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“In 1923, the Renner Brothers leather factory in Cluj (the predecessor of today’s Clujana Leather and Shoe Factory) announced a competition for the development of a workers’ housing estate and for
The villagers purchased the still-existing small wooden church of the neighboring village of Sztána and renovated it according to Kós’s designs, adding a new stone tower.
The unbuilt design of a small L-shaped holiday house was intended for one of the city’s hills.
“Around this time he designed the buildings of the Iris porcelain factory in Cluj (still widely known by this name today), which were subsequently constructed.
This was the first of several churches designed or renovated by Károly Kós for local Romanian congregations. The existing wooden church was sold to the neighboring village of Kispetri.
In its conceptual approach, this design essentially reiterates the earlier Calvinist church in Cluj (1912–1913): the interior space is organized along a longitudinal linear axis, closer in characte
The sketch designs reveal a concept entirely different in character from the building that was ultimately realized.
The school buildings designed by Károly Kós in Sepsiszentgyörgy are closely connected to the organizational efforts following the change of sovereignty, as the missing educational infrastructure ha
“I worked for him [Bánffy] several times also as an engineer: I remodeled his apartment in Cluj, and at Bonțida I restored one of the bastions and carried out interior works as well.
Before the war, Andor Malmos served as chief engineer of the Royal Engineering Office in Sepsiszentgyörgy (Háromszék); in this capacity, he represented the state in supervising the construction of
Among the Romanian churches designed by Károly Kós, the church at Feiurdeni is a true outlier.
The cultural center in Nagybacon was designed by Károly Kós contemporaneously with the Reformed church in Barót (1927).