2024
Conceptual Design
The project to transform the former home of Hungary’s Stock Exchange into the country’s National Gallery centers on movement, openness and rediscovery.
A new public forecourt extends the surrounding park towards the Gallery, creating a civic space that naturally draws people into the building. A gently sloping promenade transforms the threshold into an experience, guiding visitors towards the restored central hall, once the symbolic heart of the building and now reimagined as a grand public room inside the historic dome.
Beneath this monumental volume, a contemporary architectural intervention reconnects the different levels of the edifice, revealing the scale and grandeur of the original spaces through a continuous sequence of views, light and movement. Rather than competing with the original fabric, the intervention amplifies its presence, reactivating spaces that had long remained hidden.
The experience continues upward to a new rooftop pavilion overlooking Budapest, introducing contemporary cultural spaces and public terraces within the historic complex. Linking landscape, architecture and skyline, the project establishes a dialogue between the city's past and future, transforming a heritage landmark into an open and dynamic cultural destination.
Web Design / Tommaso Cavallini; Text / Alice Caudera, Laura Cucchi, Donatella Brun; Translation / Richard Peace; Content management / Giorgia Maretta, Laura Presti, Constanza Coscia; Web development / Friweb.
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