Wood Pellets Dry-Room, Monor Architects: Katalin Fazekas, Péter Fejérdy, Balázs Kemes, Miklós Oroszlány Text: Bálint Marosi Photos: Zsófia Boczán, Albert Máté – KépKocka, Balázs Kemes Based in Monor, the wood pellets dry-room is an auxiliary building of a few square metres erected on the outskirts of the town. The Maltese charity organisation has been dealing […]
The Bow of a Thrown Ball
Gammel School extension, Hellerup, Denmark Architect: BIG Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Iwan Baan, Jens Lindhe Danish architecture studio BIG has completed a sunken sports hall where an arching wooden roof doubles up as a hilly courtyard. The new multi-purpose hall will primarily be for the pupils’ physical education and social development. The hall is placed […]
Openings Almost Bizarre
Residential House, Debrecen Architect: Péter Kovács Text: Attila Kőszeghy Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The architect and his client realized a gesture opening both the exterior and the interior, which is original regarding its scale and nature, by almost ultimately simple surfaces and masses matched high standards when planning and constructing this residential building in Debrecen. Architect […]
Measure and Scale
Dwelling-House, Szentendre Architect: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Text: Eszter Dénes Photos: György Dénes The house in Szentendre designed by architect Gábor Bártfai-Szabó reflects clarity and good sense in its forms, whilst embodying timelessness which, in turn, has calming effects on the viewers. It is both correct and appropriate considering its context: it is primarily the domain of […]
Concept Tender on the Rehabilitation of the Museum Gardens
Scheme by TÉR-TEAM Ltd, First Prize Concept and text: Gábor Szabó, András Szende, Kristóf Attila Juhász The primary goal of the tender was to reconstruct the landscape and revive the existing flora, whilst enriching the ecological and utilization functions of the Museum Gardens in line with the designs made by Ármin Petz in the 1850s. […]
The Focal Point Found
Digital Power Plant and National Film History Theme Park, Ózd Architect: Györgyi Csontos Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Ózd, which used to be an industrial centre based on metallurgy back in the Socialist era, had ultimately demolished its factory plant simultaneously with the change of the political system in 1990 when there was a […]
Handing Down Knowledge at the Highest Level
Almásy Mansion, Visitors’ Centre, Gyula Architects: László Földes, Csaba Balogh Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The very first building of the mansion in Gyula was built by János György Harruckern, who was given the area as a reward for his services to King Charles III of Hungary after the withdrawal of the Turkish conquerors […]
Venues in Eger
Ruins of Valide Sultana Baths; Ellátó – Arkt Arts Centre Architects: Tas Komáromi (Valide Sultana); Gábor Fábián, Dénes Fajcsák (Ellátó – Arkt Arts Centre) Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: József Hajdú Eger has been enriched with two developments recently which have the potentials to evolve into genuine venues in the depth of this town of modest […]
The First Shot
MOME Workshop House, Budapest Architects: Zsófia Csomay, Tamás Németh Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Back in 1952 – just when the College of Applied Arts moved to Zugligeti Road – it was clear that the existing building shall not have enough capacity to contain all the necessary functions. The lack of an integral venue […]
Instead of Demolishing
Bige Holding Office Block, Nyíregyháza Architect: Csaba Kovács Text: Zoltán Győrffy Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Based in Nyíregyháza, Nzrt-Trade Ltd is a member of Bige Holding Group as a supplier of artificial fertilizers in the agricultural regions in Eastern Hungary. Its new office center has been implemented by transforming and reinterpreting the old headquarters after designs […]
A Drop of Water Wrapped Around
Bike-centre by the Lake Tisza Architects: Árpád Ferdinánd, Csaba Ferdinánd Text: Dávid Bán Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky A drop of water along the Lake Tisza. A white building wrapped around by ramps. Árpád Ferdinánd and Csaba Ferdinánd designed the first bike centre of Hungary to be built here on the margins of Tiszafüred. The option was […]
Exemplary Standards
Health Centre, Csomád Architects: József Kolossa, Bartha Katalin Kolossáné, András Weiszkopf Text: Sándor Csontó Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky As of today, one can clearly feel an increasingly heightened social sensitivity of contemporary architecture: an approach focussing on local and genuine needs instead of mega-scale investments and developments, high-brow philosophies and gestures of leaving signs behind. Decision-makers […]