The House of Music, Hungary, Budapest Architect: Sou Fujimoto Text: György Szegő Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Out of the 168 entries submitted for the international contest for the designs of the House of Music the one now actually realized excelled with its philosophy eliminating the borders between the natural and artificial environment. The Budapest project had […]
2022
Children-Like Dynamism
Bárányfelhő Calvinist Kindergarten, Budapest Architects: Krisztián Olbert, Ádám Lendvay, Géza Bujdosó Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: József Hajdú The Calvinist Congregation of Svábhegy have been planning to have their own kindergarten built since 2015, which was actually constructed by integrating sites next to the church and parish. The architectural concept of Bárányfelhő („Cirrocumulus”) Calvinist Kindergarten was […]
Well-Identified New Function
IN-Budapest Students’ Apartment Block Architect: Bence Turányi Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Batár The first stage of the rehab of a 122-year-old block has been completed in Rottenbiller Street: a multi-storey industrial building in the courtile has been converted into a contemporary apartment hotel. The history of the real estate goes back to the 1870s, […]
Hidden Symbiosis
Benczúr 11 Office and Residential Block, Budapest Architects: Péter Nagy, Tamás Németh Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Réthey-Prikkel One of the greatest values of Budapest is its integral revivalist style cityscape coupled with a varied structure and fabric. More often than not, these values, however, are also serious challenges for contemporary architects that impose limitations […]
Elegant Dissonance
Residential Bulding, Budapest, Ferencváros Architects: Tibor Dékány, Ádám Hatvani Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Zsolt Hlinka A few years ago a two-storey house built in Ferencváros (Budapest) in 1860 with a character in the revivalist Classical style was demolished to be replaced by a 8 storey residential building containing 78 units, a 3-storey underground car park […]
Twilight in a Nutshell
A15 Mansion, Budapest Architects: Katalin Fazekas, Árpád Vilics Text: Péter Kronavetter Photos: Balázs Danyi With special attention to details and high standards, Kettőpera („2/a”) Stúdió designed a mansion located in the Buda Hills as a stylish and yet casual and sophisticated structure impressing us as if we were looking at icons of bygone times in […]
Memorial Site to honor Ferenc Rákóczi II
The Reconstruction of the Zeleméry-Rákóczi Castle, Borsi Architects: Péter Pásztor, Zoltán Wittinger Text and photos: József Sebestyén Located in Borsi in Sovakia, near Sátoraljaújhely, there is the Zeleméry-Rákóczi Castle built from the 1560s on, which has had lots of owners during its history. Its most famous resident, Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II was born in this […]
United Arab World Exhibition
Expo 2020 Dubai, 2021–2022 Text and photos: Pál Lővei Scheduled for the winter of 2020/2021, and referred to as the Expo2020 ever since, this exhibition had to be postponed a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is undoubtedly the best organised and integrated and, besides that of Seville, also the highest-ranking category of the […]
A Gallery in the Casemates
Neue Galerie, Wiener Neustadt, Austria Architects: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović Text: Eszter Götz Photos: David Schreyer The project is a result of a competition held in 2016 that set the task of making the casemates, an ammunition storage structure of the medieval fortress accessible to the general public in the form of a new […]
The Strategy of the Complex Reconstruction of the Royal Palace in Buda
Concept and text: Robert Gutowski Client: Várkapitányság Nonprofit Ltd. The Castle Hill and Royal Palace of Buda are a site and memorial of historic and symbolic significance of Hungarian national identity. The place itself is a nationally significant historic monument with regard to Hungary’s past and national belongingness: it is a protected building, a highly […]
Brave New World
The Town of Coal, Iron and Glass: Salgótarján Text: Tamás Dévényi As late as 1945, Salgótarján was on the verge of becoming a town, buti t had an industry of national significance. The new system saw an enemy in the classic town with a middle-class background, which made a step 1950: as the embodiment of […]
The Heritage of the Late Modern Hotel Architecture at Lake Balaton
Evaluation Beyond Nostalgy Text: Júlia Böröndy With the relieve after 1956, the tourism of Hungary inculding Lake Balaton, could revive. The expansion of accommodation capacity was a clear response to the needs of the growing holiday crowd, which also involved the construction of new hotels. The buildings, which were considered modern at the time, are […]