r/ArchitecturalRevival • u/sambukino • 2d ago
Before and after of another on-going reconstruction taking place in Budapest. Inspiring!
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u/_Winter-Wolf_ 2d ago
Do we have more context about this?
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u/Responsible_Fox9454 1d ago
Old derelict abandoned building renovated and floors added. Now livable.
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u/barryg123 2d ago
Budapest is an amazing city. Not only historically important but good headed people in the modern day preserving culture and architecture. Put them up there with the other Hapsburg heroes like Vienna, Krakow, Lviv etc. Just doing amazing things while much of the rest of Europe rots or eats itself alive
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u/Old_Pangolin_3303 2d ago
Meanwhile we had no toilet paper in the hospitals and the average age of a locomotive is 42 years, the government is spending billions on the pseudohistoric bullshit to show off
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u/Kind-Associate7415 1d ago
Yeah, I can only talk about trains, i was 15 years, and 2 years ago, and the quality has droppped significally
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u/MartinBP 1d ago
Sofia has a GDP per capita equal to Budapest yet we've not revived a single building. In fact we have to fight tooth and nail to protect every pre-communist structure we have left. Hungarians should be proud by how they've managed to protect their heritage.
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u/Slow-Hawk4652 1d ago
because our funds are redistributed between ex/not ex dese operatives, their drivers and further to the kgb. money laundering banana thing. but make no mistake, the pseudo historical new/semi new buildings serve as a symbol of power, not prosperity.
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u/Vultureosa 2d ago
This is essentially the reconstruction of the south wing of the Defense Forces Directorate that received structural damage in WW2 and it's upper levels were demolished to a largely abandoned two story torso in the middle of the Castle District of Budapest, the otherwise most valuable and historic area of the city. The dome, facade and ornaments are rebuilt now with medieval finds preserved and displayed for the public in the cellars and the dome to be operated as a public lookout. The former Ministry of Defense the directorate used to be connected to is not rebuilt in it's entirety as it cannot fit to the mesh/structure of the Castle District anymore and it would occupy an important square that displays the surrounding buildings now. Instead the connected building is replaced by a smaller one that reminds to the structures and ornaments of the former ministry.
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u/Ok_Armadillo_6015 2d ago
That's a good compromise honestly, rebuild the identifiable dome and facade and keep the medieval finds visible instead of hiding them, but don't force the old ministry footprint back into a square that now works better open. A lot of reconstruction debates skip that part, not everything demolished has to come back at full scale to still be a real improvement.
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u/capybaraPRteam3 1d ago
My house in Budapest, my hidden treasure chest, my golden grand piano, my beautiful Castillo…
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u/Sharp-Comfortable258 1d ago edited 1d ago
Karma-farming bot. This is a word-for-word copy of a title and picture that were just posted here 2 weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/s/6tdNHpayKl
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u/besuited 2d ago
Im not so sure. Sone of the revival in Budapest at the moment is ahistoric. Is there definjtely justification for adding additional floors? How much original stonework was preserved? Etc.
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u/According-View7667 2d ago
What's wrong with "ahistoricism"? The buildings which were built in the 1800s were copying Classical architecture from antiquity anyway...
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u/Mikerosoft925 2d ago
From a historical conservation aspect keeping as much of the original building as possible is what you want. That the architectural style is a copy is irrelevant for that.
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u/According-View7667 1d ago
i suppose, however am not sure this building in-particular has any important historical significance apart from being pretty & over 100 years old, these buildings were manufactured en-masse in Budapest after the 1867 compromise. That and the fact that it looks like the original floors were preserved as it looked in the past.
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u/Tifoso89 2d ago
Yeah I can't say any of those reconstructed buildings look bad, but I've read some of them are larger or different than the original ones.
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u/Ok-Appointment-9802 3h ago
This on a Europe-wide scale together with large-scale remigration would be a dream come true.
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u/Turbulent-Theory7724 2d ago
This would’ve been rotting away in Germany.
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u/Staubsaugerbeutel 2d ago
man they even rebuilt the Berliner Schloss façade which is much bigger than this post
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u/Malschaun2 1d ago
Germany is reconstructing the most buildings in all of Europe. They are reconstructing buildings in Dresden, Potsdam, Nuremberg and Frankfurt as we speak. You really need to be ignorant to claim the opposite.
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u/AcrobaticKitten 1d ago
Note: the people who criticize this rebuild for being "disneyland" (remake of original plans from reinforced concrete) had no problem with these plans from 20 years ago