The magic of Architecture

Magyar pavilon
In relation with the opening ceremony of the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2010, Peter Magyar writes about not only the installation ofthe two young architects, Andor Wesselenyi-Garay and Marcel Ferenc, but on the vivid and strong connections between architecture-line-music-science.

Drive Through Restaurant in Galway, Ireland

Drive Through Restaurant in Galway. Architects: Paul Dillon, Zsuffa Zsolt
Paul Dillon's and Zsolt Zsuffa's Drive Through Restaurant in Galway in Ireland.

In the depths of dense creative energies - loft office in the former Goldberger textile factory

Hungarian architects Zsanett Benedek along with Daniel Lakos of Tervhivatal have created an office in Budapest in the loft of the former textile factory named Goldberger by white building boxes.

Klein Dytham Architects

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, fotó: KDa
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham are possibly the only globally famous contemporary architects whose work is so little known. Judit Várhelyi made an interview with Astrid Klein, one of the founders of Klein Dytham Architecs.

“Wandering of dots” - glass stakes on the new main street of Budapest

We can sit on them, they are luminous in the evenings, and -daringly enough- they are made out of glass. The works of glass sculptor András Bojti are placed in the city center of Budapest, at the end of a new 2 km long pedestrian mall. A story of a successful co-operation.

Bamboo as an attitude

A    bambusz, mint szemléletmód - filmfotó, Bojti András
What can we learn from bamboo construction? András Bojti's thoughts over bamboo, life and universe.

Yerevan Intercontinental Hotel and Business Center: a forum with a view

The winning project of the international architectural competition in Yerevan by young Paris architects' consortium, Agence Search and Series et Series.

View and interior

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum is a purpose built regional art museum designed by Tony Fretton Architects to house the Storstrøm Art Museum’s permanent collection of Danish fine art dating from the period 1780-1980.

casa cv - dipped in off-white

Bernd Steinhuber, a young Austrian architect designed a villa at the lake Balaton [Hungary]. Text and images by Bernd Steinhuber.

Family home, Fótliget

Architectural design: Nelli Parádi

Kazunao Abe: The architecture has visibility or informational perception

An article by Kazunao Abe, chief curator at Yamaguchi Center of Art and Media about the project Corpora in Sigh(t)e to be exhibited at the Hungarian Pavilion for the Venice Biennial: "There are various notations to describe a certain world, and the most of them are of the structure in which an observer’s eye is set on a universal, fixed point to catch an object from the outside. The existence of a human being has always been compared to the position of this eye. This eye might be replaced with god or mind. Let me call it an “eye and mind” model."

11th Venice Architectural Biennial: Introduction to the Hungarian Exhibition by curator Gyula Július

Corpora in Si(gh)te, perspective image, Venice, Italy, 2008 (source: dNA)
The Corpora in Si(gh)te architectural and media art project - to be exhibited in the Hungarian pavilion of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice - models the possibilities of a novel approach to design. The article is the introduction to the reader of the Biennale

THE DANUBE EMBANKMENT OF BUDAPEST – A SWEEP ROUND

Until the nineteenth century the transport routes followed the rivers and upstream the boats had to be towed from the riverside. The passing through had to be allowed all along the river. The emergence of roads along the banks goes back to those times.

Andras Bojti: Encounter with Axel Schultes in Berlin, 2002

During June and July 2002, I had exhibited my architecturally inspired glass sculptures at the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Berlin. Mr. Kamel Louafi, landscape architect, who had designed the impressive Park complex for the recent Hannover Expo, opened the exhibition. The Exhibition was titled The Gate in the Gate (Tor am Tor in German).

One drop of water on the oily sea

The building floating on the water can make a connection between the depth under the water, the height above the water and the appearig mainland between those two.

Constructing of Structure in "Street-Drawings" by Freehand

There is no street-drawing without the task of detailing also some facades in it. We should study the original web of basic lines belonging to facades in the foreground from a frontal position, too.

GANZ Pipes or thoughts about the connection between contemporary public-place plastic art and architecture

In the framework of designing Millenary Park I myself was charged with the designing of monumental glass sculptures built on the creation of a sort of film-like series of virtual sights by the viewers with the simplicity of minimal art (CORTEN steel and plate-glass).

MARGIT CENTER Office Building - 2-8 Petrezselyem utca, Budapest, District II

Architect: Építész Stúdió Kft. (Ferenc Cságoly, Iván Nagy, Richárd Hőnich)
Design: 1999-2002
Expected start of construction: 2002

Alkotás Point Office Building

Alkotás Point Office Building
Architect: Építész Stúdió Kft. (Hőnich Richárd, Keller Ferenc, Cságoly Ferenc)

Dusk of The Architects?

Central Military Graveyard in Budaörs Entrance and service buildings
Our story started in 1995. The Civil Society for the Care of German Army Graves (VDK) invited international tenders to appoint an architect to design a central graveyard in the Budaörs area. The location of the final resting-place of Hungarian and German soldiers who died in World War II was determined by a dual-government agreement.