Pest-Buda Hotel, Budapest Architect: Bernadett Hild Csorba Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The oldest hotel building of the country housing today’s Pest-Buda Hotel is found in the neighborhood of the historical quarter of the Castle of Buda, which is a protected site. In 1696 the very first inn combined guesthouse was opened here, only […]
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Living Simplicity
Exhibitions and Events House, Villány Architect: Tamás Getto Text: Gergő Radev Photos: Greypixel The two-storey events building designed by Tamás Getto and his fellow architects is actually a follow-up of the 19th-century cellar system possessed by the Kovács family: it is a purposeful development and transformation of a wine-press. The client and designer architect have […]
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Lookout pavilion, Surrey, England Architect: Giles Miller Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Richard Chivers ‘Perspectives’ is an organic pavilion structure covered with Cedar Shingles, which sits atop the beautiful Surrey Hills at Winterfold, and throws itself evocatively into the vista that has been opened up below. The project aimed to create places of quiet and restful […]
Sign in the Cornfield
Time Box Pavilions, Călugăreni, Romania Architect: Gergely Sági Consultant: Zsolt Vasáros Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Gergely Sági, Zsolt Vasáros Between 2013 and 2015 the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) provided its students with an opportunity to take part in an international cooperative ERASMUS IP project in Transylvania. […]
Interplay between timelines
Cultural Palace, Blaj Architect: Vlad Sebastian Rusu Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Cosmin Dragomir The Cultural Palace was designed in the year 1930 by the Bucharest architect Victor Smigelschi. In the winter of 1995 a violent fire burnt down most of the building, severely damaging the roof and the interior space of the main hall. It […]
Post Scriptum: 90
This is No. 90 of our supplement issue. This attachment has been published with the periodical titled Hungarian Architecture for one and a half decades now as a supplement devoted to architectural theory, and is the one and only periodical continuously published in Hungary which focusses exclusively on theory. At the turn of the millennia […]
Italian Brick in Debrecen
Jost Ferenc (1901–1957) Oeuvre Text: János Jost Within the Modernist trend of Hungarian architecture Ferenc Jost, an architect from Debrecen represented Cubism – his works are also rated as Expressionist pieces. His Cubist style was influenced by Italian architecture before 1935. The most interesting feature of him composed from his own forms is that their […]
Memento
Commemoration apropos of the Gödöllő holiday home complex by Péter Kaffka Text: Endre Prakfalvi Photos: Krisztina Nagy, Krisztina Bélavári – Forster Központ The periodical Hungarian Architecture published a presentation of the two buildings in Gödöllő by architect Péter Kaffka in its issue of June, 1941. Even if only viewed on the photos, there had been […]
Typological Parallels – Parallel Typologies
Structural types of cities in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy between 1867-1918 Text: Éva Lovra To create the harmony of our built heritage and contemporary demands and concept, the definition and survey of the values to be preserved within the processes of urban rehabilitation are not only issues of identity-preservation, but also a task of contemporary urban […]
A Photographer Amongst Architects
Daniel Schwartz and Urban-Think Tank Text: Csilla Herbszt, Bence Komlósi Photos: Daniel Schwartz – U-TT The report below has been inspired by a friendshop of professionals with a past of many years now. One of the partners is Daniel Schwartz, the maker, photographer and researcher of Urban-Think Tank (U-TT). As he had studied anthropology and […]
A Garden of Eden in the Shadow of a Coup d’État
Expo 2016 Gardening World Exhibition Antalya, April 23-October 30th, 2016 Text and photos: Pál Lővei Turkey has been one of the most industrious participant of gardening exhibitions and world exhibitions for about 25 years now. Since then its presentations tend to be of larger and larger scales, and integrate contemporary architecture and design with well-conceived […]
A Dialogue Between Architecture and Interior Architecture
19th Conference on Interior Architecture Text: László Attila Márton The change of the political system which took place more than 25 years ago now also meant a ceasure in every aspect of our lives today, including space, object and image making. The former practices of architect designers’ offices and teams came to an end as […]