2010/4

„History has accelerated”– this observation by Pierre Nora initiating research into places of recollection and referring to the fact that the perception of things tend to topple over into past sooner and sooner already refers to the present in Shanghai. The 2010 World Exhibition had entered the musealized past in the very moment of its opening…

Olympic Games and world exhibitons are simply unimaginable now without a „sign” conceived in the scale of architecture. The press in London received the latest design by Indian-born British star sculptor Anish Kapoor using adjectives like „peculiar, reserved and complicated”. The artist who had previously been awarded the Turner prize and the Golden Lion said…

A giant building with a vast basic area: it is quite a task to take a tour of it. It has a main emtrance opposite the new elementary school in Hársfa Street where two public buildings come together in a spectacular streetscape. I visited the complex and its neighbourhood just a fortnight ago and since then I have been thinking about the possible causes of the weird fact that…

The famous swimming hall of Hungária Baths in Pest – or at least what has been preserved of it – was given a facelift after a period of decay lasting more than 40 years: the site of the complex with a past of 190 years was treated as an issue of prestige by the investor constructing a hotel whilst also restoring this outstanding monument of Art Nouveau architecture…

With Essen as one of the cultural capitals of Europe, the cultural programme is spread all over the Ruhr Valley region throughout the year. The ECC programme focusses on a change of profile whilst preserving the industrial heritage of the region. Once a prohibited town, the centre of munitions industry and heavy industry in Germany…

The deadline of the open, secret international design tender for the development of the National Museum and the Musem Garden is over. 83 teams submitted their applications, and out of the 61 valid designs the jury has selected 5 for a prize. Both the description of the design tender published and the results have been received with an intense attention…

Built after designs by Calatrava, Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencias in Valencia is receiving and integrating a new district with cultural and recreational functions and an interactive science museum in its centre. In 2003 an architectural tender was conducted for the extension of the existing institutions of the „Palace of Miracles” in Granada.

Farkas Bethlen, the mayor of Verőce decided to have a church – bearing the name the Carpathian Motherland – built from pulic contributions with a wide scale collaboration and in voluntary work along the road to Katalin-puszta near the village in the Danube Bend, on a forested hill in the vicinity of Lósi Valley. Underneath the eaves along a whole ellipse…

In Ørestad, one of the most dynamically developed outer district of Copenhagen, a large number of buildings built recently by offices of innovative young Danish architects have received most prestigious professional awards. As a result of the latest developments, this district is accessible by the first tube system of the country…

The utilization of renewable energy resources is an integral part of sustainable energy supply in the future. The biomass heating plant completed in 2009 as part of the investment by the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma was designed in compliance with the local conditions and environmental potentials.

Although the new yachting club of ELMŰ is a small-scale building with simple functions, its designer saw maximal potentials in it. He could envision an object floating above the earth and sails evoking white cut-back surfaces, and his imagination fills up the sparing investment with beauty and refined reason. The airy character of the lower level associates the house…