Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Michel Denancé In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Renzo Piano Building Workshop was selected for the project following an invited competition in 2008. The brief […]
Folyóirat
Theatre as a public space
OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 is an international ideas competition, aimed at students and emerging architecture practitioners, and is organised by the Architecture Commission of OISTAT (International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians). The result of the 10th Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 has been announced in Hsinchu City in […]
Green Submarine
Mansion in Budaörs-Farkasrét Architects: Nagy Csilla, Tóth Zoltán Text: Dudics Krisztián Photos: Bujnovszky Tamás The new mansion is an addition to the suburban streetscape featuring traditional detached houses: it is actually located beneath a „green carpet”. Architects with Artgroup, Csilla Nagy and Zoltán Tóth had the task to build it on an almost ideal site […]
Conciliation
Extension of a Detached House, Budapest Architect: Tamás Tomay Text and photos: Rudolf Klein Tamás Tomay is one of the masters, who most typically embody the renaissance of detached houses and blocks projects in Hungary. It does not humbly adapt to its clients, but initiates a dialogue with them. However, there are certain aspects which […]
Shelter in Nature
Safe-House, Transylvania Architects: blipsz!, F.K.M. Műterem Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: István Benedek, Ákos Kun, Zsolt Várday The safe-house network of the region referred to as the Székely Land has been enriched with a new building. Built after former typology designs that were adapted to local needs, this latest addition was constructed in 2017 in Farkaspalló […]
Shelter among the trees
Foliage Hotel, Noszvaj Architect: Gábor Fábián Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Tamás Török / Topogram Embraced by the hills, the foliage hotel was built on the shore of Lake Síkfőkúti after designs by architect Gábor Fábián. Overlooking the lake, the site is a narrow strip of land with trees evoking the atmosphere of a forest – […]
Personal Attachments
Resort Building, Fonyód Architecture and photos: György Dénes Text: Gábor Bártfai-Szabó People know the changes of the seasons, faces, odours, the soil, vegetation, the manmade environment, building materials, where they are brought up. All this lives in our memory as a piece of a mosaic. Architect György Dénes has had his roots in the southern […]
Clever Connection
The Hungarian Pavilion of the Book Fair, 2017, Frankfurt Architects: Attila Róbert Csóka, Szabolcs Molnár, Dávid Smiló Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Balázs Danyi Hungary was represented at the 2017 Book Fair in a pavilion designed by Paradigma Ariadné architects’ studio commissioned by KKM Balassi Institute. The scheme had to meet some basic requirements: it has […]
Organic Society
Remembering Endre Miklóssy, we would like to commemorate his highly significant and versatile works in urbanism as well as his history philosophical interests, especially his writings surveying and analyzing the workings of towns and cities as well as those of society and democracy as such. The essay below was published in a volume in 2006 […]
The Cleansing of the Church
The Formal Changes of Churches and the Interpretation of their Renovations based on the Bible The archetypal form of the Christian church is that of the upper room of the house in Jerusalem in which Jesus sacrificed the paschal lamb before the Jewish Easter festival and consumed it on the last supper. The repetition of […]
Design
The evolution of the concept in the post-industrial era Text: András Szilágyi B. The meaning of industrial design in the strictest sense of the word, and within it, that of object-creation seems to be undergoing changes in the post-industrial period. In the rushing world of the present we have to follow and keep track of […]
Architecture copy paste
Felix Madrazo and Winy Maas: Copy Paste. The Badass Architectural Copy Guide Text: Péter Debreczeni The unique nature of design is a priority, and there is a wide variety of tools and devices that can be used to achieve this goal. As it is quite a difficult task to find out something entirely individual, and […]