Article source: ZSK Architects (Zsuffa és Kalmár Építész Műterem)
“Their houses are massive but light and not forceful and scholar. They are not humorous but spreading serenity. … We can openly turn to these buildings and we can bite of them as much as we want, our eyes can eat a lot and appetite of our imagination comes as well.”[i]
Project: HungaroControl Centre of Hungarian Air Navigation Services
Location: Budapest XVIII., Hungary
Photography: Tamás Bujnovszky
Architects in charge: László Kalmár, Zsolt Zsuffa
Project architect: Gábor Nagy
Assistant architects: Glória Papp, Szilvia Rehus (competition), Katalin Fazekas, Zsófia Lázár, Mihály Kanyó, Roland Németh, András Gali (permit and tender doc), Iván Kund, Balázs Rose (construction doc)
Interior design: Gábor Szokolyai, Dénes Kovács (more…)
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The Villa with two flats is situated on the slope of Márton Hill in Budapest.
The area of each flat is 350 square meters, there is a cellar, groundfloor, firstfloor and loft. The building itself has definitely two fronts. Tradition and modernism are integrated as a „body sculpture”. While in the north side, along the street, pitched roof geometry caracteristic of the Carpatian Basin is revealed, in the south, garden side completely modern structure opened up for the eye.
Visegrád, with its 1800 inhabitants, is considered to be the smallest town of Hungary. The development of the town center is a fine example for how the original exaggerating ideas were altered due to the economic crisis – besides its negative effects – and facilitated the birth of a sustainable development, satisfying the continuous needs of the local community and the temporary demands of tourism.
Minimalist design meets everlasting intellectual values. Temple of books shaped into a long brick house in the side of the Big-Proud Peak, Hungary, from Foldes Architects
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1.The history of the building’s architecture
Where the current mill takes its place there probably had been one already in the middle ages.
The first report that proves the earliest existence of the mill is from 1765, which we found in the protocol of the city, Veszprém. There is also a note about the building in a fifteen years younger map. We also know that its name was already Kopácsy in the 1830’s, and that it had three water-wheels. There is also a map from 1857 which contains the mill, but the L figured building does not have yet some parts we know nowadays, because they were built later on. In the 1950s the building was socialized and private homes were settled in the main building and the outhouses as well. Then, in the 1980’s, the building was used as a tailoring and as a locker. Because the appliances were heavy, the wooden frame was enforced with steel, so that it became strong enough. After the tailoring had been given up the building was standing being empty and rusty for a pretty long term.
The building’s frontage which faces the street is classicist. The other fronts of it are simple plastered walls, with some scattered windows on them, and the building has the signs that it was rebuilt more times.
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