Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation on the public and private space…
Zero CO2 Sustainable Architecture conference held on 4th March was organized by UIA (the International Union of Architects) in Budapest. Examples came true were presented.Projects presented among others: Unilever House, Hamburg; Power Tower, Linz; Green Home Offices, Budapest (LEED Platinum Pre-certified).
SketchChair started as a collaboration between Greg Saul and the JST ERATO Igarashi Design UI Project in Tokyo. The initial iteration of the system found overwhelming interest from both the academic community as well as the general public, and was presented at several conferences and design events. The SketchChair software allows anybody to take part in the process…
Through the travelling photo exhibition “Masters of European Secession – Barcelona – Brussels – Budapest”, the secession goes around the three B-cities, from January. In each city, 50 large, weather-resistant panels will be displayed on a special ‘venue’: on the fence of a building of some special importance.
Through his houses in southern California Richard Neutra became one of the most important architects of “classical Modernism”. He combined variable spatial configurations with large glass fronts to create open ensembles, embedded in the surroundings. In his final creative years Neutra also completed a number of fascinating buildings in Europe.
Európai Építészetpolitikai Fórum
Európa – Duna – Víz • Innováció és fenntarthatóság
Budapesti Nemzetközi Konferencia
2011. május 4-7.
Újvárosháza Díszterem, Budapest V. Váci utca 62-64. II. emelet
Out now: Hungarian Architecture 2011/1
Reconstruction in Felsőzsolca, ECC Pécs – Assessment, Kodály Centre, Pécs, BME Building Q, Budapest Lágymányos, Office Block, Budapest, No. 14 Szabadság Square, Food Store, Budapest, Tűzoltó Street, The Metamorphosis of a Manor
The rooms we learn and teach in have hardly changed over the past hundred years. The classroom is still 9 metres x 7 metres in size and the primary location for lessons that are held in an hourly cycle — even though teachers and architects agree that contemporary teaching methods are far more varied and require appropriately flexible types of classroom.
House over house, city over city, new construction type
Ten years after the death of one of the most significant and controversial Czechoslovakian architects the CCEA in cooperation with the National Museum present the public with his project of the seat of the Federal Assembly as well as his interest in macrostructures.
Finnagora, the culture and science institute of Finland in Budapest and Hungarian architecture and design magazine hg.hu is pleased to announce the launch of a competition for Hungarian and Finnish students to design a public art piece with the innovative and creative use of wood.
Submission deadline: 25 March 2011
The Possibities of Budapest in the Danube Strategy
Value-based Urban Development
Conference
24th February 2011. FUGA, Budapest
Innovative design inspired by nature in an urban context. The trustees of this exhibition made their selection of works by contemporary artists, architects and landscape architects. The designers of works presented here focussed on the alternative reutilization of slumming urban and industrial zones. The utopistic visions of this review rely upon the symbiosis of nature and culture…