Snøhetta unveils masterplan for island-like student district in Budapest
A masterplan drawn up by architecture firm Snøhetta envisions an "island" neighbourhood for 12,000 students off the Danube river in south Budapest. More
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"Infinite" spiralling staircases in Budapest captured in photography by Balint Alovits
Balint Alovits' photography series Time Machine features architectural staircases in Bauhaus and art deco-style buildings in Budapest, Hungary. More
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Foster + Partners' Budapest tower will be built despite city's new skyscraper ban
Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners' plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. More
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UNStudio designs major bridge for the Danube river in Budapest
Dutch studio UNStudio has won a competition to create a road, tram, cycle and pedestrian crossing over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. More
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Foster + Partners unveils plans for Budapest's tallest building
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to create a sustainable office campus for a Hungarian oil and gas company, centred around a 28-storey skyscraper. More
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O'Donnell + Tuomey uses "surgical strategy" to link new and old buildings of Budapest university
As part of a huge revamp of the Central European University, Irish architecture firm O'Donnell + Tuomey has added a new limestone-clad building to a street in downtown Budapest. More
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Napur Architect wins Budapest museum contest with huge skateboard-ramp design
Hungarian firm Napur Architect has been selected ahead of BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects to design a major new museum in Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More
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Bjarke, Rem and Zaha battle to join Sou Fujimoto and SANAA at Budapest museum park
BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects have all been shortlisted to design a major new museum in Budapest, which will be built alongside cultural buildings by SANAA and Sou Fujimoto. More
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Position Collective tailors Budapest apartment towards Airbnb guests
Hungarian firm Position Collective has renovated a Budapest studio flat, designing a furniture and storage system that caters for temporary occupants booking via Airbnb (+ slideshow). More
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SANAA chosen over Snøhetta in Budapest gallery competition
Japanese studio SANAA has seen off competition from Norwegian firm Snøhetta to design a new national gallery in Budapest's City Park. More
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Snøhetta and SANAA share first place in Budapest museum contest
Norwegian firm Snøhetta and Japanese studio SANAA have been awarded joint first place in a competition to design one of the five new museums planned for Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More
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Construction starts on O'Donnell + Tuomey's Budapest university redesign
News: work has begun on a redevelopment of Budapest's Central European University by Irish firm O'Donnell + Tuomey, winners of this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal (+ slideshow). More
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Sou Fujimoto to create House of Hungarian Music at new Budapest museum park
News: Sou Fujimoto is one of three architects that have been selected to design buildings for a Hungarian museum complex in Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More
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Hello Wood builds Budapest Christmas tree from 5000 pieces of firewood
Hungarian architecture studio Hello Wood has created an 11-metre-high Christmas tree for a square in central Budapest from 15,000 kilograms of wooden logs (+ movie). More
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Cavernous Budapest metro stations feature concrete lattice overhead
Criss-crossing concrete beams brace the excavated walls of two new stations that have been added to the metro network in Budapest by local studio Spora Architects. More
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Long Brick House by Foldes Architects accommodates a 17-metre-long bookshelf
This long and narrow brick house outside Budapest, by Foldes Architects, integrates a 17-metre-long library wall that accommodates the owners' expansive book collection (+ slideshow). More
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Budapest cafe with vaulted brick ceilings by Spora Architects
Following our earlier story about a tea house in Prague, here's another cafe with vaulted ceilings by Hungarian studio Spora Architects, in a two-hundred-year-old former palace in Budapest (+ slideshow). More
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Christmas tree made from sledges
The 365 wooden sledges used to construct this Christmas tree in Budapest by Hungarian designers Hello Wood will be given to a local children's charity following the festive period (+ movie). More
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Spar supermarket displays groceries between curved wooden ribs
Dutch supermarket Spar's flagship store in Budapest features a series of undulating wooden forms through its interior by local firm LAB5 architects (+ slideshow). More
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Renovation of the Rácz Thermal Bath by Budapesti Műhely
Hungarian studio Budapesti Műhely has restored the interior of one of Budapest's oldest bathhouses by replacing the vaulted walls of the warm water hall and shower room, leaving the bubble-shaped backs exposed (+ slideshow). More
