2016 - 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Fields of intervention: architecture, interior design and landscape design
The project was born from the unification of three adjoining buildings, each with different stories, courtyards and facades, into a single building, seeking to maintain the correct balance between restoration and innovation.
The intervention involved the city block that includes the Weber building (1873), the former Neo-Renaissance headquarters of the United Budapest Metropolitan Savings Bank, the Mahart building (1913), the art nouveau former headquarters of the Hungarian River and Sea Shipping Company and the Munnich building (1937), a modernist edifice with art deco and Bauhaus elements.
A GLASS ROOF AS A UNIFYING ELEMENT
The architectural project reconfigures the roofs into a new piano nobile
that can be used by hotel clients, residents and the general public alike.
This architectural gesture carries over into the very heart of the building,
transforming the three small enclosures into a single courtyard of generous
proportions featuring an all-season covered garden open to the rest of the city
and offering a wonderful prospect for the rooms fronting onto it.
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A SECRET GARDEN
To maintain the luminosity of the interior spaces, the facades overlooking the courtyard
are entirely in glass, whilst perimetral balconies and vertical elements in wood offer
protection and enable the influx of light to be balanced with the need for privacy.
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORANEITY
The historical context and the enhancement of important architectural features
is also the starting point for the development of the hotel's interior design,
where the interpretative matrix is again contemporary and introduces
unexpected and sometimes ironic elements.
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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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