-of-the century tenement palace standing at the corner of Podmaniczky Street in Budapest was completed after a long and eventful […]

Texture Restaurant, Budapest Architects: István Muzsai, Anett Ficzere Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky An important segment of fine dining is composition, the combination of high-tech with traditional technologies, a variety of procedures, the amalgamation and blending of materials and experiments, involving methods or fields of science typically rather distant from each other. The same […]

The Reconstruction of the Pilgrimage Complex in Mariazell Architects: Feyferlik/Fritzer Text: Zorán Vukoszávlyev Photos: Paul Ott Mariazell has been a frequented site of pilgrimage since the 16th century. Its main altarpiece is featured by a dynamic composition consecrated in 1704 designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The continuous renovations carried out in the past […]

The Castle of Bač Text: Éva Lovra Photos: Csilla Dávid In 2018, in the Year of European Cultural Heritage the project meant to protect the architectural heritage of the castle of Bač in Serbia and its environment was awarded the Europa Nostra Grand Prix . The complex representing the tactile best of our versatile cultural […]

Hungarian Heritage House, Budapest Architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus, Botond Benedek, Krisztina T. Major Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Building the Buda-based Vigadó at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was the realization of middle-class people’s dreams cherished for a long time: they would have liked to have a building similarly to […]

Exhibition Interiors in the reopened Museum of Fine Arts Istallations: Narmer Építészeti Stúdió Text: Miklós Sulyok Photos: Klára Lovas – Narmer Stúdió Recently reopened, the Museum of Fine Arts has four of its exhibitions designed by Narmer Architects. Being experienced in the genre, the architects solved their tasks with an imposing and impressive certainty and […]

Baba Guel Mausoleum, Budapest Architect: István Mányi Text: Eszter Götz Photos: József Hajdú Located on a most beautiful site in Buda, this modest-size look-out opens up on the eastern slope of Rózsadomb, which has been the final resting place of a Turkish dervish named Baba Guel for five centuries now. After a long period of […]