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GUBAHÁMORI . photos: © Balázs Danyi

Remeteszőlős is located at the foot of the Buda Hills, north of the village centre there are protected forests since 1983, and the centre of the village is also characterised by intensive, multi-level green spaces. Until 1970, the area was a site of agricultural production belonging to the neighbouring municipality, which was converted into a recreation area after parcelling out in 1972-73. Until the early 2000s, the settlement was characterised by small, light-construction or brick-built holiday cottages and small service buildings functioning as weekend houses. In the last 20 years, however, there has been a strong change in character, with larger, more complex and more enclosed detached houses, as part of the suburbanisation process in Budapest, beginning to transform the settlement, and with this the character of the greenery in the town centre is losing its former strength. Continue reading GUBAHÁMORI

GUBAHÁMORI . photos: © Marietta Varga

BudaPart is a new large-scale urban development project carried out in the south-central part of Budapest, in Hungary. In the middle of this area lies the substation of ELMŰ, one of Hungary’s major power companies, the electricity supplier to the southern areas of Budapest. In 2018, the developer had launched an open call for architectural designs to change the building’s unfriendly industrial identity. The first prize was awarded to GUBAHÁMORI design team that introduced a new design utilizing the characteristic porcelain and glass insulators of its high-voltage electricity networks. Continue reading GUBAHÁMORI

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If the whole area of Gellért Hill was flat, this UNESCO World Heritage Site would be the most visited and popular green area in the heart of Budapest, where friends have barbecue at the weekends or families jump in on the way home from kindergarten; a place where the elderly could possibly spend their active and passive recreation time, disabled people could get close to accessible nature, musicians would be jamming and people could start the day here with yoga. The only problem is that this hill, in the past 5-6 decades, became more like an enclosure, a dead exhibit only visited by tourists, than a lively urban space for local citizens.

Not much is missing, though. Continue reading GUBAHÁMORI