Building permit for the new campus of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the underground car park on Pollack Mihály Square has been issued
The renovation of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Headquarters, which was designed KÖZTI, is featured in the latest issue of OCTOGON magazine.
KÖZTI has designed the next residential building of the BudaPart quarter, BRI, to be built next to the central park.
Building permit for the Pécs Omics Center, designed with sustainable technology and an innovative wood and concrete hybrid structure, has been issued. The Omics Center will be built as an extension, the quasi fourth wing of the Szentágothai János Research Center (SZKK), but it will operate as an independent organization unit of the University of Pécs, primarily focusing on diagnostic research and service development, while the Institute of Medical Genetics will complement the clinical infrastructure. The new building will not only be a key element in the development of knowledge and health industries in the South Transdanubia region, but it also sets an example of modern, environmentally conscious architecture with its sustainable structural solutions.
This year marked the 7th time that KÖZTI’s team took on the Ultrabalaton, setting off once again with unwavering enthusiasm. The KÖZTIEAM completed the 209-kilometre distance around Lake Balaton in 17 hours and 58 minutes, achieving an impressive 23rd place among corporate teams out of 860, and finishing 96th overall out of 2,655 teams.
Our colleagues overcame every challenge together, running tirelessly even through the early hours of the morning, supporting one another as a true team. Along the way, we experienced the many faces of Lake Balaton: the scorching sunshine on the northern shore, the colors of the sunset in Fonyód, the starry sky along the southern shore, and finally the first rays of sunrise crowning our efforts at the finish line in Füred.
We also took part in the charitable campaign organized by NN Ultrabalaton and BioTechUSA, donating the deposit fee of our timing chip to support a good cause.
Members of the KÖZTI team were: István Bata, Veronika Borzsák, Andrea Eperjesi, Bence Hargitai, András Hollik, Barnabás Kiss, Kinga Kiss, Ágnes Pernesz, Dávid Petri, Nóra Sándor, Mirella Sétáló, Máté Szabó, Balázs Tóth, Kaplony Tölgyesi, and Virág Tölgyesi.
Thank you for the support!Congratulations to everyone on this outstanding achievement!
The Hungarian National Committee of ICOMOS awarded the renovation of the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with an ICOMOS Prize! The award was presented on the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites at the Esterházy Palace in Fertőd, and the prestigious recognition was received by the designers of the renovation, Bálint Kelemen and András Makay.
The headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which celebrated its bicentenary last year, has been renewed in many aspects. Based on the plans of KÖZTI, the renovation of the building’s most representative spaces—the Ceremonial Hall and the Gallery—has been completed. Our office began working on the building’s plans exactly five years ago, in April 2021, and by now the results of that extensive work have come to fruition.
As also highlighted in the laudation at the award ceremony, the fundamental principle of the design program was that by the end of the full renovation, the building and its spaces should reflect the Academy’s intention to open up towards society, while at the same time shaping and reinforcing its institutional prestige, and presenting its traditional values and heritage. The most important architectural objectives included correcting structural deficiencies, ensuring sustainable operation, improving accessibility and circulation, increasing the proportion of communal spaces, organizing functions into zones, and creating barrier-free vertical and horizontal circulation systems.
Architects: Bálint Kelemen, András Makay, Alfréd Peschka, Péter Pottyondy, Gergely Patak, Diána Virág-Nagy, Noémi Kinga Weinhandl, Melinda Bognár.
Our competition design for the kindergarten on Óbester Street has been published on ArchDaily. The article focuses on how architectural tools can shape learning environments to respond to changing social, ecological, and pedagogical needs. Key considerations included sustainability, a child-friendly scale, and a close relationship with nature – principles that were strongly emphasized throughout the design process.
In KÖZTI’s proposal, the functional building volumes surrounding the central linden tree form a strong composition: solid, block-like masses create a fortress-like structure that protects the inner world of the kindergarten and the tree itself. At the same time, the cloister connecting the volumes creates a transparent, walkable inner space, integrating the courtyard and the linden tree into the building’s daily life. It supports easy orientation, encourages movement among children, and, through spatial expansions at key points, creates high-quality shared spaces – whether at the entrance hall, the transition areas of the group rooms, or the foyer of the gym.
Architects: Bence Hargitai, Anna Sarnyai, Barnabás Kiss, Gábor Merza, Vera Maurer, Luca Ráber
https://www.archdaily.com/1038594/beyond-the-classroom-six-unbuilt-projects-rethinking-educational-architecture
The proposed collection centre is a rectangular building fit tightly into the site, organized around a central atrium. Enclosed storage areas are positioned along the outer façade, while offices and laboratories requiring natural light are concentrated around the atrium, in direct functional connection with each other. This layout results in a solid, monolithic exterior, while the workplaces open inward toward the atrium which has been conceived as the Garden of Eden.
Massing of the building has grown directly from the site layout, spatial form and functional arrangement constitute a single, interdependent unit. The architectural character has been inspired by the carving of a massive meteorite-like rectangular prism. The meteorite is one of the most extraordinary natural formations found on Earth. Wherever the compact volume is cut into, glass surfaces appear, providing natural daylight to the functions behind them. Just as the meteorite’s irregular, burnt outer crust conceals a remarkably pure, metallic, crystalline interior, the building’s exterior envelope is composed of raw-textured metal panels in earthy metallic tones, forming an irregular surface generated by a triangular geometry with varying peak projections. In contrast, the incisions in the mass reveal smooth, shimmering planar glass surfaces functioning as a climate façade. The stepped increase of the building mass is derived from the slicing of a block, similar to the layered structure of the meteorites. The flat roofs of the lower blocks of the buildig are green roofs.
Architecture: Tima Zoltán, Borbély András, Öcsi Gabriella DLA, Borzsák Veronika DLA, Tóth Balázs, Sarnyai Anna, Bárány Barót Bálint Visualization: Bózsó Barna Sustainability: Szulágyi Zsófia, Borzsák Veronika DLA Engineering: Makáry Csaba, Mottl Tamás Storage technology: Koltai György Bill of quantities: Nagy Balázs, Szabó Mátyás
The representative book, illustrated with many excellent photos and drawings, presents György Skardelli’s career as an architect, spanning several decades. In addition to the iconic buildings well-known to the residents of Budapest – such as the Budapest Arena, the MVM Dome, the Puskás Arena – we also get to know a children’s village built in a historic small town, the multifunctional hall of a former county seat, a high school building complex, the reception building of a thousand-year-old abbey, the research center of a global company and the sports arena of a university campus. Stories, drawings, photos – stages of a colorful career. Skardelli’s unusual autobiography brings to life his rich professional journey, revealing the often rather difficult and complex process that leads from the first sketches to the realization of a building. Yet, some of the excellent building designs and original ideas may remain forever in the drawer. It is Skardelli’s intention that the book will also serve as a lesson in this respect for talented young people preparing for a career as an architect.
The book, published by MMA Kiadó, was designed by Teodóra Hübner.
