Unbuilt Budapest: 150 years of architectural visions in Budapest
On Budapest’s 150th birthday, we take a look at some of the non-realised architectural visions of the capital’s architectural design in the period of the past 150 years.
What would the Danube Embankment look like with high-rise buildings? What would a French skyscraper look like next to the Budapest Arena? What was the vision of the capital’s metro lines like in the 1950s? What would the world’s largest synagogue situated in Budapest’s Újlipótváros district look like?
The exhibition ‘Unbuilt Budapest. Designs, dreams and visions from 150 years of the capital’s architecture’ opens the doors of architectural imagination: it presents a wide range of ideas from the past century and a half, with the help of photographs, original plans, reproductions and models. The common denominator is that they were all made for the Hungarian capital and all remained on paper. Yet they cannot be considered useless: they accurately reflect the social, cultural and eco...
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