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Project • By Studio Kraft • Apartments
H151 apartment house
The five-apartment apartment building is located in a green area of Budapest on a sloping plot surrounded by old trees. Respecting this natural setting it was built without cutting a single tree. It aims to combine the elegance, materiality, and personality of the local villas from the turn of the century with the functionality and modernity of the small-scale quality condominium architecture in a compact building. The result is a simple, archetypal, compact mass broken by the corner terraces, the asymmetrically placed pitched roof and the rounded railings of the roof terrace.
Balázs Danyi
Balázs Danyi
The lower two floors, which contain four apartments with covered terraces, merge into the earth with their br... More
Project • By Archikon Architects • Workshops
ADAPTÉR Art&Tech Center
’Szuterén’, a term denoting basement-level spaces etymologically comes from the French noun souterrain, and it is characteristic of art nuoveau townhouses that were built across European cities in the 20th century. Formerly this is where servants’ quarters were located, but now many of these basements stand uninhabited.
Balazs Danyi
Balazs Danyi
These units are prone to dampness and receive minimal sunlight, due to them being located mostly beneath the ground level. The issues which are the main reason behind them standing unoccupied also proved to be the most significant design and construction challenges in the creation of ADAPTÉR. In recent years, significant architectural innovations have taken... More
News • News • 8 Mar 2023
Archikon designs light and playful apartment at the heart of Budapest
It is hardly surprising that architects find themselves retrofitting old spaces for new and emerging contemporary programmes as Budapest is known for the strata of its rich and complicated architectural heritage. Finding a place for modern programmes within a historic shell is a particularly interesting problem because frequently these programmes are still undergoing clarification in terms of what spatial arrangements they require. Pannka Part is a brand-new kind of play and community centre that is located in the middle of a bustling residential neighbourhood with access to the Danube shore.
Balázs Danyi
The Palatinus House, which is primarily a residential structure but was one of the most opulent and contemporary structure... More
Project • By Studio Kraft • Private Houses
Villa "K"
On a beautiful, panoramic, steep plot next to the forest in Budapest a three-storey family house built in the nineties became obsolete.
Dávid Pásztor
At the beginning of the nineties, large family houses grew like mushrooms in the newly parceled suburbs of Budapest. In thirty years, these areas have been transformed, the value of real estate has multiplied, while the hillsides became overbuilt and confusing. Our aim was to merge the building into the nature with its dark colours and natural materials compensating the chaotic suburban cityscape.
Dávid Pásztor
The family house with poor construction quality is worth a renovation. Transforming the existing building, minimizing construction waste are less... More
News • News • 11 Feb 2022
Sou Fujimoto nestles House of Music inside Budapest City Park
The 9,000 m2 House of Music is nestled amongst the trees inside Budapest’s City Park. Sou Fujimoto wanted to design the museum as a continuation of the park.
Liget Budapest - Palkó György
A large undulating canopy, made out of 1,000 honeycomb-shaped elements, aims to blur the boundaries between museum and park. The canopy is covered with 30,000 decorative tree leaves and punctured with 100 crater-like holes. Some are punctured by trees and others allow for natural light to flood the interiors.
Liget Budapest - Palkó György
“We were enchanted by the multitude of trees in the City Park and inspired by the space created by them. Whilst the thick and rich canopy covers and protects its surroundi... More
Project • By Hello Wood • Visitor Center
Infopoints
What would be the way to expand a historic city quarter with contemporary buildings avoiding disharmonious results? It was the core concern of the architects when designing the new information centers in the Buda Castle District in Budapest. The recently finished Visitor Center and Infopoint kiosks are using contemporary solutions to reflect on their surroundings - figuratively and literally.\
Tamás Bata
The new Visitor Center and additional Infopoints function as the new information hubs of the Castle District. The pavilions were built based on the idea of the Castle Headquarters Integrated Regional Development Centre Nonprofit Ltd., designed by architecture studio, BLOKK and further developed and implemented by the Hello Wood... More
News • News • 22 Jan 2021
Structural work on Sou Fujimoto’s Hungarian House of Music is completed
In the designs for the highly anticipated House of Hungarian Music project Sou Fujimoto aims to dissolve the boundaries between the building and the Városliget park surrounding it. The key element is a large floating canopy structure punctured with holes that represents sound waves.
Liget Budapest Project
The voids function as light wells to flood the interiors with natural light in the same way as the foliage of trees. The park gradually changes into a big floating roof that Sou Fujimoto describes as an “architectural forest”.
Liget Budapest Project
Sou Fujimoto adds lightness and transparency to the building in some places by implementing 12 metres high glass walls. The walls are made up out of 94 cust... More
Project • By Lakbermagazin • Apartments
Minimalist interior design - 73sqm apartment in Budapest
The stylish, bright 786 sq ft new contemporary home was designed by interior designer Kate Koppany in the heart of Budapest, Hungary. The client wanted a contemporary minimalist interior with some eye-catching elements - like the clock on a feature wall in the open plan living room, decorative painting, the modern fireplace or the well planned LED lighting throughout the home. More