Mesevár Kindergarten, Monor Architect: István Murka Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: József Hajdú Base in Monor, the kindergarten named Mesevár is located on the imaginary borderline between a street of detached family houses and the main street lined with services. The basic concept was to create a single-storey public building which the environment can tolerate quite […]
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The Governor’s Elegance Reloaded
The Restoration Project of the Railway Station Building in Kenderes Architect: Ferenc Pálinkás Text: Péter Garai Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Although it was rendered as superfluous for the operations of the railway here, yet another railway station building has survived the threat of deterioration: it is the formerly almost unknown Kenderes now joins the „company” of […]
It is Easier Together
Loffice, Budapest Architect: Ádám Paládi Kovács Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The concept of co-working space, which is a communal office, still rates as an innovative solution in the office market. There is a demand for a large number of them, and yet only a few exist as of today. What is an ultimately […]
The Moment of Integration
Multifunctional Sport and Events Hall, Hatvan Architects: Marcel Ferencz, György Détári Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In 2012 ideas about the future of the rust zone wedged between Óhatvan and Újhatvan as well as about that of the handball pitch planned to be built there started to formulate. Designers from Napur Architect worked out […]
A Tame Centaur
Centre for Amplio Automatika, Székesfehérvár Architects: Bence Turányi, Mátyás Papp Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Zsolt Batár The company named Amplio has now a new building which appears somewhat enigmatic at first sight: on one end, it is a longish prism, clad in anthracyte grey trapezoid sheet, while on the other end it is a public […]
Information as an undulation
Office building, Paderborn Architect: Árpád Ferdinánd Text: Árpád Ferdinánd Photos: Dirk Heine, Jürgen Wegener Paderborn is the oldest town in East Westphalia (Germany), it was already an important transport hub in the 8th century. Architect Árpád Ferdinánd received the assignment to design the new IT Headquarters of the Argali Real Estate Gmbh in Paderborn as a major regional […]
A House in the Orchard on Mirror Hill
Detached House, Törökbálint Architects: László Kalmár, Péter Kronavetter, Zsolt Zsuffa Text: Márton Hakkel Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Surveying the designs of the family house in Törökbálint one notices at first sight that it is a genuinely crystallized nicely crafted project. Technically, the building honestly embodies what Hungarian building industry can achieve at its best in this […]
Shelter from a Former American Camp
Participatory Student Building Project, Mannheim Architects: Atelier U20 Text: György Szegő Photos: Yannick Wegner Due to bureaucratic procedures, refugees arriving in Germany are condemned to sustain a long period of passiveness. In the refugee camp on the location of the former American Spinelli Barracks in Mannheim, they are well provided with the bare essentials, but […]
Thermal Baths in Homoród
BME Diploma Work, 2020 Concept and text: László Bedő Tutor: Miklós Vannay DLA Székelyföld, the land of the Seklers is primarily famous for its cold and mesothermal springs of curative effects. According to surveys, one third of the mineral water stock of Europe is found in this region, more precisely in Transylvania. The design site […]
From the Babbling Séd to Shanghai
Geographical and Architectural Links between Veszprém and China Text: Eszter Baldavári The book born thanks to the cooperation between the Hungarian Consulate in Shanghai and the Association of Hungarian Architects, which was based on a manuscript written by the author of this study, is about the oeuvre of Károly Gonda, a Shanghai-based Hungarian architect, and […]
Gilvánfa
Design Methods of Segregate Communal Architecture Text: Kata Varjú One of the most serious global and social local issues in Hungary at present are segregation and the deepening social gaps along with it. The impacts affecting a certain society are associated with almost every competencies of every single field of science. This is why the […]
Swedish Architecture and Hungarian Immigrants in the 20th Century
Details of the Activities of Hungarian Immigrant Architects in Sweden Text: András Hadik This study was written to survey the careers of Hungarian-born architects who immigrated to Sweden during World War II or in the post-war era, and produced the majority of their oeuvre there. The author reveals less known aspects of Hungarian immigrant architects […]