Oncoradiology Centre, Debrecen Architect: Péter Kovács Text: András Bán Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Both the city and university of Debrecen appreciate local talents, thus it was not the first commission that Péter Kovács received in the campus project. When designing the Oncoradiology Centre he had to consider the former character of the campus of the Medical […]
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Confidence Placed in Landscape
Dwelling-house, Bratislava-Čunovo Architects: Peter Jurkovič, Lukáš Kordík, Števo Polakovič Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Peter Jurkovič There are certain principles encoded in traditional folk architecture, verified by ages and still relevant. Especially in the context of the need to reduce our ecological footprint and energy waste. Bigger is not always better! Simple buildings didn’t fight with […]
Museum without Artefacts
Digital Museum, Pecica, Romania Architect: Claudiu Ionescu Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Bogdan Iorgovan The building represents Romania’s first permanent digital museum. Inside visitors can virtually explore art and artefact collections from around the world through the use of the latest technology in 3D video projections, 3D screens, touchscreens and so on. A big advantage is […]
Ybl Castle in the shade of Modernization
Wenckheim Castle in Szabadkígyós Architect: László Földes Text: Marianna Berényi Photos: Földes és Társai Építésziroda Built after large-scale designs by Miklós Ybl between 1875 and 1879, Wenckheim Castle in Szabadkígyós ranked amongst the most modern ones in Hungary then. Clad in historicising style, especially in that of German Neo-Renaissance, this complex had everything a provincial […]
Fleeing into Community
Architecture/education 2014, the Conference of MMA and MÉSZ, 2014 June 11 Text and photos: Dominika Vámos The Hungarian Academy of Arts and the Association of Hungarian Architects organized a conference early this summer titled „Architecture/education 2014” which has proven to be surprisingly dynamic, spectacular and cheerful. This is most probably the result of an efficient […]
Vizek, fények, színek
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The Metropolis Experiment
Vienna and the 1873 World Exhibition Photos: Wien Museum After “The struggle for the city”, a major exhibition on politics, art and everyday life around 1930, Wien Museum presents another panoramic view of an era. This time, the spotlight is trained on the years around 1870, a crucial transformative phase in Vienna’s development towards becoming […]
Konstantin Grcic
Panorama, Vitra Design Museum, 22. 03. – 14. 09. 2014 Photos: Vitra, AndreaF ábián Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential designers of our time. Serious and functional, unwieldy and occasionally disconcerting, his works combine an industrial aesthetic with experimental, artistic elements. Many of Grcic’s creations, such as »Chair_One« (2004) or the »Mayday« lamp […]
Egy szakma arcképe
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Contemporary Architecture in Rome
Tra/Between Art and Architecture, Rome, MAXXI, 17 April 2014 – 21 September 2014 Two exhibitions in one: Roma Interrotta and Piero Sartogo and the Artists, united by a common title that sums up the sprit both shows: TRA/BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE. The exhibition opens at the MAXXI on 17 April (through 21 September 2014), in […]
Ybl-reneszánsz
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Solar Decathlon 2014
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