Results of the Design Contest The Hungarian Arts Academy published the single-turn archietctural design contest titled “The Park of Architecture” in September 2021 to house the collections and exhibitions of the Hungarian Architecture Museum and Monument Protection Documentation Centre maintained by the Academy as well as its public functions in a complex. The task was […]
2022
Retuning
The Reconstruction of the Opera House Architect: Gábor Zoboki Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Réthey-Prikkel The Opera House of Budapest was accepted with huge respect on its opening to the public in 1884. Built after designs by Miklós Ybl, it was an architectural bravado of architecture and is regarded as such even today. The original […]
Wide Perspectives
PADME Science Centre, Budapest Architects: Júlia Losonczy, Miklós Oroszlány Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Balázs Danyi Castle Hill in Buda is undoubtedly a most significant site of the country also in the architectural sense. Walking on the streets of the middle-class district we see the medieval grid of plots openly revealing the evolution of the historical […]
Contemporary and Modern
Family Mansion, Sopron Architect: Bence Török-Szabolcs Text: Anna Szövényi Photos: Zsolt Batár Located south of downtown Sopron is a contemporary design family mansion built in a characteristic hillside grown over with pine trees facing north. The landscape wedged between the city and the mountains we can see press-houses like cellars interspersing well-sized residential buildings being […]
Witnessing Walls
Conversion of the Franciscan Convent and St Anthony’s Church in Pasarét, Budapest Architect: Gábor Sajtos Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The complex housing the Franciscan Convent and St Anthony’s Church in Pasarét was consecrated in 1934 and was perhaps the most modern church building in Budapest back in tose days. Its designer, Gyula Rimanóczy […]
A Live Icon
The New Community Hall of Hungarian Saints’ Parish, Budapest Architects: Mihály Balázs, Dávid Török, Balázs Falvai, Márton Nagy Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Antal Bánhegyesy Located in the campus of ELTE in Lágymányos, the Hungarian Saints’ Church was extended by a new community hall, which was justified by the pure fact that the congregation attracts a […]
Simple Solutions
MAGtár Events Hall, Alsóbogát Architect: Miklós M. Miltényi Text: Anna Szövényi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Alsóbogát is a tiny village halfway between Kaposvár and Lake Balaton, and yet it has a history of a millennium and also has two castles. One of them, referred to as the Festetics-Inkey castle has an estate of significant size, a […]
A Public Building of a Village
Telki Sports Hall Architect: Barnabás Láris Text: Gergő Burián Photos: Bálint Jaksa The evolution of the sports hall in Telki is a unique story: as a prelude to the existing house, a vault-shaped hangar-like metal sports hall was built by the town. The shell-structure hall was not a design welcome by the locals, and were […]
Co-working House from an Industrial Monument
Base4Work, Bratislava Architecture, interiors: DF Creative Group, Studio Perspektiv Text: György Szegő Photos: BoysPlayNice There are only a few buildings with industrial history left in Bratislava that have managed to adapt to the current needs. One of them is functionalist building of Dusan Jurkovič’s Heating Plant, which has been opened to the public after a […]
Art House from the Mill
Reconstruction and extension of the former Festetics mill in Toponár Concept and text: Anna Fekecs One of the districts of Kaposvár, Toponár, was once a Festetics estate, and many buildings preserve the memory of the family. Currently, the mill building is unused and if not used, this valuable Festetics memento will be lost. The plan […]
Architecture Around the Year
The 120th Anniversary of the Association of Hungarian Architects Text: András Krizsán DLA In 1902, when Cifrapalota, one of the best known buildings of Hungarian Art Nouveau was completed in Kecskemét, twenty-four Hungarian architects decided it was necessary to found an association in order to defend the interests of Hungarian architectural art. Hopes associated with […]
Noble Ambitions, Fine Ideas
The first decade of MÉSZ Text: Ákos Moravánszky 1902, the foundation year of the Hungarian Asssociation of Architects (MÉSZ) was halfway through the peaceful, almost 5 decade long belle époque era between 1867 and 1914. Architects, the majority of whom significantly contributed to te evolution of Budapest into a global capital city, made a decision […]