This is just a regular new building (on Szabadság tér btw). If you click below however and check the next one, you’ll see a wall and inside the building another one, the first currently being supported by a steel structure. You can spot some of this type in the city today. I only can hope that the reason is that they would like to keep and preserve the old architecture at least on the front-side.
Barbecues in Hungary are very popular. But I took this photo just for the sake of it.
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These iron balls represent bullets shot on the building of Budapest Ministry of Agriculture during the revolution in 1956. This is not a political statement by me, I was interested in taking a shot of these solely from an artistic point of view.
The whole city (building walls) are full of bullets mostly from WW2 by the way, original ones, I mean.
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Budapest and its inhabitants have been notorious about their inability of designing and building cool buildings. Corruption and maximization of the return on their investment have been driving to awful projects in the past 18 years or so. With very few exceptions, new buildings arr of poor quality and similar look without style. This building, located near the Gresham Palace (Four Seasons Hotel Budapest) is no exception. Its predecessor was not any better though, but this fact does not justify the existence of this featureless building. I’m a fan of constructivism and this photo might even look cool, but you should see it - it’s not.
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This amazing building is located right in front of Lánchíd (better known abroad as Chain Bridge) on the Pest side. I remember this having been an old, abandoned deep gray building before its privatization in the late 90s. Today it’s one of the most glamorous buildings in Budapest and the best hotel (Four Seasons Budapest, *****), with an excellent restaurant (Páva Kávéház), expectedly the first Michelin-start restaurant of Budapest (yep, we are still short of it). You’ll be able to read my Budapest restaurant reviews very soon btw (please come back next week), but ’til then, you could checkout this recently started wine guide.
This post is dedicated to Helen (Dogeared), whom probably seen this building as described here. Whilst you won’t miss the building (it’s definitely located near a major tourist spot), but Helen’s right, if you have a chance to get it, do it and have a look, it’s really outstanding.
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Did you miss the squat movement in Berlin in the 90s? Don’t worry, as part of Hungary’s retro revival, some courts managed to survive the aggressive expansion of horrible property development projects in the historical city center.
Szimpla Kertmozi is a partly open-air movie theater, today mostly frequented by university students and other intellectuals. It is located in the neighborhood of the former Jewish ghetto. As a middle-class area during the pre-WW2 era, despite the house demolitions, the area is still reserving some of its old nostalgic charm. Click below for an image of the entrance so you recognize it from outside.
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These 2 images were shot for the VFXY weekly theme “reflection”. I missed the deadline though, but I like these images. Because they’re so Austrian to me. This building is part of the Gasometer cluster’s complementary block in Wien.
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Well, it’s not exactly Budapest but it could be. The similarities are endless. The differences too. Architecture and history have lot in common in the two cities.
Please click below to see more. And by clicking below, you’ll find a bit more enjoyable size and resolution.
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tagged as Andrássy, Architecture, Art, Cliché, downtown, main tourist spot, pest, VI
I’m sorry but more Bratislava and Wien photos will follow soon. But for now, this is another photo of a building you’ll certainly meet when you’re in Budapest: the Budapest Opera house, but from an angle most tourists never see. So enjoy.
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This is supposed to be a Budapest photos blog, but this is my favorite building in Wien, only appr. 260km from Budapest, and with all the history and existing similarities in architecture I think it’s reasonable to share this photo here. As well as the Bratislava photos.
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This old railway bridge in Bratislava - out of service as it seems - is simply gorgeous in my opinion. The other bridge right beside this one is still in use by vehicles.
The following picture shows the same bridge from a different angle.
This post is part of the citidailyphoto.com theme day (Numbers). Since I’ve started writing a blog about Hungarian wines recently, it helped me with finding the object of this months’ theme. If you’re interested in wines btw, your visit to my wineguide is much appreciated (there you can read more about the sotry of this bottle too.) The label’s almost totally rotten because of the humidity in my dad’s cellar.
To find interesting pictures about numbers in other cities, please continue reading this post and you’ll find about a hundred other sites’ material, many of them really nice.
Budapest Alkotás Point office center in Buda.
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Another photo of the Budapest Opera building. The main entrance is from the Andrássy avenue.
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