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It is not easy to create anything of high standards in the genre of detached family houses. Many people explain it away with a lack of money that in Hungary there are lots of low-standard ones, but sometimes it turns out that excellent houses can be built with inventive, economical, disciplined approach and a lot of work, even with a modest budget.

By the time Lamping József started to design the film palace in Kaposvár, he had obviously had studied bountiful of European and Hungarian examples. Thanks to this as well as his talents, he created one of the most representative public buildings in the country in a mature Art Deco style. This house mastered everything, both inside and outside…

As a result of the multitude of children and rising standards of expectations, Szigetszentmiklós has grown out of its existing cultural and community institutions and facilities. When the local government published a new tender for a would-be education and sports complex, they did not mean to insert it into the fabric of the town at the cost…

Specialized in turning and metal polishing, the Mika family immigrated here from Moravia and had their workshop on the edge of the Jewish quarter of Pest at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1909 Tivadar Mika had a house built there in the style of Parisian Art Nouveau commissioning architect Jenő Marton to design a three-storey residential…

Eastern Promises conveys a representative cross-section of architectural developments in this region, ranging from the stars of Japanese architecture and the Chinese bureaus, which are slowly but surely shifting into the spotlight since the late 1990s, to young, up-and-coming architects, whose work is being presented in this way for…

The large-scale development project of the Hauptbahnhof Wien is a spectacular example of European trends. The function of the former main railway stations is taken over by the transitory ones, as it is required by contemporary accelerated lifestyle and the modernization of the railway networks accordingly in its wake.

Opened in April, 2013 the new Opera House of Linz in Upper Austria is not only outstanding and excellent in its urban context because of its function, but also of its orientation, location and architectural qualities. After dropping numerous ideas and venues, in 2004 the site next to Volksgarten was chosen for construction.

Inaugurated recently, the museum of Jewish history in Warsaw was designed by a Finnish architect, Rainer Mahlamäki. It faces the monument erected in 1948 to honour the ghetto revolt of 1943, joining it to make an integral spiritual – and to some extent also formal – unity on the site of the former ghetto, in the fabric of Warsaw made up of mainly…

It is the third year now that the Creative Workshop named dAM has been organized with the participation of young architects from the city. Registered in 2012 as the Creative Worskhop Architects’ Association, it was targeted to support and assist the continuous in-service training of architects and those interested in architecture living and working…

My diploma design is meant for my hometown, Alsónémedi to salvage at least partially the buildings of the former stationery factory in the centre standing vacant now for more than a decade. now. My plan is to clad this fragment of the past in a new, yet recognizable attire by retaining some parts of the existing building stock within the framework of…

The Hungarian government announced the launch of the National Heritage Program in 1998. In ten years an amount of roughly 7,5 million dollars was spent on restoring approximately 300 architectural monuments related to Hungarian cultural history located outside of the current borders of the country. Subsidies were mainly directed towards…

Dinning with prophets and scratching revolution as a socialist Dürer, Béla Kondor is still a legendary artist and is considered as one of the most significant artists of the Kádár era. Based on the legendary and the works left behind, the figure of an „uomo universale”, a modern Leonardo da Vinci was outlined in the art history and incommon knowledge.