Comments on: Landmark Building of Szervita Square by Zaha Hadid

By: slp

slp — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:53:45 +0000

remindes me of the bullring in Birmingham. i don’t like it much but i do like the idea of adding to an existing set of buildings from different times, where we would usually avoid adding our modern architecture.

By: Oka

Oka — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:50:38 +0000

not bad

By: transylvania

transylvania — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:09:30 +0000

Don’t come with the pyramid of the Louvre…it has a good proportion related to the building…you cannot compare that and this. On the Szervita square there are at least 2 important historical buildings: a secession built and an old and beautiful church. That glass-pillow will rule over all the square, outgrowing all the buildings, shading street-accesses, and being anunintegrated giant in Budapest’s historic landscape. Parking houses are needed, ugly cubic stuff shoud go, but, that balloon should treat that space more gently.

By: Jade Doel

Jade Doel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:50:45 +0000

And Renzo Piano’s and Richard Roger’s, Center Pompidou, in Paris.

By: Jade Doel

Jade Doel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:33:18 +0000

How could SHE do that. Hadid is a woman.

By: Before

Before — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:58:12 +0000

Well, as I already wrote here, this isn’t a really historical part of Budapest. However I think it’s absoltely not impossible if anyone would build a modern stuff like this next to the Pisa tower. There are no such thing like Pisa tower in that area.
As I mentioned the place has an ugly cubic parking house made by concrete with a small gas station at the floor level. If you imagne you’re standing on the last picture, there would be a relatively modern building behind you. Staying on that picture you can see a building on the right side (behind the statue), that’s a fugly “modern” building from the late 70’s or the 80’s.
Well, did you hear about the pyramid of the Louvre?

By: enid from transylvania

enid from transylvania — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:37:25 +0000

I think this does not imrove that place at all.
Emil Michael is RIGHT…
That “drop” does not improve anything… the URBAN density is very high there already, and just think about it… would anybody allow such a modern design for instance next to the tower of Pisa? Becouse there also is a large unused space, besides why not to use it, for example for a plaza…? Nonsense. Such things can happen where money rules over built treasures and environment… shameful… shouldn’t have been called Zaha at the competition, or her design should have been placed elsewhere in Budapest.

By: Before

Before — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:28:22 +0000

Dear Emil,

This is a plan. It as no permission to build up, yet. However there’s an ugly concrete cube now what doesn’t fit to the city neither. This building looks very interesting and could fit to the city. When the plans popped up first time there was a huge chat about and the hungarians seemed to accept the idea. Not all of us, but the biger half.
I can’t imagne where do you smell that corruption…

By: random

random — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:26:43 +0000

Is this made of curved glass? or is it triangulated? biiig difference for the final aspect. if it’s curved, who pays for this (the necessary tens of millions E ?). if it’s triangulated buy buy water-drop image…

By: Emil Michael

Emil Michael — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:23:51 +0000

Dear Zaha,

What will people, living / working in the shadowed building behind your architectural wonder say about their stolen sunshine although the glass-transparent looking construction?
Don’t you think such styling contrast and extreme density of overbuilding a historical plaza of the beautiful Budapest with specific atmosphere could be well accepted by hungarians?
I don’t think such overbuilding has been normally approved by Hungarian urban regulations – I rather feel a strong smell of corruption here.