The contest sought a multidisciplinary team to draw up a scheme to regenerate an abandoned 86ha railway yard in the Hungarian capital. The site was recently acquired by the Budapest Metropolitan Municipality.<\/p>\n
The winning submission was led by French architect Coldefy<\/a> and also included Marko&Placemakers, CityF\u00f6rster, Sporaarchitects, Treibhaus Land.<\/p>\n Second place went to a collaboration between Cologne\u2019s Astoc Architects and Planners, while joint third place went to a team led by Superwien of Vienna and a team led by Chybik + Kristof, featuring London practice Gumuchdjian Architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n The jury described the winning proposal as a \u2018strong, distinctive urban architectural vision\u2019, highlighting its proposal for \u2018a liveable residential environment\u2019 and \u2018the exceptional quality of its public space system.\u2019<\/p>\n The scheme will transform the existing railway station into a new multimodal hub featuring a plaza providing a year-round civic space for markets and cultural events. Former railway buildings and depots will meanwhile be repurposed as a cultural centre featuring a municipal library and a railway museum.<\/p>\n Coldefy partner Zolt\u00e1n Neville said: \u2018The project envisions an urban framework that is open, adaptable and inclusive.<\/p>\n \u2018Rather than fixed narratives, we propose open systems and spatial stories that can communicate and evolve over time \u2013 shaped by occupation and reinterpretation to create a place that belongs to the future.<\/p>\n \u2018Our design learns from Budapest\u2019s past, engages with its present and prepares for what is to come.\u2019<\/p>\n Budapest\u2019s mayor, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony, who chaired the competition jury, said: \u2018During the evaluation process, the submitted proposals were assessed in detail across multiple criteria, leading to a complex and integrated decision on which concept offers the strongest response to the future of the area.<\/p>\n \u2018In fact, we are not closing a process but starting one: we now have the team we will work with in the coming years, and this is the most important outcome of the competition.\u2019<\/p>\n R\u00e1kosrendez\u0151 is immediately north of Budapest City Park, home to a range of landmark venues including the historic Sz\u00e9chenyi thermal bath and the Pannon Park Biodome in the Budapest Zoo, designed by Paulinyi-Reith & Partners.<\/p>\n Over the next 15 years, the scheme, backed by the Budapest Capital Asset Management Centre, will transform the large underused brownfield site into a new urban district.<\/p>\n The masterplan is expected to deliver a new dense yet liveable area with a public space network, urban centre, and parkland, designed to accommodate up to 10,000 apartments and a gross floor area of 1,250,000m\u00b2.<\/p>\n Judges included Zolt\u00e1n Er\u0151, chief architect of Budapest; Beatrix Frankfurt, senior project expert at BFVK; and Andreas Trisko, director of urban development at the City of Vienna.<\/p>\n The competition had a \u00a3315,000 (141 million HUF) prize fund with the overall winner receiving \u00a340,000 (18 million HUF).<\/p>\n In recent years, Budapest has been the focus of several large-scale regeneration projects.<\/p>\n The R\u00e1kosrendez\u0151 competition comes four years after Grimshaw won a competition<\/a> to overhaul and expand Budapest\u2019s main Nyugati station. In 2021, Studio Egret West won the \u00a315,000 third prize in a competition for a major retrofit of Budapest\u2019s abandoned market halls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The contest sought a multidisciplinary team to draw up a scheme to regenerate an abandoned 86ha railway yard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,32737,1120,96,180830,43216,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-budapest","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-marko-placemakers","15":"tag-masterplan","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}