Result of the Design Contest In January 2021 Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation published an open design contest for the architectural concept of the main building of Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Somlói Road, Budapest. The primary objective was to create a building (complex) the distant silhouette of which encourages us to visit it, and translates a […]
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Lutheran Church, Budakeszi Architect: László Benczúr Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: József Hajdú The Lutheran Congregation held it very first mass in November 2020 in its newly inaugurated church in Budakeszi. The exterior features simple, purely spatial geometrical components and a rational spatial configuration. A formative element of the composition is the terracotta-coloured oval-shaped plastered prism […]
The Nature Of Time
Water-Powered Saw Mill Visitors’ Centre, Ívó, Seklerland (RO) Architect: Köllő Miklós Text: Anthony Gall Photos: Zoltán-Levente Erős, Vajk-István Szigeti, Miklós Köllő (Larix Studio) In Seklerland, located on the western side of the Madaras Harghita of Madaras, there is a water-powered sawmill with a visitors’ centre besides Ivó stream, in the centre of the village Ivó. […]
Without Fences
Poplar Residential Community, Zsámbék Architects: Dorottya Gőz, Chehadé Abdel Rahim (Amoeba Group) Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Located near Budapest, in Poplar Residential Community 6,000 square metres have been developed to contain13 single-storey detached family hopuses on a flat terrain between 2017 and 2020. Houses of two typologies, or more precisely, with two […]
The Reconstruction of Eisele Mansion
Imre Kertész Institution, Budapest Architect: Tihamér Szalay Interiors: Anett Ficzere Text: György Szegő Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The mansion once owned by József Eisele boiler manufacturer was designed by Guido Hoepfner and Dénes Györgyi in 1910 and it represents a unique character with its stylish details in the history of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture. The house […]
It is Justified to Go to Casinos!
The Reconstruction of the Civilian Casino in Buda Architect: Jassó Sándor Interiors: Radnóczy Eszter Text: Zöldi Anna Photos: Kőrösi Tamás / Esterpartners.com At a hub of the Buda side of the capital city, which is overburdened with traffic but would deserve a better fate, the metaphorical island of aristocratic leisure of bygone days has been […]
New Colour on the Palette of the Budapest Broadway
Hard Rock Hotel, Budapest Architects: László Szász, Erzsébet Hajnády Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Stúdió’100 Ltd was invited to participate in a concept contest in 2008 targeted to start a scheme for a downtown hotel to be constructed on a united lot of three buildings on the corner of Nagymező and Ó Streets in […]
Reflexions
Emerald Residence, Budapest Architects: Alfréd Peschka, Bertalan Nemes, Tamás Csernik Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Baroque-style St Anna’s Church in downtown Pest received a revivalist Renaissance facade in the 1870s when a three-storey convent house and two-storey bazaars were also built next to it. The structure was seriously damaged by bombs demolishing the adjacent […]
Blocks That Have Been Moved
Gedeon Richter Nyrt Community and Office Building, Debrecen Architects: Géza Szőkedencsi, György Töős Text: Dávid Bán Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Launched in 2012 on the margins of Debrecen, the Gedeon Richter Biotechnological Plant represents the latest pharmaceutical technology. Next to the production hall, a laboratory, a building to provide energy and a reception building open on […]
Beneath the Sun Shade Sails
The 2nd Stage of the Market Project in Békásmegyer Architect: Alfréd Peschka Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The reconstruction of the market in Békásmegyer had been on the agenda since 2012, and now, after two years, the local farmers’ market and the community zone behind the hall has also been completed, which is a […]
Water ont he Rock
Guðlaug Bath, Akranes, Iceland Architects: Basalt Architects Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Ragnar Th. Sigurðsson – Arctic Images Langisandur Beach, is a popular outdoor recreation area for locals and a somewhat hidden gem to visitors. The spectacular view from the pool includes the Faxaflói bay and Reykjavík city skyline across the ocean. The goal of the […]
Eldorado
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award Concept and text: Gergely Tasnádi , MOME Consultants: Balázs Marián, Dave Hakkens, Kinga German The award-winning diploma work has a theoretical framework, namely the Spaceship Earth concept by Buckminster Fuller. What he phrased as „spaceship ethics” is a theory according to which „mankind travels on the spaceship named Earth, using energy obtained […]