Extension of the Roman Catholic Parish, Pestszentimre Architect: Zoltán Kovács Text: Nóra Ostoróczky Photos: Zoltán Kovács The community of Pestszentimre has been dreaming of their own centre which was built in 2020 and is referred to in their own publication as ,,our house”. The church yard with a unique milieu has been the venue for […]
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Service and Commemoration
The Remodelling of the Parish, Torna, Slovakia Architect: Jan Krcho Text: Béla Pazár Photos: Jan Krcho In the row of houses facing the street it is surprising that a single-storey flat-roof brick structure stands on the side of the development with a magically unexpected situation. It may have been slightly modified, but we do not […]
Oratory in Pasarét
Community Building Pasarét Architect: Gábor Sajtos Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Zsolt Hlinka Built between 2020 and 2021, the Community Building in Pasarét is spiritually based on some sentences of Gaudium et Spes, whilst its physical foundations are the renovation, remodelling, functional revision and „outreach” of the Franciscan monastery. The former monastery had actually too many […]
Sophisticated High-Tech
Hungexpo F1 Reception Building Architects: Péter Dóczé, Mária Magyar Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: György Palkó Significant changes have taken place at Hungexpo between 2019 and 2021 by modernizing the existing exhibition halls and constructing the new congress centre and pavilions. An important part of this modernization was the connection of the various buildings, the creation […]
Glass Organism in the Heart of Budapest
Szervita Square Building Architects: Antal Fekete, László Gellár Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Zsolt Hlinka By the turn of the millennia there has hardly any vacant lot been left in the fabric of downtown Budapest, which means that large-scale new developments are only possible after the demolition of existing buildings. Meanwhile the maximizing of the marketable […]
Magical Transcendence
The New Home to Bánáti + Hartvig Architects Architects: Béla Bánáti, Lajos Hartvig Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky A unique building was salvaged by Bánáti + Hartvig Architects, when transforming and remodelling a former restaurant building along Fehérvári road in Buda into its own headquarters. Built in the 1960s, this single-storey pie features a […]
Meaningful Simplicity
Detached Family House, Göd Architects: Péter Klobusovszki, Balázs Rose Text: Krisztina Somogyi Photos: Balázs Danyi Not far from the river Danube, a detached family house located in a tiny street does not ambition to stand out from erveryday reality. Quite the contrary, it creates a „fine place” within it with its own sensuous order, opening […]
The Heritage of Alajos Hauszmann Comes to Life
St Stephen’s Hall Reconstructed in the Royal Palace of Buda Restoration: Tibor Angyal Text: Kornél Baliga Photos: Várkapitányság Recently recreated, St Stephen’s Hall is a unique phenomenon: it is a completely destroyed interior reborn, not only regarding architecture and applied arts, but furnished in an authentic way including every detail, such as furniture and decoration, […]
The Renovation of Künstlerhaus
Albertina Modern, Vienna Architect: August Weber (1868) Restoration: Thomas Mahr (2021) Text: György Szegő Photos: Albertina, Hanna Szegő In the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy the development of the capital city, Vienna and visual arts mutually enriched each other to flourish as signalling the stages of an economic breakthrough in the 19th century. Artists were rivalling with the […]
Plan for a National Culture Park
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Concept: Barna Kovács D. – Barna Architects Kft. The site of the National Culture Park is a 35-hectare area in Yamag district, located west of the inner city of Ulaanbaatar. The scheme contains a development on approximately 95.000 m2 with functions, community zones and parking spaces. The architectural concept of the park draws […]
Using Polivalent
Alternative multifunctional design practice Text: Péter Müllner By the early 1960s it had been obvious that there is a huge and widening gap between needs of users – concerning architecture – and the everyday practices of the profession. In order to bridge this gap, architects and theoreticians of architecture then started to work out various […]
Town in the Landscape – Landscape in the Town
The Concept of Landscape in Hungarian Urbanism (1930–1955) Text: Gábor Oláh Since the 1930s, the landscape has evolved into an omni-present concept of reference in social sciences. In the interwar period the presence of the concept in discourses in both sciences and public life in Hungary most probably exerted significant influence on post-war workshops such […]