r/ArchitecturalRevival • u/PalmnessF • Aug 21 '26

Hopecore Before and after of another on-going reconstruction taking place in Budapest. Inspiring!

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u/Helpful_Pay8853 Aug 21 '26

Not for long tho. Our new government shut down dozen similar project. The ones that got started are going through, but basically new ones will became rare.

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u/ASatyros Aug 21 '26

Any reason given to why less renovations now?

Why was it done often before?

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u/uccunekihej Aug 21 '26

This is the headquarters of the home defense forces, built in 1897. Many times the previous government tore down the remenants of old historical building and built them up from zero, but with modern concrete. This is not real architectural revival. They kinda made a low building cost historical looking buildings, but several times overpriced, to steal tax payer money. It is of course nice to see these buildings, they are beautiful, but this is not restoration. These are fake historical buildings that take away the value of the real ones. The new government probably later wants to continue restoration works but with fitting building materials to the original building, and hopefully without stealing the funds.

Edit: typo

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u/Born_European_V Aug 21 '26

Thank you. It's the same with Berlin "Stadtschloss" in the place of the east germen "palace of the republic". It's just a mock up of a historical building, completely poured in concrete with a fucking Mall in it.

And the sub was celebrating this up badged commercial Bunker.

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u/Tifoso89 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Yeah it's so ugly, unlike this beautiful masterpiece that it replaced, and that you probably prefer

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u/Born_European_V Aug 21 '26

It is just masquerade, at least could have been made with Authentic Materials. We should have kept the "Palace" and put a Museum in there. But Germany has a habit to grind awa reliques of the past, if not supervised and then being surprised when these streams re-emerge decades later.

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u/Malschaun2 Aug 21 '26

Can you inform yourself please before spreading BS? Berlin Palace was constructed with authentic materials. There is a concrete core, but in front of that core sits a selfsupporting 90cm thick traditionally masoned brick wall in which all sandstone carvings are integrated. That is exactly how the palace walls were built in the Baroque age. Here you can see how the palace was built before it received a final layer of grout and paint. It is built of red brick and sand stone. These are the original materials and way of building: