Book Launch FUGA Budapest Architecture Center, 9 May 2015 On May 9 2015 the 4th edition in the Landscape Architecture Europe book series will be presented in Budapest. The book launch takes place at FUGA – Center for Architecture. Programme Welcome 14.30h Coffee 15.00h Kathryn Moore (LAE board) Lectures 15.10h Lisa Diedrich, chief editor of […]
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Péter Bácsay Exhibition Pannonhalma Abbey Museum, 23 May – 30 September 2015 Opening: 23 May 2015, 4 p.m. Opening speech by György Szemadán painter, writer Venue: Pannonhalma Abbey Museum 9090 Pannonhalma, Mátyás király u. 1-3.
Europa Nostra Awards 2015
The European Commission and Europa Nostra have revealed in Brussels / The Hague (14 April 2015) the winners of the 2015 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, considered Europe’s most prestigious prize in the heritage field. The 28 award winners, selected from 263 applications submitted by organisations and individuals from 29 […]
National Awards and Prizes
March 15th, 2015 On March 15th, our national holiday, János Áder, the President of Hungary presented national awards and prizes based on the recommendations of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Prime which were handed over by János Lázár, the minister in charge of all the ministries. Most of the creative individuals who received such recognitions on […]
Architecture Around the World
Kossuth Prize for Gábor Bachman Text: József Készman Individuals awarded prizes in the category of artistic creativity received their recognitions in the Houses of Parliament on March 15th. Amongst high-ranking officials representing the Hungarian state, Gábor Bachman appeared as a characteristic and peculiar punk-rock figure. The official recognition and appreciation of both his character and […]
In memoriam Frei Otto (1925–2015)
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Functions in Change
12th International Congress of Architects Text: Marianna Berényi Photos: János Szentiváni ‘Architecture for Architecture’ was the slogan of the 12th International Congress of Architects taking place on March 7th 2015 in the Conference hall of Várkert Bazaar in the Buda Castle district of Budapest. Some of the lectures delivered here outlined a kind of architecture […]
Facing the Feathered Lizard
Pécsinger Vinery, Győrújbarát Architect: Dezső Ekler Text: János Golda Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The first versions of designs for the rape-juice plant complex date from 2011 featuring the same topic: the extensive vineyard made up of endless parallel rows of vines are interspersed with lanes of geometrically trimmed lines of trees crowned with rectangular foliages that […]
Adjustment in the Past, Present and Future Tenses
Students’ Hostel, Graphisoft Park, Budapest Architects: András Vikár, István Lukács, Árpád Gál, Tamás Bencsik Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky A new unit complementing the multi-colour complex of Graphisoft Park which is integral in its architectural vocabulary, the Students’ Hostel of the International Business School projects the continuation of the high-standard architecture of the park. […]
Etudes composed on an Office Block
K4 Office Centre, Budapest Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Seeing the first sweepingly dynamic reception, one has the impression that the newly built office block at the junction of Váci and Dózsa György roads does not take away anything but adds to the site, self-evidently re-phrasing the square by […]
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
A Sports Hall on St Martin’s Hill Architect: Róbert Gutowski Text: Dominika Vámos Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The new sports hall of the Benedictine monastic community was opened in autumn 2014. Originally built in 1942, the secondary grammar school has acquired its present-day design as an organic continuation of the old complex of the abbey. In […]
Higher and Higher All the Time
Look-Out on Pilis-tető Architect: József Koller Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: József Hajdú The path leading to the highest point of the Pilis Hills has long been avoided by those who love hiking in the forests even if tourist maps of the region published meanwhile included it nonstop. As late as the mid-1990s there had been […]