Catholic Kindergarten, Budafok-Tétény Architect: Gábor Csanády Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Anna Fábry In the early 1800s, a school was built in the centre of Budafok, behind the Roman Catholic church, in a village then famous for its vineyards and wine cellars. Later on, a cross-wing was added tot he structure on the upper floor, and […]

Apartment Building, Budapest Architect: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás BujnovszkyBuilt on the corner of Székely Bertalan and Szondi streets in Terézváros, the condominium seeks responses to the duality between the inherited cityscape and the livable, inhabitable interior spaces as we interpret them today. Here, the spirit of experimentation has given birth to some […]

Family House, Remeteszőlős Architecture: GUBAHÁMORI Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Balázs Danyi It is a curved building that reveals itself mysteriously, step by step. Clean, coherent and continuous, but not fully reveaing itself all at once. GUBAHÁMORI’s design team has designed an out-of-trend, characteristic and yet not “rebellious” residential house for Remeteszőlős. The house balances between […]

Car Park, Sopron Architect: Zoltán Tima Text: Levente Móré Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky What sort of architectural gestures can be used to make a certain building type, the car park, which today has a very poor prestige, more acceptable? Zoltán Tima and his colleagues at KÖZTI have answered this question with a building of austere structure, […]

Budapest ONE Multi-Storey Car Park, Őrmező Architect: Ágnes Streit Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The newest parking garage of Budapest, built in Őrmező, next to the M1-M7 motorways, provides parking lots for tenants of the Budapest ONE office building and for people who arrive in the city. Its unique, unconventional facade design distinguishes it […]

La Samaritaine Department Store, Paris Architects: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa – SANAA Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Agence VUʼ To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the famous department store of Paris named La Samaritaine, in 2020, a new outlook has been created. Designed in 1904 by Belgian architect Frantz Jourdain, the riveted steel-framed […]

Athletic Stadium, Budapest Text: György Szegő Architects: Marcel Ferencz, György Détári Photos: György Palkó The development of the National Athletics Centre is to connect the northern and southern areas of the entire Pest quay for thosa walking, travelling by bicycle (and by the river using the harbour). The three-level facility is located in the heart […]

MOL Campus, Budapest Architects: Foster and Partners, Finta és Társai Építész Stúdió Interior Architects: KINZO Architekten, Minusplus Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Attila Gulyás MOL Campus is the very first skyscraper in Budapest and the tallest office building all over Hungary. It is built on land between Kopaszi dam and the new, densely developed residential and […]

Budapest ONE Office Building, Budapest Architects: Gergely Paulinyi, András Reith, István Vámossy Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The parametric ring designed by Paulinyi&Partners has become an iconic building forming part of the skyline of Kelenföld. The sculpturesque volume appears as a landmark within the urban fabric, which does not impose itself on its surroundings […]

Kozmo Hotel and Zoya Apartment Hotel, Budapest Architects: Gergely Draskóczy, Gabriella Mészáros Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Batár Horváth Mihály Square, near József Boulevard, is one of the most important squares in district VIII of Pest. Although it is bisected by the busy Baross Street, the more than 200-year-old St. Joseph’s Church lends it a […]

Kós Károly Vocational School, Érd Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Balázs Danyi Over the past 50 years, the city of Érd has developed by leaps and bounds. While in 1970 the settlement was a village, in 1979 it was rated as a town. The renovation of the buildings housing Károly Kós […]

Vasas Ski House, Normafa, Budapest Architects: Botond Völgyi, György Székely Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: József Hajdú This story began with a wooden hut, a classic ERDÉRT type hut, now for who knows what reason, installed near the forest path leading from Normafa to János Hill. It is a temporary building or a base for foresters, […]