Apartment Building, Budapest Architect: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás BujnovszkyBuilt on the corner of Székely Bertalan and Szondi streets in Terézváros, the condominium seeks responses to the duality between the inherited cityscape and the livable, inhabitable interior spaces as we interpret them today. Here, the spirit of experimentation has given birth to some […]
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House for the Garden
Family House, Remeteszőlős Architecture: GUBAHÁMORI Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Balázs Danyi It is a curved building that reveals itself mysteriously, step by step. Clean, coherent and continuous, but not fully reveaing itself all at once. GUBAHÁMORI’s design team has designed an out-of-trend, characteristic and yet not “rebellious” residential house for Remeteszőlős. The house balances between […]
In the Move
Car Park, Sopron Architect: Zoltán Tima Text: Levente Móré Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky What sort of architectural gestures can be used to make a certain building type, the car park, which today has a very poor prestige, more acceptable? Zoltán Tima and his colleagues at KÖZTI have answered this question with a building of austere structure, […]
Ready for Change
Budapest ONE Multi-Storey Car Park, Őrmező Architect: Ágnes Streit Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The newest parking garage of Budapest, built in Őrmező, next to the M1-M7 motorways, provides parking lots for tenants of the Budapest ONE office building and for people who arrive in the city. Its unique, unconventional facade design distinguishes it […]
The Madame’s New Dress
La Samaritaine Department Store, Paris Architects: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa – SANAA Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Agence VUʼ To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the famous department store of Paris named La Samaritaine, in 2020, a new outlook has been created. Designed in 1904 by Belgian architect Frantz Jourdain, the riveted steel-framed […]
Utilisation of the Old Market Hall in Pécs
Students’ Plans for the Architectural Education and Training at the University of Pécs Teachers: Gábor Veres, Ders Csaba, András Greg, Tamás Kondor, Balázs Kokas, Andor Krisztián Kovács, Péter Udvardi In 2013, the Urban Research Group was established at the Institute of Architecture of the University of Pécs with the aim to deal with urban research […]
Intermédia Terasz – az első fecske
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Budapest Architecture Film Days 2023
Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Kortárs Építészeti Központ Organized since 2008, the annual film festival of the Centre for Contemporary Architecture is always a celebration: for a few days you can watch films about architecture and the built environment and meet friends in the bustling Toldi cinema. This year was a double birthday: Budapest is 150 […]
Jubilee
20th International Architects’ Congress Text: Orsolya Ware-Nagy Photos: Anna Fábry The twentieth Congress of Architects was all about jubilees: the speakers all had a milestone anniversary, and the event also marked the end of the series of events celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Hungarian Architects’ Association )MÉSZ). The event, organised jointly by Artifex Publishers […]
Old Testament, New Architecture · Judaic-Jewish Roots of Modernism, 1848–2000 Part 2/2
Text: Rudolf Klein Both parts of this essay, published in the journal Hungarian Architecture, discuss links between Judaic-Jewish heritage and 19-20th century architecture. The first part, published in the previous issue, touched upon Judaic aniconism, as expressed in Adolf Loos’ writings and work; mon(othe)ism and Jewish Messianism. It gave a short history of debates about […]
…Yet New and Hungarian
References of Sacrd Buildings by Tamás Nagy Text and photos: Máté Érsek Tamás Nagy’s oeuvre is unavoidable amongst the renowned masters of Hungarian architecture. In addition to his unique formal vocabulary, which combines contemporary forms with historical sensitivity, it is the roots and intellectual foundations of his concepts that make his works outstanding. His buildings […]
Layers of Memory
Expanding the Concept of Monument and Public Space Text: Rebeka Monory Nowadays, public space and memorials are undergoing a sort of conceptual change, which calls for new approaches and paradigm shifts. This is visibly so in the urban planning aspects and guidelines that have been published in recent years, both at in Hungary and abroad: […]