The Reconstruction of Kopácsy Mill in Veszprém Architects: Zsolt György Kovács, Beránková Jana, Dávid Kovács, Gábor Gaschler Text: János Géczi Photos: Dávid Kovács The fact that Veszprém featured Mediterranean characteristics which are well worth attention and tuning to has recently been discovered by architects. Winding in an S shape along Séd stream heading for the […]
Life Spiral
Health Centre, Budakalász Architects: Zoltán Horváth Text: Marianna Berényi Photos: György Dénes The Health Centre in Budakalász not only houses new surgeries but also features communal areas where people as well as material and transcendency meet in a spectacular way. When the local government of the town commissioned Zoltán Horváth to design a new surgery […]
War and Peace – Bunker 599
Dutch Design Award 2011 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2013 Design: Ronald Rietveld/RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon Text: György Szegő Photos: RAAAF The project of RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon turned a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. […]
Mongol National Archeological Museum
International Architectural Design Contest 1st Prize Concept: Barna Kovács D., Krisztina Barna Fellow designers: Zsuzsa Lukács, Bulgan Altangerel, Ochir Tuvshinbayar At the beginning of 2014 a team of young architects won the first prize of the design contest of the new archeological museum of Mongolia. Meant to be a multi-functional complex, it is also to […]
The Signs of Present
Tuning Fork Villa in Veszprém Architects: Anthony Gall, Gabriella Albóciné Ábrahám Text: Vilmos Katona Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The centre of Veszprém has been an exciting location for the management of the town since the 1960s. Even the younger generation of architects feels some guilt because of the partial demolition of the inner city which was […]
Past as Design
Tiszavirág Hotel, Szeged Concept: Judit Z. Halmágyi, Dóra Fónagy, Orsolya Bakos Architect: Róbert Sárai Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tibor Zsitva The new owner did not only furnish a beautiful and well-functioning boutique hotel into the building of the former Tiszavirág („Mayfly”) pub, but also evoked the eventful history of the house from its ruins. The […]
Ready for a Change
Extension of the Debrecen University, Faculty of Technology, First Stage Architects: Antal Puhl, Péter Dajka Text: András Bán Photos: Zoltán Skrabák The complex housing the Faculty of Technology, Debrecen University, the campus in Ótemető Street is slightly far from the city centre and was built in Sámsonikert, a residential zone of a predominantly single-storey houses […]
Complex Harmony
The Extension of Sauska Winery, Villány Architetcs: Péter Sugár DLA Text: Marianna Berényi Photos: Tibor Zsitva The last year is undoubtedly a memorable one for Sauska Winery. Their wine of 2009 named Cuvée 5 has been the first Hungarian one rated as the best at London’s Decanter World Wine Awards, whilst at home their winery […]
Focussed Attention
SPAR Supermarket, Budapest, MOM Park Architetcs: Linda Erdélyi, András Dobos, Balázs Korényi, Virág Anna Gáspár Text: Rózsa Csavarga Photos: Zsolt Batár The shop of SPAR housed in the basement of MOM Park attracts attention with its style. Designers created transparent interiors furnished with systems of counters with island-like design structured with colours of an economical […]
Playful Logistics
DHL Centre, Ferihegy Architects: Béla Bánáti, Gabriella Hoffman, Zoltán Nyirati Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Zoltán Vass Budapest Airport published an invitational tender in February, 2010 to utilize three unused areas of Liszt Ferenc Airport by integrating business, commercial and logistic functions. The would-be business park with its commercial functions will be made a genuinely humane […]
Expo Milan 2015 Hungarian Pavilion
Expo Milan 2015 Hungarian Pavilion Result of the Spectacle Concept Contest, January 2014 Mill – First-Prize Project by Tamás Getto and Ákos Hutter Beyond interpreting the ancient symbol – mill, wheat, bread –, the Hungarian Pavilion also suits its modern readings perceptible in people’s everyday life. The mill simultaneously symbolizes the „Blue Economy”, the goal […]
A Test of Courage
A4 Studio had an utterly simple idea for this utterly simple construction to reflect the standards of fencing in Hungary by architectural means: a golden medal calls for a golden box. Courage was much needed to come up with such an obvious, pretentious concept in the context of contemporary Hungarian architecture which is permeated by a variety…