a&o Hostel, Budapest Architect: László Mikó Text: Sándor Csontó Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Located in a dense urban fabric, on the corner of two streets named Dob Street and Csengery Street, in a new building the first Budapest-based unit of a&o Hotels has been opened. The location of the structure is a favourable one from various […]
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An Imperial Mansion Converted into a Luxury Hotel
Áurea Ana Palace Hotel, Budapest Architect: Ádám Sylvester Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Two buildings built in the 19th century in Budapest have woken up from their Cinderella dreams and are reborn in their original glory now. It is true that this is the end of a long and laboursome process with the result […]
Salvaging the Salvageable
Lónyay-Hatvani Mansion, Budapest Architect: Péter Bordás Text: Gábor Nagy Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In 1872, Count Menyhért Lónyai has this mansion built as his family home after designs by Miklós Ybl on the Castle Hill in Buda. In 1915, Baron Lajos Hatvany, the world-famous art collector purchased the building which was entirely demolished in 1945 by […]
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Procuratie Vecchie, Venice, Piazza San Marco Architect: David Chipperfield Text: György Szegő Photos: Hanna Szegő, Alessandra Chemollo Piazza San Marco is one of the most recognisable squares in the world and an extraordinary and explicit demonstration of ordered public space. The Procuratie Vecchie was developed along the entire north side of the square in the […]
Facelifting Városmajor
Results of the Landscape Design Competition Concept and text: OpenSpace Ltd., Deichler Jakab Studio Budapest Development Centre Nonprofit Co. has published an open landscape design tender to renew Városmajor. The criteria were to have a modern development of a landscaped public park in line with the era and the spirit of liveable sustainable cities with […]
In the Wake of an Architectural Relationship
Parallels of the Airports in Budaörs and Helsinki-Malmi Text: Péter Csengel, Ibolya Csengel-Plank Two of the old airports of Europe exist even today, and even though they are far away from each other, one being in Helsinki, the other in Budapest, they show some striking similarities. Their horizontal plans, the centrally positioned circular traffic control […]
Ödön Lechner’s „Offices”
Historical Reconstruction Based on Cash Tabs Text: Eszter Baldavári The summer of 2021 saw the start of a large-scale digitization and collection handling project in the Museum of Hungarian Architecture and the Documentation Centre of Monument Protection. Besides the digital copying of approximately 4,000 items of the museum department, including plans, photographs, documents, the staff […]
Act Global
Budapest Architecture Films Festival 2022 Text: Mária Tatai The well-know „think global, act local” slogan could be made more compelling, and this gesture attracts attention which is fully justified. This year’s Budapest Architecture Films Festival makes us rethink and revise with its brief motto. It is true that we can do the most for our […]
Problematic Situations in Space
The spatial standards of shelters for the homeless in Kőbánya Text and photos: Bence Bene The integration of homeless people is of primary importance. The main goal of institutions catering and caring for the homeless should be not only to provide a minimal protective network but also to integrate them socially and thus into the […]
Radical Modesty
Pierre Chabard: Utilitas, Firmitas, Austeritas Text: Márk Váncza The subject of this review was published in one of the highest standard and formative journal of architectural theory today titled Log Magazine, which was founded by Cynthia Davidson, in a thematic issue focusing on geometry (Log Magazine No. 43, 2018 Summer). The author, Pierre Chabard French […]
Symmetry in Architecture
Chapters of an Endless Narrative Terc Publisher, 2021, edited by Vilmos Katona Text: Bálint Botzheim The book titled Symmetry in Architecture has been published as a stop-gap publication. The current editor in chief, Vilmos Katona made a selection of articles from the volumes of the journal Symmetry: Culture and Science spanning more than 30 years. […]
The City and Parasitic Edifices
Concept: Byron Cadena, Aryo Dhaneswara, Andrew Saltzman Text: Eszter Götz Students of the master course with the IAAC (Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) in Barcelona, Byron Cadena, Aryo Dhaneswara and Andrew Saltzman revived the concept of parasitic architecture born at the turn of the millennia in their project in 2019/2020, which means that posterior […]