It has been ten years since the world bid farewell to Zaha Hadid. In Budapest, too, her spirit of flowing forms was set to take shape. But she was not the only one: architects like Norman Foster and Erick van Egeraat also conceived visions for...
The Mies van der Rohe Prize was awarded for the 17th time this year. Founded in 1988, the European Union Architecture Prize recognises outstanding achievements in contemporary European architecture, focusing on the complexity of architecture. The award, which is presented every two years, therefore emphasises...
Should new museums be built in a park? Is it contemporary to construct new buildings instead of expanding Budapest's 200-year-old City Park, whose renovation was undoubtedly more than necessary? Ultimately, this was precisely the question at issue in the so-called Liget project, when it was decided...
Only a few steps away from the Student City in the south of Budapest, which is still in the planning stage, stands the architecturally completely outdated National Theatre, designed by - does anyone remember? - Mária Siklós. The story of how this outmoded and ridiculous...
Metro station Fövám tér - Architects: sporaarchitects - Year: 2014 Budapest’s fourth metro line was originally intended to be open for traffic in 2008. The planning of the stations had already commenced in 2005, although the inauguration only took place ten years later. Now the most...
Memorial to the Revolution of 1956 - Architects: I-ypszilon - Year: 2006 This key monument was inaugurated at a highly symbolic site exactly fifty years following the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Here once stood the 10 m high statue of Stalin which was...
Simplon Court - Architects: Gábor and Bence Turányi t2a - Year: 2010 The most colorful corner of Budapest owes its name to a nearby residential block from the modern period. Indeed, it is not the court that makes the building so worth seeing, but rather its colorful residential...
Square: Széll Kálmán tér – Architects: Építész Stúdió, Lépték-Terv – Year: 2016 For more than 40 years, the people of Budapest have been awaiting redevelopment of the most important traffic junction on the Buda side of the city. Now, in May 2016, it is finally complete. The...
The oldest traces of Budapest are located in the north of the Danube metropolis on the territory of the formerly independent city of Óbuda. As late as the 5th century, the Roman Empire reached as far as the Danube and the capital of the province...
Geometria Office Building – design: 3h – Katalin Csillag and Zsolt Gunther – built: 2013 Not far from the tourist paths, in a quiet side street not far from the Danube hides one of the most beautiful examples of recent Budapest architecture, at the same time...
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