Footsal Hall of Aramis Sports Club, Budaörs Architect: Gábor Sajtos Text: Zsolt Vékony Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky An exciting creation has grown out of a hillside in Budaörs last year: the sports hall used by Aramis SE footsal team and Gyula Illyés Secondary Grammar School has evolved into a symbol of the city owing to its […]
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Schools on the Frontier
The Gym Hall of the Dominican Sisters’ School, Kőszeg Architects: István Bartók, Péter Fejérdy Text: György Major Photos: Balázs Danyi Founded in 1868, the girls’ school of the Dominican nuns in Kőszeg has given a Catholicism spirited co-ed from kindergarten to mature exams since its restart at the time of the change of the political […]
New Definition
Central Library, Helsinki Architects: ALA Architects Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tuomas Uusheimo The new Central Library of Helsinki (FI) occupies a hugely significant site in the city: facing the steps of the Finnish parliament building, the Eduskuntatalo across the Kansalaistori square, a public space flanked by major civic institutions. The siting of Oodi was chosen […]
One More Step Forward
A Four-Flat Tenement Block, Budapest, Római Riverbank Architects: Gergő Turi Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: György Dénes Situated near the Danube bank in Buda, this new tenement block presents the interior relations of its four apartments as well as the architectural image of its environments with highly sculpturesque means. The architectural task here was to design […]
The Simple House
Dwelling House, Csömör Architects: Lukács Szederkényi, Dénes Emil Ghyczy Text: Anna Zsoldos Photos: András Zoltai This house in Csömör was built for a young married couple with one child. The best known work by the designers of AU Workshop is the frequently mentioned timber structure detached house built in Nagykovácsi. Their brandmark is not only […]
Táncoló ház Prágában
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Török Ferenc templomai
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Lépések a jelenlét építészete felé
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Mies van der Rohe
The New National Gallery and Old Museum in Berlin Text: Hannes Böhringer Hungarian translation: J. A. Tillmann The following study compares the building of the new National Gallery in Berlin, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1968, with the previous museum buildings of the Museuminsel in Berlin. The author analyses the museum’s genre as […]
Stair-Cases
Text: Ákos Moravánszky Architecture starts with the making of a horizontal plane. The archetypical ancient hut was the next step, having a fireplace on this horizontal surface as well as defending, covering and surrounding it. According to Gottfried Semper German architect and theoretician the terrace shovelled on the ground from the soil was the foundation […]
A Vertical World
New Faces of Budapest, Bratislava and Belgrade Text: Éva Lovra Budapest, Bratislava and Belgrade are ambitious capitals that are on the way or ambition to become metropolises the dynamics of development of which tends to halt at a certain stage and then gets a new momentum in a way slightly alien from their landscape, natural […]
Co-Housing
Innovative Architectural Solutions of Contemporary Urban Communal Residential Buildings Text: Julianna Szabó, Annamária Babos Photos: Julianna Szabó Co-housing developments all over the world may be categorized according to various aspects: there are urban and rural communities, new constructions and remodelled real estates. In the tiniest ones there is only one room for each resident, whilst […]