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Bartok Rooftop / Théque Atelier

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The duplex apartment takes place in a 130-year-old historic building in the old town of South Buda. Through the century, this is the fourth layer of renovation on this home, this time an expansion to the attic that doubles the net area.

Gyöngyszem Kindergarten / Archikon Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Hungary's first smart kindergarten is transformed from a prefabricated panel structure with sustainable solutions. Built in the late 1970s, the 10-story prefabricated apartment blocks on Gyöngyösi Street surround a tree-lined green promenade with small-scale retail buildings, a nursery, a kindergarten, and a school, including Gyöngyszem Kindergarten. The existing building was a single-story, flat-roofed, prefabricated paneled house with a central corridor.

Biofarm Workplace / KONTEXTUS architecture studio

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The location is in North-East Hungary where the landscape is defined by farms and endless ploughed fields. The project aims to reflect the characteristics of the harsh anthropogenic surroundings and at the same time, a humanised workplace, which provides shelter for the staff and farmers.

EUmies Awards 2024 Announces its List of 362 Nominees

Maria-Cristina Florian — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 05:30:00 +0000

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) nominees. A total of 362 works of architecture realized over 38 different European countries have been selected, marking the first stage of the EUmies Awards’ 18th cycle. In the next stage, the jury will choose 40 outstanding projects, followed by visits to the finalists and interviews with the architects, their teams, and the project clients.

Local-Looking Gas Station / Intramuros

Andreas Luco — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

For decades, a two-position gas station has been operating in the residental sturcture of Budaörs, alongside the main road. The existing control facility basically provided the function, however, its mass formation and appearence did not resemble of a gas station, nor did it fit in the downtown location.

Corvin Technology Park / 3h architects

Valeria Silva — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The location. The construction of the Corvin Promenade is Central Europe's largest downtown urban renewal investment, an internationally recognized and award-winning development project. The real estate developmental concept slices out a specific area of the dilapidated building of the district and replaces it with a completely renewed city fabric, which houses commercial, residential, and office buildings. The Corvin Technology Park (C5) is located at the end of this stripe, thus it has a prominent role in closing the central promenade running through the area. Complementing the opposite building, the office building was placed perpendicular to the axis, creating more space between the buildings, while being a definite endpoint of the promenade.

Gyermely Town Center / Gereben Marián Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Gyermely Town Center. The project encompasses the revitalization process of an aging and increasingly impoverished Hungarian small town. Far from the bustling metropolitan areas, the agriculture based rural lifestyle is slowly disappearing. Poverty, aging communities due to the migration of young residents and depopulation are common tendencies, yet over the last decades, the community of Gyermely has successfully implemented projects to reverse this process. Long-term and systematic thinking is a prolonged, small budget process, resulting in interim milestones such as the development of a new town center.

Face, Pool, Two Towers and Ruin Installation / Paradigma Ariadné

Valeria Silva — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Modernist housing estates are rejected, just as the Haszkovó housing estate in the city of Veszprém, Hungary. Their stories are understood as the stories of failed urban developments, they are grey, sad, and soulless. Can something be soulless and grey which gives home to 20.000 inhabitants? Instead of letting our prejudices drive our view on modernist housing estates, is that possible to reconsider our relationships and think about them as “real cities” and to complete them with creative ideas?

SA43 Apartments / Numbernow studio + Balázs Szelecsényi

Valeria Silva — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0000

SA43 Apartments Project represents how to create unity on a plot of land in Budapest with vastly diverse features, with a complex client demand by the hand of young architects, on the superficial and sales-based Hungarian market of contemporary condominiums. SA43 Apartments Project aimed to bring a higher architectural quality to the medium-sized housing market in Hungary. This could be achieved with the close and continuous collaboration between the design team, builder and client started early on the conceptual phase.

Duplex villa / débert architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Environment. Central Hungary, agglomeration of Buda, western verge of Budaörs. The street lies in the catchment area of Huszonnégyökrös Hill and cuts a rift among its slopes, leading to popular hiking routes, birding spots, and panoramic vistas. Due to the atmospheric conditions, gliders taking off from Budaörs and Farkashegy airports can be seen flying above the hill’s ridge in clear weather.

Haszkovó Housing Estate Re-imagined as Vibrant Urban Installations

Dima Stouhi — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:30:00 +0000

The Haszkovó housing estate in the city of Veszprém, Hungary has been seen as a failed urban development: "grey, sad, and soulless". However, this cold structure managed to shelter 20,000 inhabitants within its walls, standing as a "real city" within the area.

Reconstruction of Historic Town Hall of Buda / Hetedik Muterem

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The old Town Hall of Buda is one of Hungary's most important monuments. It is significant because the magistracy of the Hungarian capital operated here from 1688 (the end of 150 years of Turkish rule) until the late 19th century, and it is also unique because of the layering of its construction history both in time and space. The conglomerate of constructions consisting of several civilian buildings from the 13-14th century was formed during the 18th century in several periods to one unified, representative building reflecting Baroque architecture. In the middle ages, there were probably five smaller houses in place of today’s building, the fragments of which are preserved in the cellars and ground floor walls.

Diósgyőr Stadium / KÖZTI Architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The new football stadium of Miskolc, the largest town in Northern Hungary, has been a state-funded project. At the beginning of the design period, six different concept designs were presented to the Client, the Sports Club, the Municipality and the Fan Club. Based on these designs, the Client decided to have the existing stadium, built in 1939, totally demolished.

pointONE showroom / Suto Interior Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:00:00 +0000

The pointONE showroom opened in the beginning of June this year in the heart of Budapest. In the new centre the products distributed by the company Decorfloor , installed according to the interior design concept of Suto Interior Architects change everything that has been typical of showrooms in Hungary.

FLOW Hostel / Partizan Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:00:00 +0000

FLOW Hostel occupies the second floor of a more than hundred-year-old downtown historic building in Budapest. Our team was asked to turn the whole area into a hostel with 98 beds for young tourists traveling on a budget. In addition to rooms with capacities of four to eight people, a chain of communal areas was designed comprising of an entrance hall including the reception, a lounge, a canteen with self-service kitchen and a media area.

Szeged Cathedral Renovation / 3h architecture + Váncza Muvek Studio

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 03:00:00 +0000

In the international discourse on contemporary architecture it seems to be evident that intervention into historic buildings is always a sensitive issue. This is particularly the case when the project is not only a simple renovation, but there are alterations or additions to the original building – it is always difficult to find the balance between past and present, between the attitude of sheer preservation of a monument and the voice of contemporary architecture. Additions copying eariler times and contemporary impacts that ignore their context are the two extremities to avoid – the desireable solution lies somewhere in between. There is no ultimate recipe, the questions need to be asked and answered in every particular case. 3H architercture has refurbished the Cathedral of Szeged in southeastern Hungary and managed to find solutions worthy of note.

Sopron Castle District Revitalization / Hetedik Műterem

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The Castle District of Sopron is a 40-60 meter wide boulevard, which was formed on the outer skirt of the ditch running along the city walls that encircled the former historical core of the town, on the so called glacis slope. Consequently, from direction of the castle walls the row of houses, mostly of Rococo and Louis XVI style built in the 18th-19th century, appears with alternating building height, developed typically on narrow plots. The only exception is one spot where the facade is interrupted by war dam-ages and part of the castle wall reveals as a visual element. The outer row of houses consists of earlier, partly medieval buildings with wider lot divisions, resulting in patio houses that are connected to Castle District with passages. Once long ago – after the development of the surrounding facades – market function was present in this area of historical significance: it gave place to cattle markets or at some parts of it hay markets were held in the middle of the 19th century. In the 19th century, the Castle Dis-trict was more of a contiguous, slightly outwards sloping area than a boulevard, even though also a tram line was running along it.

Ilcsi Beauty Workshop / sporaarchitects

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:00:00 +0000

Ilcsi is a family run business that specialise in all natural products. The products are created using the power and richness of nature and contain natural ingredients which are sourced from a wide selection of plants. These products are sold not just in Hungary but throughout the world.