Inspired in the worlds of nature and of music, the Japanese studio won in 2014 the competition to build the House of Hungarian Music, to be built in Budapest’s largest park. An undulated disc, pierced by random openings, is elevated on slender suppor
Inspired by the shelter a tree gives, the House of Hungarian Music is embedded in the dense vegetation of the City Park in Budapest. The building is included within the Liget Budapest Project, an ambitious cultural initiative to renovate this histori
Working from offices in Oslo and New York, the firm Snøhetta has won the commission to draw up a masterplan for a new neighborhood in the south of the Hungarian capital. Its entry was selected in a competition organized on an invitation-only basis, i
The project is understood as an extension of the park rather than as a building itself. The open ground level and the slightly sloping stacked terraces that configure the museum ensure that the complex can be accessed from any given point. The roofs
The Central European University (CEU)occupies four adjoining buildings within a compact urban block on a World Heritage Site in central Budapest. Planned to be carried out in a series of phases, the scheme involves the radical transformation of four
SANAA has in the end carried the day over Snøhetta in the competition for the commission to put Hungary’s National Gallery, with its collections dated between 1800 and 1950, and the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, covering the period from 1950 to
The U-shape building mass proposed emerges as a fold from the ground, ‘hugging’ the existing trees and generating shaded spaces, as well as a series of small courtyards that let natural light inside, inviting visitors to relax and enjoy contact with
Devised as a large sculpture in the park, the building’s marked identity is inspired by the calligraphic forms of musical notation; inside it harbors exhibition spaces and a stately staircase that also functions as a seating area.
The programs inhabit a series of cylinders of different sizes and uses, arranged around a vaulted 8-point star-shape platform supported by a series of columns, generating in this way a variety of spaces for a wide range of activities.
The project consists of a vast circular roof that levitates gently and meets the height of the treetops surrounding the building; a series of perforations let natural top light pass through, as does the dense and generous foliage of the park. The roo
Delicate, beguiling and studded with trees, the museum has landed in a Budapest park – but behind it is a controversial €1bn vision by rightwing populist leader Viktor Orbán. A great big crumpet appears to have landed in the middle of Budapest’s City
Set to join Sou Fujimoto’s House of Hungarian Music and SANAA’s National Gallery and Ludwig Museum within the future Liget cultural complex outside Budapest is the city’s new ethnographic museum, following a design by Napur Architect. The local firm
