This building is located by the Danube river with an excellent view of the castle the opposite side of the river. It’s currently being rebuilt but it’s as ugly as it used to be.
City Daily Photo Themes days are organised by citidailyphoto.com and this is the 2nd time I’ve participated. This month the theme is “No …” signs. The free translation of the plate is:
“Construction Are. Strangers do not cross.”
I think this building i gorgeous, so here’s another building from that neighborhood.
Please check here my first tentative.
For more city daily photo theme day posts by other participants, please click below. I also have one more photo left (another aspirant for this theme day). So pleas check it out along with other participants’ work.
This is the recently renewed Pesti Vigadó building viewed from the Danube. The state-owned building is under protection and it’s located at one of the most prestigious places, the Vigadó tér.
I had some pictures published of this building cluster of the Erick Van Egeraat studio 3 months ago when I started up this blog. Being a fan and not being able to take good picture lately, I’m publishing an old one of one of my favorite architecture themes of Budapest.
I’m still unable to post decent city photos so all I can do is either pick older pictures or keep posting wine labels. Today, once again, I decided to do the latter.
This wine is not that good btw (scored 3), so check my wine blog to find out about good Hungarian wines.
Lately I haven’t been able to take pictures in the city. All I can do is posting photos taken at home about wine bottles. Why not? These can be pretty and as you can see even cute, they can be found in huge quantities in my flat and they photograph well. So here they are, reviews of the wines can be found, as always, here.
This photo was taken in the heart of Budapest: 300 meters from Chain Bridge, from Szt. István Basilica, 100 m from Andrássy street. It’s a socialist realist nightmare. Kind of cool though.
Bországgyűlés is a yearly wine and food outdoor exhibition and fair following the Pannon Bormustra, a rather important national wine contest. “Full” coverage of the event is published on my Hungary Wine Reviews Blog, so let’s focus to the venue here. This is the smaller version of the Vajdahunyad castle of Romania, Transylvania to be more precise. It’s located in the Városliget park, where you can also find the Széchenyi Spa and the city Zoo by the Heros’ Square.
Another typical building from the late XIXth, early XXth century Budapest. These houses can still be found in big number in the ravaged VIIIth district. The area is more lucky than its neighbour IXth disctrict which has been undergoing block rehabilitation programmes in the past decade. In practice this meant destruction of stylish old buildings to give space for ugly, indistinctive cheap and bad quality new properties in this working class district of Budapest. Before too long we can probably expect projects like Corvin project taking place in this neighbourhood as well. It’s really a shame.
This is the facade of the old Hungária Fürdő in Dohány utca (in the VIIth district), an old spa which has been abandoned for decades now. Its day are probably counted, as this area is one of the most hit by the destructive expansion of new property developments by corrupt national and international property developers. This district has already seen some scandalous transactions and “developments”, but unfortunately the trend does not seem to break yet. It’s very said.
I don’t know the name of this architecture style, so anyone please help me out.
Budapest by the way has many thermal water springs, and Budapest has still many nice old spas which I hope can cover all soon on the pages of this blog.
I took this photo for the citydailyphoto.com theme day (monthly theme: corner shop).
Since I’m currently in Barcelona (yep, Primavera sound), I decided to post a photo from Barcelona which complies with this month’s theme (Hungarian corner shops are not that interesting anyway, trust me). So here it is.
Greetings from this fantastic city and sorry for cheating on theme day. I’ll be back soon.
See more market photos and other city daily photos below.
… and mirror image of the Parliament. This is metro line no. 2, one of 3 altogether in Budapest. The no.1 was actually the first continental underground in Europe, if I’m not mistaken.
Yep, Farger is right behind this.
The building on the left is a bank. The other one is residential. All located on Szabadság tér, by the American embassy. And by Farger coffe shop, which features a very cute dog, good bagels, cakes and coffee.
I know it’s weird, but somehow I think it’s kind of cool.
This is the house and the logo of the former state monopoly on Hercegprímás street, 5th district (downtown). The building is currently empty.
A typical building from downtown (Vth district), but one of the few with a view to the river and the Buda Castle across the Danube. By the way, if you would be visiting Budapest, I recommend that you take this tram (Nr 2) and you go on it from one end to the other. You can stop at several interesting spots such as the parliament, Budapest University of Economic Sciences (the old toll-house) and the nearby market and Vígadó tér. Almost the whole path is by the Danube river.
You can find more information about Szimpla Kertmozi in this post.
These 2 pictures were taken at the entrance. The first one is an installation located at the entrance corridor. The second one (below) seems like a home interior from the 70s. And it is probably: this room could have been the janitor’s room and they just kept it that way. Anyway, if you feel young, you shouldn’t miss this place if yo travel to Budapest.
