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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MÁS founders weld their own minimal wedding chapel from steel
The founders of studio MÁS have built a minimal chapel from pieces of curving steel, for their own wedding in rural Hungary. 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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AUW creates woolly walled pavilion in rural Hungary
Fleecy surfaces create a cosy setting inside this pavilion in western Hungary, which architecture studio AUW hope visitors will use as a space to host "therapy sessions with themselves". 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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Béres Architects reveals old stone walls in Hungarian guesthouse renovation
Béres Architects made the original stone walls the stand-out feature when renovating this apartment inside a 400-year-old building in the medieval old town of Kőszeg in 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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NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ 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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L.Art Architectural Office adds white funeral chapel to Hungarian cemetery
A cross made from two steel I-beams frames the entrance to this bright white funeral chapel in Hungary, by local firm L.Art Architectural Office (+ slideshow). 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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Studio Nomad's mirror installation reflects fragments of forest at a Hungarian music festival
A harlequin pattern of mirrors enveloped a patch of Hungarian woodland in this installation created by Budapest-based Studio Nomad for a summer music festival (+ slideshow). More
