Take a 80 square meter ground floor flat in the downtown of Budapest, and transform it into an artisanal coffee shop, for one of the world’s best baristas. The building is an urban palace, built in 1812, with beautiful classicist detail, structures of that period, today a residential house.
The new Budapets’s multipurpose centre, the CET (Central European Time), or Bálna (whale), as it was immediately renamed on account of its curvy whale-like shape, is a modern building rising on the banks of the Danube is a three-story space devoted to all kinds of art, shopping and entertainment.
Focusing on sculptural cliffs and friendly hillside woods, Hideg-ház is an unusual object in the landscape of the outskirts of Kőszeg, a charming historical town in Hungary.
SPAR decided to open its new supermarket at a shopping mall called MOM Park, situated in the heart of a wealthy district of Budapest. They had the idea of building up a unique interior, which provides a high quality costumer experience. To chose the designer of this flagship store, they invited architects and interior designers to take part in a non-open competition, and submit sketches of ideas. LAB5 architects won because of the look and feel of a market space, with a friendly industrial atmosphere. Luckily later 90% of the original ideas could have been realised.
The Vasas Sportclub is one of the oldest and most successful club in Hungary. It was founded in 1911, in Budapest and it already has 45 Olympic Gold Medalists and 40 World Champions.
From the 30 sports they have, one is fencing, which has 9 Olympic Champions. The latest victory was in 2012, London. Áron Szilágyi won the Gold medal in sabre. Áron has been training here – in this almost 40 years old hall-, since he was 9. The hall is located in the green area of Budapest. The designs of the renovation were made by our office, the A4 Studio.
Our customer wanted to build a one-storey family house with attic on a currently built-up corner lot in Dunakeszi, a suburban residential area situated on the bank of the Danube.
At the time of design, the lot was already built-up with a high pitched roof brick building and a wooden frame outbuilding on it. These buildings were demolished.
STRABAG corporate group, as a large and important European construction company, operates in many fields of the global construction industry.With the opening of the eastern border the focus on the central and central-eastern Europe countries has been strengthened.
General design concept & layout for office and laboratory buildings by MHM architects, Vienna Matthias Molzbichler, Sebastian Haselsteiner, Florian Molzbichler
Client: Nostra Cement Kft., STRABAG
Full service general contractor: STRABAG Hungary
Process technology planning: A TEC Production & Services GmbH
Though Hungary, located in Central Eastern Europe, is not rich in active volcanos, a large expanse of the country used to be volcanic some 5 million years ago. However, this does help ensure good quality soil for high level wine production, one of Hungary’s largest export products.
The Bishops resting pavilion is situated in the most beautiful area of Veszprém. The neoclassical two-storey pavilion was built by Bishop Joseph Kopácsy in 1820. The new owner would like to operated the building as a cafe. Our task was to renovate and expand the old pavilion, which was in degraded condition. It was important to link the semi-basement and ground floor space.
On the plot facing the Danube in central Budapest stands a house erected in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1897, originally a barrack. At the outburst of the 1956 Revolution the main demonstration took place on the square, in front of the building – making the facade an icon of the revolt, and part of our common recollection – therefore it become a partly scheduled monument. Later on the house served as a political party’s hall, school, restaurant, office building & fitness centre among others.
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