Architects: HORVÁTH Lajos, MOLNÁR Tibor
The first golf and wellness hotel in Hungary is located within the site of the internationally recognized Birdland Golf & Country Club, fully integrated to it. The contours of the curved layout of the building has been drawn with broken lines, the height of the rambling, slightly rustic house and the rhythm of its facades are varied. These features help to fit the large volume of the building into the undulating, woody, attractive landscape.
The 207-room, five-star golf and wellness hotel has been built on the plot of the Birdland Golf & Country Club, an internationally standardized 18-hole, 72 par course operating at Bükfürdő since 1991; the hotel has direct view of the golf course. One of the most important aspects of the hotel design was the establishment of harmony with its natural environment. The slight incline leading up to the main entrance, pleasantly highlighted by a row of pools and a fountain, is edged by strips of vegetation on both sides, hiding the parking lots, richly planted with trees. The two lower, public floors of the building are occupied by areas catering to the guests: restaurants and a large capacity kitchen, the conference and ballroom, the golf club, and the wellness and therapeutic units. Most of these areas have direct connection to the surrounding park through terraces. The curved layout allows different visual and functional solutions for the integration of the external and internal spaces in an easily navigable and pleasing way. The public areas on the ground floor are connected by a system of cosy indoor passages: starting from the foyer in one direction, there is a restaurant, a pub, a club and a lecture hall. In the other direction, through the winter garden, there is the spa with wellness services, a swimming pool, a thermal pool and a pool with water features, a children’s pool and a swimming exit to the outdoor pool. In the wellness unit, there is a sauna, a steam cabin, a fitness and aerobics hall, a beauty parlour and other therapeutic units, a medical room, an electric and hydrotherapy unit and a massage parlour. The guest rooms and suites, designed according to the regulations of the Radisson SAS hotel chain, are located along central corridors on the three upper floors. There are rows of loggias in front of them, providing for a pleasant rest, protected from rain and sun. The service, staff and mechanical rooms are located in the basement and also in the attic.
The building has been built with in-situ reinforced concrete structure. Natural materials have been used on the facades: there is stone cladding up to the height of the first floor and plaster above. There are dark coloured plain tiles on the pitched roof. The popularity of this hotel proves that golf can be associated with a kind of country feeling, but also with a wellness lifestyle, becoming more and more popular today. The hotel was voted the best Hungarian conference hotel in 2006 and the best Hungarian wellness hotel in 2007.
Location: Bükfürdő, Golf út 4. Built: 2004 Architects: HORVÁTH Lajos, MOLNÁR Tibor Associate architects: FARKAS Zsófia, LADICS Ilona Interior architect: SCHINAGL Gábor Landscape architect: CSONTOS Péter Area: 23,600 m2
