The Vizafogó park and pavilion building won the Budapest architecture award
The XIII. Vizafogó park and pavilion building in the district won the Budapest Architectural Level Award this year, the Office of the Mayor informed MTI on Friday. The designers of the Attila 99 Loft apartment house, the KOZMO hotel and condominium apartments built in the former Józsefváros Telephone Exchange building, the surface layout of Bakáts tér and the connecting streets, the A15 villa and the Budafoki Zöldike Tagbölcsőde received praise.
The Budapest City Council announced in July and the Budapest Chamber of Architects organized a competition with works that improve the architectural image of the capital or the appearance of a city district. The work could be a new or rehabilitated building, structure, public space, interior space.
Vizafogó Park was handed over in the spring of 2022 (Photo: budapest13.hu)
The lake and the pavilion building on Vizafogó (Photo: Danyi Balázs/Archikon)
Awarded the Budapest Architecture Level Award, XIII. district Vizafoggo park and pavilion building designers, Csaba Nagy and Károly Pólus, as well as landscape architects János Hómann and Máté Pécsi created a public park from a plot of land originally intended for development, which improves the quality of life of the local population.
“The lake created by the landscaping of the plot, the lakeside pavilion building is closed by a fence and cannot be visited at night, so operation similar to the English square system, the well-selected vegetation, the ground well irrigation system and the public park functions created by community probing have resulted in such a well-formed oasis both in terms of landscape architecture and architecture created. created in the urban jungle, which makes the area of Vizafoggo a better place and enhances its value”, was highlighted in his praise.
They put it this way: “the area intended for construction from the industrial marshalling yards, and then the area that will be turned into a public park, is a story that Budapest can gladly and proudly tell anyone, and that will be a credit to its designers and clients.”
The designer of the Attila 99 Loft apartment house is Tibor Dékány and Ádám Hatvani. The building is a strange mixture of a civilian residential building and an industrial loft. “The designers took great care to preserve the character of the original house, the architectural details, and the structural solutions,” they praised.
The former Józsefváros Telephone Exchange in 2022 (Photo: Simon Tímea)
Gergely Draskóczy and Gabriella Mészáros designed the KOZMO hotel and condominium apartments in the former Józsefváros Telephone Center building. According to the award, there was a promising intervention from the point of view of urban development, “cleaning up the floor plan of the building, which was almost hopelessly rebuilt during the later renovations, and bringing it closer to the original condition.”
“Bakáts tér has become an important and good example of downtown public space rehabilitation,” wrote landscape architects István Steffler and György Szloszjár, praising and adding that the final and realized plans contain less representation, more significant traffic calming and more greenery, which is overall calmer, more charming, they make the location more humane and of high aesthetic quality in its street view.
The parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi on the renewed Bakáts tér (Photo: Róbert Juharos/pestbuda.hu)
Villa A15 in Zugliget was designed by Katalin Fazekas and Árpád Vilics. According to the praise, the building suggests harmony: its installation, space occupation, and restraint are exemplary. The reviewers praised the rational layout of the Budafoki Zöldike Tagbölcsőde designed by Csaba Nagy and Károly Pólus, which is paired with a sensitive interior design concept. They wrote that the designer’s attitude covering every detail sets an example to follow for future designers of spaces for small children.
Again this year, the committee awarded those outstanding ideas and concepts that are worthy of the city’s past, provide a definite presence and follow-up answers to the challenges of the future. The awards were presented on Friday in Budapest, at the FUGA Budapest Architectural Center, where an exhibition of the works submitted to the competition opened.
The designer of the building awarded the architectural level award received a commemorative plaque, and the designers who were awarded a commendation received a certificate in addition to the monetary reward.
Source: MTI
Opening image: The Vizafogó park and pavilion building won this year’s Budapest architecture award (Photo: budapest13.hu)