Spaces and Events

Children’s Camp, Balatonfenyves Architect: György Dénes Text: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó Photos: György Dénes The local government of Budapest District II made a decision to modernize its existing children’s camp. The outdated barracks thus should be replaced by something new – this is as far as the process reached soon to be followed by a stage to […]

Aquaculture and Modernism

Árpád Open-air Baths, Csillaghegy Architect: Márta Németh Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: József Hajdú After a long period of instability and making several compromises, the new building of Árpád Open-Air Baths complex was opened to the public. The curing effects of the springs in Csillaghegy had already been obvious for the Romans, who supplied water to […]

From time to time

Market and Community Zone, Békásmegyer Architect: Alfréd Peschla Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Located at the northern end of Buda, the market opened in the early 1980s in a spacious housing estate has now received a new hall and next year it is going to be extended with a community space right behind it. […]

Csomópontok

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Média Építészeti Díja 2019

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A Shell-Shaped Framework

The Look-Out on Lila Hill Re-Opened Architect: József Koller Text: Anett Mizsei, Vilmos Katona Photos: József Hajdú The tower built for geodesic measurings was built on top of the 313 metre hill in 1977 and has been now facelifted after a long period of isolation to welcome visitors in safety. As a result of the […]

Prisms at the Junction of the Rivers Danube and Sava

Reconstruction of Contemporary Arts Museum, Belgrade Architects: Dejan Todorovic (2017), Ivan Antić, Ivanka Raspopović (1965) Text: Éva Lovra Photos: Éva Lovra, Bojana Janjic / MSUB The awards ceremony of the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2019 was held in Barcelone on May 7th with the opening of the exhibition titled -What’s Old, What’s New. […]

Global Village, Creative City

Thoughts on a new column Text: Dr. Zoltán Lantos / iASK The new topic-related column Creative Cities is devoted to the initiatives with the scales of regions and settlements that target to develop the individual cities and towns economically, socially and culturally with the means of science and arts, including urbanistic design and the social […]

The Significance of High-Standard Architecture

Origen Festival, Switzerland Text and photos: Bálint Rigó Located in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, Origen festival has been held every year at a mountain pass since 2006. The very first professional facility of a theatre, it has also been continuously an initiative targeted to salvage culture and civilisation. In 2017 the unique venue of […]

Spatial Dramaturgy

Ideas in the Wake of a Volume Text: Tamás Kiss There is a topic in architecture which is the most important for me of all: it is that of architectural space. The way it is structured, the principles qlong which it evolves are all puzzles to be solved. This may be one of the reasons […]

Spatial Dramaturgy

Ideas in the wake of a volume Holger Kleine: Raumdramaturgie: Typologie und Inszenierung von Innenräumen Birkhaeuser Verlag, Basel, 2018 Text and photos: Zsolt Gunther There is a topic in architecture which is the most important for me of all: it is that of architectural space. The way it is structured, the principles qlong which it […]

Timeless and Changing Values

On the 50th Anniversary of the Culture Centre in Orgovány Text: Mónika Bordás In 2019 we are celebrating the culture centre of Orgovány on its milestone 50th anniversary of its inauguration with a variety of events. Commemoration is both a cheerful and an unhappy one now. We are elated because the 50th anniversary is always […]