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Architects: Bánáti + Hartvig Architects
- Area: 1046 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: MádiLáncos Studio Építésziroda Ltd., Reticolo Ltd., Hano-Plan Ltd., Provill Ltd., Ventor Tűzvédelmi Ltd., +1
Budapest: The Latest Architecture and News
Bánáti + Hartvig Architects’ New Office Building / Bánáti + Hartvig Architects
GeoConcept Headquarters / Térhálózat
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Architects: Térhálózat
- Area: 645 m²
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: GeoConcept Ltd., Withlight, BeLight, Modulor, VK Studio Kft, +2
Zaha Hadid Architects Reveals Designs for a Mixed-Use Development in Budapest
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals the winning design proposal for a mixed-use development in Budapest, comprising residential, office and retail functions, tied together by civic spaces and landscaped areas. The Zugló City Centre establishes a network of public squares and urban gardens that re-establish the natural ecosystem of Rákos Creek and connects the new development to the surrounding framework of parks and avenues.
Corvin Technology Park / 3h architects
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Architects: 3h architects
- Area: 39627 m²
- Year: 2019
Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music Nears Completion
The House of Hungarian Music is taking shape within Budapest's City Park. With the structure and the design's distinctive roof completed, construction work is underway for the interior of the music hall. Nestled within the park's trees, the project designed by Sou Fujimoto features an extensive, horizontally uninterrupted glass volume topped by a perforated roof which allows natural light to penetrate all levels of the building.
Multifunctional Sports Hall / Atelier dmb
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Architects: Atelier dmb
- Area: 2000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Medek Ákos, Mangel Zoárd, Nyári Ilona
The Hungarian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale Explores Ways of Managing the Socialist Architectural Heritage
The Hungarian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale explores the often challenging socialist architecture and looks at how this heritage could be reconsidered and given a new future. Titled Othernity – Reconditioning our Modern Heritage, the exhibition curated by Dániel Kovács presents twelve iconic modern buildings of Budapest and the visions of twelve architecture practices from Central and Eastern Europe for their reconditioning. The Hungarian Pavilion's project looks into how architecture can build on its past to foster resilience, sustainability and strong cultural identities.
"We Can Be Catalysts for Change": Designer Fauzia Khanani on Pioneering New Prototypes for the Future
Fauzia Khanani is no stranger to challenging the status quo. Working on a range of projects around the globe, from New York and Zurich to Budapest and Geneva, she continues to rethink the process of design across the built environment. Her firm, Studio For, is pioneering new prototypes for the future of work in a post pandemic era. At the same time, she's working on a number of pro-bono conceptual community-driven projects.
SA43 Apartments / Numbernow studio + Balázs Szelecsényi
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Architects: Balázs Szelecsényi, Numbernow studio
- Area: 992 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Aluframe, Gil, Schlotterer, Ströher, Trimble
National Dance Theater / ZDA - Zoboki Design and Architecture
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Architects: ZDA - Zoboki Design and Architecture
- Area: 8000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, EQUITONE, GRAPHISOFT, Bosch RexRoth, Milliken, +4
Recent Images Highlight Completed Structure for Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music in Budapest, Hungary
The House of Hungarian Music, part of the Liget Budapest Project, has won the World's Best Use of Music in Property Development at the Music Cities Awards. Also selected as one of the top three Best European Development category, the intervention, designed by Sou Fujimoto is under construction on the former site of the demolished Hungexpo office buildings in Budapest, Hungary. Scheduled to open in 2021, the structure of the building is complete, and the iconic roof is taking shape, as well as the monumental glass walls, the largest of their kind in Europe.
Campus and Creative Innovation Knowledge Park / 3h architecture
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Architects: 3h architecture
- Area: 15851 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: GRAPHISOFT, Jansen, Lamberts, Assa Abloy, A2s, +21
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Professionals: Hungaroproject Engineering Office, Nokesy Design Kft, Flamma Contra Kft, G&B Plan Kft, YSAKO Kft, +2
Workstation Cabin / Hello Wood
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Architects: Hello Wood
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Lapidárium Engineering Ltd.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Hungarian Museum of Transport to Move Forward
The Hungarian Government has decided to continue the design process for Diller Scofidio + Renfro's new Museum of Transport in Budapest. During the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic cast doubt on the continuation of the project, and this latest news is a sign of support for the team's planning, design and preparatory work necessary for starting construction.
Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 to Reimagine 12 Modernist Icons in Budapest
The Hungarian Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale will feature the work of twelve design studios that will reconsider twelve iconic modernist buildings in Budapest. For the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, the pavilion's curator Dániel Kovács wants to explore the value and heritage of architectural modernism to reconcile past and future architecture.
Why Budapest's Contemporary Architects had to Go Underground to Find Success
This article by ArchDaily's former managing editor Vanessa Quirk first appeared on ArtsCultureBeat, the web magazine of Arts & Culture concentration at Columbia Journalism School’s MA program, titled "The Secret Life of Hungarian Contemporary Architecture."
This time last year, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán stood at a podium in a pristine new subway station. Raw concrete beams criss-crossed above him; state-of-the art, driverless trains stood silently beside him. It was the opening ceremony for Line 4, a subway line that due to delays, corruption, and disputes had been 40 years in the making.
“The people of Budapest began to accept the thought that only their grandchildren would use Budapest’s new Metro line, or not even them.” Orbán told the crowd. He recounted an old joke that embodied the cynicism that once surrounded the project: Chuck Norris had been on Metro Line 4.
Orbán credited the line’s completion, which occurred only a few weeks before the 2014 parliamentary elections, to “the solidarity and unity that was established in 2010 [when Orbán’s government took power] and has since been maintained.” He didn’t mention how, under his first government (1998 to 2002), he had withheld funds from the project, contributing significantly to its delay. Nor did he mention that his party had fought against the idea that the line, an expensive infrastructural project, needed architecture at all.
Today, though, the line’s stunning architecture is its most noticeable feature. Line 4 is not just a watershed achievement in Hungary’s history, but also a symbol of what it takes to make contemporary architecture in Hungary today. Both literally and figuratively, contemporary architecture had to go underground.
Art Shield Statue Conservation Pavilion / Hello Wood
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Architects: Hello Wood
- Area: 112 m²
- Year: 2019