The Gym Hall of St Margaret Secondary Grammar School Architects: Zsolt Félix, Tamás Fialovszky, Bálint Gulyás, Gergely Kenéz Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Gergely Kenéz Students of the Buda-based St Margaret Secondary Grammar School have recently taken over their new gym hall along Villányi Road. The new building is almost invisible for passers-by in the street, […]
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A Place for Healing
The Extension Project of the Buda Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John Architect: Zsolt István Kiss Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: József Hajdú, András Móri The first stage of the extension and modernization project of the Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John based in Buda has been completed. The new wing of […]
Landscape Projection, Geometric Forms
Kis-Balaton Visitors’ Centre, Fenékpuszta Architect: Zsolt Vasáros Text: Zorán Vukoszávlyev Photos: Bendegúz Takáts, Richárd Tóth The lake named Kis-Balaton is a wide marsh and moor zone of the river Zala, which formerly occupied a large area. Completed this summer, its Visitors’ Centre has architectural gestures that prove belongingness to the landscape. The structure is seated […]
Spare and Playful
Tenement House with 27 Units, KÅ‘bánya Architects: Katalin Vonnák, Györgyi Csontos Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Viktor Rozmann A solid and yet playful residential building has now appeared amongst the old patinated and deteriorating buildings in the industrial zone of KÅ‘bánya. With its four storeys and a length of 90 metres it could also function as […]
Puritan and Accommodating Practicality
The Administrative Building of the Franciscan Secondary Grammar School, Szentendre Architects: János Golda, Melinda HÃves, Erzsébet Mészáros Text: András Hadik Photos: Tamás Szántó Preserved from the era of state socialism, the Franciscan Grammar-School in Szentendre was the single co-ed institution of the few Catholic schools in Hungary. In its first staff not only Franciscan teachers, […]
At the Crossroads of Baroque and Contemporary Art
Humboldt Forum, Berlin Schloss Architect: Franco Stella Text: György SzegÅ‘ Photos: SHF / Giuliani von Viese, Stefan Falk, David von Becker The Schloss boasts of a rich past of 600 years. The Renaissance-style castle was rebuilt as a Baroque one by Andreas Schlüter in 1698, and was completely destroyed in 1945. Its reconstruction today was […]
House along Szinva
BME Residential Design Department Hauszmann Award 2020 Concept and text: Péter Peitl Consultant: Miklós Jancsó DLA The historic core of Miskolc is located at the intersection of two main axes of the city. A significant component of the morphology of the area is the wide main street parallel developed on the east-western axis, just like […]
A World Interwoven with Networks
Barabásilab: Hidden patterns. The language of network thinking Text: Bálint Botzheim An exhibition presenting the research of BarabásiLab for the last 25 years can be seen in the Ludwig Museum. This is the first exhibition in Hungary for BarabásiLab, but they have been present in the international art scene since 2011.
Surviving Utopies
Text: Balázs Rose The ValparaÃso School, as it became known, acquired an international reputation for its radical stance and its commitment to dialogue between architects and other disciplines. Since 1970 the ValparaÃso School has focused much of its research and design activity on the Open City (Ciudad Abierta) project, created by a group of architects, […]
From the Modernism of Miskolc to New York
Viktor BÅ‘hm’s Architecture Text: Éva Lovra An ongoing research project is focussing on finding out the details and career of Viktor BÅ‘hm, Modernist architect and theoretician (Victor Bohm, Miskolc, 1900 – Rockaway, New Jersey(?), 1981). This study is the introduction to the research work, and summarizes in outlines all the milestones of his career from […]
In Praise of the Appropriate Dimensions of a City
The Dialogue Between the Prince, the Architect and the Philosopher Text: Ferenc Hörcher The discourse tells us the legend of ever growing cities. But are small and medum-size towns sentenced actually to death by development which is supposed to be determined historically? In the article below I am trying to phrase the praise of small […]
The Past Year of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Centre
Text: Kornél Almássy Recently, the Hungarian Government has declared the architectural development of the future site of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the Monument Protection Documentation Centre to be an investment of special public interest. This is a big enough change compared to the fact that many people have previously talked about a barely […]