2013/7

Mining activities going on for fifty years in Kemenes resulted in huge scars on the crater and thus exposed the processes and layers of ancient volcanic activities creating a brand-new texture visually and geologically. This in fact inspired volcanologist Dr. Szabolcs Harangi to a large-scale innovative development for tourism simultaneously…

It is quite a while since I’ve been of the opinion that the way to understanding a work of art leads us through getting to know the circumstances of its creation as well as the personality of its author or artist rather than via a kind of comparative description and categorization of the art piece itself. As a result of his Erasmus activities in Oulu…

The Green House integrates into the series of green office blocks built recently that do not feature yet the whole toolbar of sustainable architecture and are only modestly innovative: they were designed to include just as much as needed in order to be rated as top-end real estates in the market and only what is profitable PR-wise.

Erected on the campus of the university of Debrecen, the new demonstration centre targets at the tangible, plain and reasonable with its proportions, whilst its forms represent the abstract, scientific and guessable. Human-scale proportions are matched with the spirit of research here. The perfect cube form as a base body was almost…

Although the values of contemporary architecture tend to remain invisible or alien to the wide public, the office block in Medve Street is sure to attract the attention of passers-by. This pile of container-size glass boxes probably reminds the non-professionals of children’s toys made of lego or wooden bricks rather than of any work of contemporary…

Blue Planet, the largest aquarium of Denmark was completed this March. Its architectural design is based on a symbol, but goes far beyond this: presented as a form of a whirlpool, it also expresses the complex systen of correlations between 21st-century civilisation and water. 3XN, a Danish team of architects made a design of a spiral shaping…

The building housing Tea-House now used to be a pub as well as a residential building later on functioning as a school and a culture centre. As even rabbits were kept and mushrooms were grown here, the building underwent utmost deterioration. The local community decided to salvage the building. This complex development involves…

Along the stairs that wind up Castle Hill in Buda, there is a small residential building standing in ruins for a long time. The local government of the Buda Castle District worked out a reconstruction project for this protected historic monument after several years’ preparation and thorough research as for the protection of listed buildings…

Louis Kahn started working on the designs of the New York-based park devoted to the memory of President Roosevelt about forty years ago. A year later he died, and thus the concept remained in blueprint and unfinished. Finally, the foundation stone was laid in 2010 and the Four Freedoms Park was inaugurated in October, 2012…

A real gem of wineries owned by Hungarians in the Hegyalja region, Holdvölgy in Mád designed by Péter Bordás is to be completed to its tiniest details by next March. Bord Architects Studio integrated local building materials and revived economical architectural traditions with due attention to the technologically precisely regulated spaces…

Inaugurated this year, it is promoted on the worldwide net with this slogan: „the first museum ever along the Italian highways”. It has a single unsurpassable architectural prototype: the first highway-church, which is a fantastic organic-Modernist architecture by Giovanni Michelucci along Autostrada del Sole (1964). This latter building…