Kós Károly Prize was founded to recognize excellent achievements of individuals and communities protecting local architectural heritage and preserving architectural traditions. Every year it is awarded on or about December 16th, the birthday of a creator using motifs of Transylvanian folk art and historic Hungarian architectural monuments.
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Prima Primissima Prize 2012
On December 7th 2012 this year’s Prima Primissima Prizes were handed over in the Palace of Arts (Művészetek Palotája), Budapest. The prize founded by Sándor Demján went to Péter Török landscape designer in the category „Architecture and Architectural Art”, whilst architects Balázs Balogh and Antal Lázár were awarded the Prima Award…
A House Beyond the Vineyard
The rough-cool world of the house ends in a genuine concrete roofing. The interior is airy and light, which is a consequent follow-up continuation of the approach to space the tandem of designers presented in their award-winning arcaded house on plinth in Balatonakarattya: with a frame of many components, the structure is material-wise…
An Extraordinary Case
On a corner site in Józsefváros a new day nursery was built to replace the former single-floor kindergarten. Flanked by 12-17 m partition walls the new two-storey structure is only 3-9 m tall. The basic situation is a result of the dramatic tension between the faculties of the site and the design programme: the latter only justified a development…
Zánka rising up
Inaugurated in 1969 the children’s camp in the oak-forest in Zánka offered its capacity of 3,000 in summer and 6,000 in winter. The central building of the Pioneers’ Town of Zánka receives visitors with a large ground-floor pie. This single-floor mass houses catering, the library, an exhibition room, the hairdresser’s and offices.
A Heritage Honoured
Built in the 1840s, the residence of the Apponyi counts rates as a mansion because of its dimensions, whilst its orientation and stepped terrace with an imposing buttress makes it more like a castle. The auxiliary buildings once housed a stable, cart-shed and quarters for the staff. However, it is only one of the melléképület that has come down to us.
In Place of Miracles
The building designed here acts like a palace: the emphasis is on the representative agora embodying the primary message of the building. The structure with a T-plan has a wing parallel with Kálvária Boulevard cutting the inside of the block into two: the southern side turns into a formal courtyard – the elevations with loggias face this…
Quarters for Pilgrims and Tourists in the Pilis
The goal of pilgrimages in the Pilis Hills is travelling all along the route itself. After covering this distance of 56 km pilgrims reach the site considered to be their destination on the third day. Here they can have a rest and spend the night. My basic principle of designing is an architectural approach free of politics and religion. The structure wishes…
A glass Half Empty
Széll Kálmán Square that can be described by this astronomical concept as a kind of earthly „black hole” has swallowed every single effort and attempt to urbanistic, environmental revitalization or development projects to develop it in the past few decades with no trace left. Bearing the name of Moscow throughout five decades (1951–2011)…
The Resurrection of a Dockyard
In the spring of 2011 the city of Belgrade published a one-turn international architectural design contest titled The Complex Waterfront Development of the river Sava with the objective to reinterpret and improve the waterfront nexus of the Serbian capital and establish a new reception site by anchoring a contemporary architectural sign…
8 blacks – On the riverside, sheltered from the winds
Originally it was meant to be a weekend resort, but by the end of the designing phase the „8 Blacks” complex turned out to be a residential house and a whole series of associated structures built by the river Venta. Its clients, a Lithuanian family with many children settled down here for good, and saw the potentials of a changed lifestyle in the design…
From a Farmyard to an Art Center
The architects of the team named Studio AUTORI are prominent representatives of the new generation in Serbia. Their award-winning design was realized in Mokrin (Vajdaság region) a village once significant in the Bánság area originally referred to as Homokrév inhabited by Serbians, Germans and Hungarians. This project of architects gained reputation …