Budapest, VIIIth district

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.