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Budapest Beauty

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Budapest Beauty

The architecture of Budapest, the former Capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

17/09/2025

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23/11/2024

“I sat in front of it for many, many hours, and I couldn’t even see it with my eyes. This tree is like a national epic, like a heroic poem preserving the events and power of centuries, one wants to kneel before it like a temple reaching to the heavens. If I were a pagan, I would accept this beautiful, clever tree as my god” - this is how Sophie Török, wife of Mihály Babits, described the ancient plane tree on Margaret Island in 1937.

This year, the Londan Plane tree is 200 years old!

The plane tree was probably planted in 1823 by József nádor (1776-1847), who turned the island into a magnificent park during his lifetime. He was very fond of this family of plants. So many were planted in the 19th century as a result of his activities (and the examples from Paris and London) that this period is known in horticulture as the ‘plane tree era’. The oldest plane trees in Budapest date from these decades. The tree has been a venerated tree since mythological times, which shows that it also grows in the Mediterranean countryside, which is where it really loves to grow. The Academy of Athens, for example, after which the citadels of science were later named, was in fact a shady park planted with plane trees. Some ancient legends also say that a tree only becomes truly lush when watered with wine.

Here, on Margaret Island, it seems to have found a good place. Its trunk is nearly six and a half metres in circumference (a small group of toddlers would need to surround it), its height is a good forty metres, and its canopy can reach fifty metres in diameter at its widest point. It is said to be such an exceptionally beautiful specimen that its photographs have been published as specimens in horticultural magazines around the world for some time.

Next to the plane tree is the chapel of the 900-year-old Premonterei Order. Budapest’s oldest bell is in its tower, which was found intact among the roots of a tree after a huge storm on Margaret Island in 1914, which toppled trees.

06/10/2024

Budapest, Szabadság tér, in the background you can see the block between Vécsey street - Honvéd street and Honvéd street - Aulich street. 1906.

24/08/2024

Just an elevator in Budapest downtown..

26/06/2024

The Dohány Street Synagogue in 1894.

The Dohány Street Synagogue is the largest synagogue of Hungarian Neologic Judaism, and the largest in Europe. It stands in the former Jewish quarter, 7th district.
The synagogue was put out to tender a century and a half ago, with proposals submitted by some of the most prominent architects of the day, such as József Hild, in the neoclassical style. The Austrian architect Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a professor at the Vienna Academy, won the competition with his Moorish-style design for the grand synagogue (he had also designed the Vienna Grand Synagogue earlier), which was completed in less than five years, a record time even at the time. The synagogue was officially inaugurated on 6th September 1859.
The synagogue builder’s work was governed by ancient rules. First and foremost, the synagogue’s façade must face eastwards towards Jerusalem: this is why a small fault line was created at the entrance to the Dohany Street synagogue, which is different from the street.
Above the gate is a biblical quotation : “Vehoashu li mikdash, bocham of the Vosakhant”. “And let them make me a sanctuary to dwell among them.” The sum of the numerical value of the letters marked with an asterisk gives the date of the synagogue’s construction, 1859.
The openwork rose window above the scriptural phrase is one of the main sources of light in the interior. The windows on either side are shaped to imitate the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. As if to emphasise the religious character of the building.

24/06/2024

Art Nouveau spread around the world in the early 20th century, although its names and stylistic features differed from country to country: while French Art Nouveau favoured natural forms, and Viennese Art Nouveau geometry, in Hungary folk art elements were combined with the basic forms.
The first signs of Art Nouveau appeared here in the 1890s, but the graceful and rounded forms soon spread throughout the country. Although its history ended with the First World War, our built environment still bears witness to its memory.
The building under Szűz utca 5-7, designed by István Nagy, is one of the hidden Art Nouveau treasures of Józsefváros (8th district), as is the special Szűz utca, which exists as a tiny island, running into a pedestrian street. The decorations of the lobby, the corridors and the wrought-iron railings of the main staircase, which wind like a spiral, are decorated with bouquets of flowers, hearts, and, in essence, with Matyó embroidery. The architect could not have denied that he was greatly influenced by the great master of Art Nouveau, Ödön Lechner.

This house is the little brother of the Szenes House on Thököly Street, while the latter is full of butterfly shapes, the apartment house built in 1907 and attributed to the theatre director and writer Jenő Rákosi bears them in its floor plan. Looking up from the centre of the courtyard, a huge butterfly appears. The butterfly was a particularly popular motif for a style that was drawn to the dream world, to the symbols of the unconscious world newly ‘discovered’ by Freud. The butterfly was already a symbol of the psyche, the immortal soul, in Greek mythology (the name itself comes from the name of Eros’ love, Psyche).
On the top floor, two studios have been added above the cornice, accompanied by a very pleasant roof terrace. The artists’ colony was famous for its gatherings of friends, where Lajos Gulácsy, who lived in nearby Rigó Street, also liked to visit. The house was also home to several artists and performers...

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20/06/2024

Swan arches in Hattyú utca 16….
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01/06/2024

ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS

We can read on the fresco at the entrance gate of the Révész villa.

Skillfulness takes time and time is short. L’art est long, la vie est brève. Life is short, but art is eternal.
It’s a quote from an aphorism by the ancient Greek doctor Hippokrates.

Life is short,
and craft long,
opportunity fleeting,
experimentations perilous,
and judgment difficult.

The villa at Városligeti fasor 40, which has both Art Nouveau and pre-modern features inside and out, was built between 1914 and 1915, just one hundred and ten years ago, for Sámuel Révész and his wife, Lili Stern. The artist couple lived in this building and had their studio here. At the time of the villa’s construction, the now less busy promenade was beginning to be built up and the formerly vast gardens were gradually disappearing.

The villa is named after the architect-owner, as its designs were the work of the architectural duo Sámuel Révész and József Révész, who together designed around 150 buildings in Budapest. The two professionals met in the office of Henrik Schmahl, who was born in Hamburg but settled in Hungary, and worked together from 1900 until the beginning of the First World War. Their shared office was located at 12 Zrínyi Street. Their early works often incorporate neo-Gothic elements, while later designs, such as the Fasor villa, show the freer forms of German Jugendstil and the geometric motifs of the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna.

Visiting with

27/05/2024

This is the house of the dancing doves. Boráros tér 3. was designed by the Vágó brothers, and built in 1905. The building clearly bears the stylistic elements of the Gresham Palace, signed by Zsigmond Quittner but attributed to József Vágó.

His distinctive style is an exquisitely crafted middle ground between the work of Ödön Lechner and Otto Wagner of Vienna: between the passionate surge of Hungarian Art Nouveau and the more austere, geometric style of the Viennese cosmopolitan movement.

Every detail of the building is a Gesamtkunstwerk masterpiece. József Vágó himself designed the complex decorations in the staircases, the inner courtyard, the windows and the gate, which have their roots in Hungarian folk art. The main basis is the sensitive treatment of the floral ornamentation, while the real jewel is the exquisitely stylized formulation of the bird paintings, which are associated with the Wiener Werkstätte movement. The pairs of pigeons facing each other accompany the Vágó brothers’ creations all the way from the Gresham Insurance Company’s headquarters to Szabadka.

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