Public Building Category: Újlipótvárosi Community Centre – RAM Colosseum, Széchenyi István University, New Knowledge Space and Inno-Share Buildings, NYME Sopron, Laboratory and Scientific Centre; Office Building Category: Magyar Autoclub Service Center, Green House Office Building; Commercial Facility Category: Iberostar Grand Hotel…
Kós Károly Prize was founded to recognize excellent achievements of individuals and communities protecting local architectural heritage and preserving architectural traditions. Every year it is awarded on or about December 16th, the birthday of a creator using motifs of Transylvanian folk art and historic Hungarian architectural monuments.
The Héttorony Festival (Festival of the Seven Towers) is dedicated to the legacy of Imre Makovecz architect. The Hungarian Pavilion in Sevilla was opened 20 years ago – and this event provided the apropos of this years festival all around the Carpathian Basin. Concerts, exhibitions, lectures, architectural walks were held in Subotica, Makó, Csenger…
The audience of these legendary museums is welcome now to imposing exhibitions presenting two renaissance periods of Hungarian arts, evoking the culture and humanist spirit of King Matthias Corvinus and the revival of music and painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The top achievements of our culture illustrated here by works…
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the periodical Bercsényi 28-30, former editors, authors, boarders and readers organised an exhibition in FUGA Budapest Architectural Centre to evoke the bygone scene and periodical of tolerated/prohibited architecture, fine arts, music, performance. A symposium was also held…
József Borsos is a major architect of the 20th century in Hungary. His name is connected with such Debrecen buildings as the University Church, the Mortuary Building, the Stadion and the Swimming Pool as well. The exhibition explores the social background of these developments and the significant role of István Vásáry mayor…
The 7th edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR), the major festival in the field of film and architecture all over the world, will be held from 10 to 13 October. More than 100 films on current trends in urban design and architecture will be screened in the LantarenVenster cinema in Rotterdam, Holland. Disused buildings.
Mud huts, timber dwellings, stone houses – architectural structures around the world have evolved to be perfectly adapted to the surrounding environment, climate and available building materials. With the growing awareness of sustainable construction and regional traditions, these building types have been rediscovered as vital sources…
Csaba Csontos began his career in the studio of his master, Lajos Zalaváry, along with his friend Miklós Dobozi. As a young architect his name is linked to the highest quality building of the early postmodern architecture in Hungary, the MTA Observatory in Piszkéstető. For many decades he took part in the reconstruction of the Festetics Castle…
Prima Primissima Award 2013 in Hungarian Architecture category goes to:
Primissima: Dr. Zoltán Bachman
Prima: János Golda
Prima: Tamás Karácsony DLA
Reitter Ferenc Award 2013 goes to the architects of the Eiffel Palace, Budapest: András Gelesz, Kornél Baliga, Gergely Kelecsényi
The 4-storey building under the address Bajcsy-Zsilinszky u. 78., having façade to three streets, was built in 1893, based on the architectural plans of Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl…
The Silver Carpenter Pencil Award founded by the Honi Art Foundation goes for journalists who promote the Hungarian architecture scene, and also represent the quality journalism. The Silver Carpenter Pencil Award 2013 goes to: Erika Katalina Pásztor editor in chief – epiteszforum.hu, Anna Zöldi journalist, Péter Rózsa editor – FUGA Radio