Louis Kahn started working on the designs of the New York-based park devoted to the memory of President Roosevelt about forty years ago. A year later he died, and thus the concept remained in blueprint and unfinished. Finally, the foundation stone was laid in 2010 and the Four Freedoms Park was inaugurated in October, 2012…
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The Complex Experience of Winery
A real gem of wineries owned by Hungarians in the Hegyalja region, Holdvölgy in Mád designed by Péter Bordás is to be completed to its tiniest details by next March. Bord Architects Studio integrated local building materials and revived economical architectural traditions with due attention to the technologically precisely regulated spaces…
The Genius of the North and the South in Tirol
Inaugurated this year, it is promoted on the worldwide net with this slogan: „the first museum ever along the Italian highways”. It has a single unsurpassable architectural prototype: the first highway-church, which is a fantastic organic-Modernist architecture by Giovanni Michelucci along Autostrada del Sole (1964). This latter building…
Values Surrounded
In 2012 two large-scale projects were realised after designs by Toya Design architects in Poznań. Both deal with the protection and salvation of architectural heritages as well as with their adaptation to meet functional demands and the expectations of recipients. Whilst remodelling ZAMEK Culture Centre the Revivalist Romanesque-style…
Architects on the Two Poles
Spectacular structures such as the European Central Bank in Frankfurt/Main, the Rolex Learning Center at the E´cole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) in Lausanne, and the new Louvre Museum in the French town of Lens would not be possible without the engineers “behind the scenes”. Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann…
Adalberto Libera
The exhibition offers a fresh point of view of the work of this great modern architect; the curator, architect Nicola Di Battista, has chosen to examine Libera’s work through the selection of some of his most significant projects. Surprisingly little-known, the aim is revise the interpretation of the processes forming his style.
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) is world famous to this day as a painter of exceptional portraits and history paintings. Yet there was another subject that also preoccupied him throughout his career: landscape. The Dutch painter addressed himself to this theme not so much in painting, but all the more intensively…
Lakatlan Budapest
Lakatlan aims at finding solutions to the emerging problem of vacant properties in our cities. We investigate causes and look for answers: with the help of international and local experts, and in the frame of workshops, lectures, discussions, we examine a diversity approaches, methods and best practices. This website operates as…
The Way We Live
The Way We Live
Photo exhibition about the Hungarian housing stock
Photos by János Szentiváni
More information: www.lakasepitesert.hu and www.igylakunk.hu
De la Motte – Beer Palace
The Gyula Forster National Centre for Cultural Heritage Management (Forster Centre for short) is the continuation of the former National Office for Cultural Heritage (KÖH), which was reorganized and renamed in September 2012. The National Trust for State-owned Historic Monuments has also been merged into the Forster Centre.
Ephemeral Architecture in Central-Eastern Europe
Ephemeral Architecture in Central-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, Budapest, 28-29th November 2013
A two days conference organized by The Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with CentrArt Association…
Nice, Good or Interesting – Photo Competition
Photo competition of the Department of Finance of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Categories:
1) BME as a university
2) The life of the Department
3) Visualization of actual topics in finance and economics