Millenáris Velodrom – competition

The “National Sport Centres” invites applications for a world-class design of a new Velodrome for the National Olympic Centre.

Deadline for the application: 16 December 2013
More information: www.mnsk.hu

Sopron, Synagogue in Paprét – competition

The aim of the brainstorming competition is to create new connections and functions around the synagogue according to the revitalization of the Castle District and to find the suitable function for the building itself with respect for its value.
The competition organized by the Government of Sopron, Hungary.

Architecture Media Awards 2013

Winners of the Architecture Media Awards 2013: Architecture Media Awards in Building category: Esterházy Palace, Fertőd – Event Center, Puppet Show, Orange House, Water Tower reconstruction – architect: Csaba Molnár; Architecture Media Awards in Design category: Utilization of the flood basin at Tivadar – Noémi Varga diploma work (MOME)

World Architecutre Day in the Architects’ House 2013

The first Monday of October is traditionally about architecture all over the world. The UIA, as the international association of architects schedulled the world day of the profession for this day. The Association of Hungarian Architects has organised a variety of programmes for this year on the occasion to celebrate World Architecture Day.

Power Beneath the Crust

Mining activities going on for fifty years in Kemenes resulted in huge scars on the crater and thus exposed the processes and layers of ancient volcanic activities creating a brand-new texture visually and geologically. This in fact inspired volcanologist Dr. Szabolcs Harangi to a large-scale innovative development for tourism simultaneously…

Global Locality

It is quite a while since I’ve been of the opinion that the way to understanding a work of art leads us through getting to know the circumstances of its creation as well as the personality of its author or artist rather than via a kind of comparative description and categorization of the art piece itself. As a result of his Erasmus activities in Oulu…

Green ToolBar

The Green House integrates into the series of green office blocks built recently that do not feature yet the whole toolbar of sustainable architecture and are only modestly innovative: they were designed to include just as much as needed in order to be rated as top-end real estates in the market and only what is profitable PR-wise.

In Scale without Scales

Erected on the campus of the university of Debrecen, the new demonstration centre targets at the tangible, plain and reasonable with its proportions, whilst its forms represent the abstract, scientific and guessable. Human-scale proportions are matched with the spirit of research here. The perfect cube form as a base body was almost…

A Dynamic Formula – With Positive Energies

Although the values of contemporary architecture tend to remain invisible or alien to the wide public, the office block in Medve Street is sure to attract the attention of passers-by. This pile of container-size glass boxes probably reminds the non-professionals of children’s toys made of lego or wooden bricks rather than of any work of contemporary…

The Festival of Waters

Blue Planet, the largest aquarium of Denmark was completed this March. Its architectural design is based on a symbol, but goes far beyond this: presented as a form of a whirlpool, it also expresses the complex systen of correlations between 21st-century civilisation and water. 3XN, a Danish team of architects made a design of a spiral shaping…

The New-discovered Land of Vends

The building housing Tea-House now used to be a pub as well as a residential building later on functioning as a school and a culture centre. As even rabbits were kept and mushrooms were grown here, the building underwent utmost deterioration. The local community decided to salvage the building. This complex development involves…

The Visible History of Time

Along the stairs that wind up Castle Hill in Buda, there is a small residential building standing in ruins for a long time. The local government of the Buda Castle District worked out a reconstruction project for this protected historic monument after several years’ preparation and thorough research as for the protection of listed buildings…