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The design for the picturesquely sited small manor house is closely related to the project for the Artist’s House, particularly in the composition of the tower and adjacent gable placed wi
The Church-Building Committee established in 1883 in the settlement north of Budapest on the banks of the Danube originally commissioned László Gyalus to design a new Catholic church.
Design for a house with a small attic. The square ground plan with an entrance porch placed at the corner appears frequently in Kós’s sketch designs.
“Zrumeczky approached me with the news that we might receive a commission for the design, site supervision, and accounting of the Reformed parish building and prayer hall in Óbuda—if we
The Capital Zoo and Botanical Garden, originally opened in 1866, was taken over by the Municipality of Budapest in 1907, the same year in which a comprehensive reconstruction was
The Bird House is the central element of the pavilion group designed for the Zoo.
The Monkey House, the smaller Rodents House, and the Kangaroo House enclose a small square.
The lecture hall, the administrative building, and the bandstand were not realized (the bandstand, in a simplified form, was eventually built near the entrance).
“In the year of Our Lord 1653 I began to have the sheepfold at Szaka built by the Estanai carpenter János Bot. I had the old house newly shingled and added a porch to it.
“…in the corner appears the lower house of the ostriches, striking in its vivid colors; around it are large yards in which these large bird giants, kept in greater numbers, can roam.
“So that the rocky hill should not appear desolate, we place a small Norwegian house on its southern slope, along the axis of the great avenue of trees.
Among the pavilions, the Squirrel House is the smallest; nevertheless, it clearly expresses the structural hierarchy of stone, timber carpentry, and a tower roofed with shingles.