Weblog of Ferdinandx2 Architects

We have found a brand new site "in the all" called Contemporary Homes. This is a hungarian page but everything there has been written only english. Our Pannon Falap-Lemez project has been also featured in the beta-version of this e-magazine:About:Contemporary Homes - Interior Design and…

Our project called UNIQA Vital Business Centre Budapest has been featured on Arthitectural.com last week. Surprisingly it has got more than 100 likes, we have to say "Thanks" for them. You can find more projects of us there as follows:Residential Building in Tulipan st.Residential Building…

We have found some information about our first project on the site of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Commissioner of Hungary. Our Name is also listed there. Unfortunatelly it's only in hungarian, but the site itself has also an english version. It was published on epiteszforum.hu.…

Our proposal for Stratford Kiosks Competition London has been featured on epiteszforum. We have posted about it last year: goal of the competition and our solution see there. You can find the whole text in english and a lot of drawings, we don't repeat it here. Good search!…

We (our UNIQA project) have been featured in the brand new Calendar 2011 of WICONA with the titel "Technology for Ideas". We couldn't find the e-version of it, maybee it is only on paper (ancientnet). But of course we are very glad to be the "playmate" of July. Other architects…

 (magyarul is...) Tervlap.hu has started a new service: it will be not only an architectural online paper, but it become more and more an online community of architects in Hungary. Unfortunatelly it is only hungarian at the moment, but we are trying to appell the owners to make it bi-lingual:…

Since 2002 we have made several plans for the renovation, reconstruction of the Jurisich Castle in Kőszeg, Hungary. Step by step we have reached our goal: the building prozess can begin probably in Februar 2011, because the official competition for choosing the main contractor has been launched…

Greetings to Spain. We have found a quite good site called ARQLANTIA administered by spanish architects. We've decided to become a member there and uploaded the first project of us: AMSY Head Office. They are trying to rescue the disappearing architecture. We find this is a beautifull idea.About:…

(magyarul is...)The Hungarian Danube Research Station Department of the Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will move from Göd and Vácrátót to Budapest, Újpest. The new head office will be placed into an old protected Art Nouveau building. Ferdinand and…

(magyarul is...) Our Residential project: Szemlőhegy st has been featured on Arthitectural on 17th of November and you can find it on the main page for a short time. Our other projects there: Pannon Falap-Lemez Head Office, Hotel**** Balneum Tiszafüred, AMSY Head Office, Residential Building in…

(magyarul is...) The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has been organized last week at Barcelona. Our project UNIQA Vital Business Center has been feautured there and from now on it can be found on the page of the World Buildings Directory. It wasn't shortlisted but we are glad and proud to have…

(magyarul is...) Our Residential building project with 3 flats in Buda is ready since October. Architect: Csaba Ferdinand. Building period: from September 2009 till October 2010. Built in gross area: 450 m2. Site: 907 m2. Building costs netto: 320 000 euros. Building materials: Resopal panels,…

UNIQA's media elevation as ArtFacade(copyright by Ferdinand) presents: BorderLine Architecture's to this place adapted movie from the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale at Venice. So everybody can see this part of the hungarian pavillion's installation by Andor…

(magyarul is...) Hiermit begrüssen wir die Seite von Alexandra Goebel und Michael Busch. Architektourist.de is our favorite weblog from Germany. The "engine" of it is Alexandra Goebel, who is editing and writing about architecture on a high level, so the page has at the moment rank 2 from…

(magyarul is...) Architecture News Plus shows  our project Szemlőhegy Street Residential Building. This is our sixth building on that site. Till today there have been featured 1058 projects and 349 offices.Editor's Pick…

(magyarul is...) We have got a mail from Archello.com with request for press information about Hotel**** Balneum Tiszafüred. After sending the materials it was published yesterday on this site. Archello is open source but it has a reviewing panel that controls the standard of projects published on…

(magyarul is...) We need help and information! In the last three month we have received e-mails from three/four? different chinese publishing houses wanted to publish one ore more of our built projects. We don't know any companies there, we aren't able to find out which one is serious or not. Could…

(magyarul is...)We launch a new series here called Brothers in Architecture. We will posting about projects and built houses which seem to be brothers, cousines, half-bloods or relatives, because we are looking for the "same sequencies" of the "architectural genom". We don't have…

(only in english...) We have participated at a competition called Stratford Kiosk. The deadline was: 3 September 2010. The Architecture Foundation has been pleased to announce the launch of an open international competition to design a permanent yet flexible, free standing group of kiosks in…

(magyarul is...) The construction of this something made of stainless steel has been already erected but it isn't ready yet. Quit a "big" project! What could it be? The layout seems to be rhombus-like. Is it a pavilion for security gard? Or a little kiosk to sell newspaper? Could it be a…

(magyarul is...) 3 never built projects of Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects have been uploaded on the site of Potential Architecture: EUROPAN 4 GRAZ 1ST PRIZE WINNER(1996 with Kati Csillag and Zsolt Gunther), EUROPAN 4 BASEL(1996) and EUROPAN 6 MANCHESTER UK(2001).We couldn't yet find out how to…

(Only english) Our Article (written on 28 of June 2010) about city planner from Germany has been featured(only hungarian) under the(translated) title "Beauty and Urban planning" on Tervlap.hu. Some additional information about the group: The member of it are ex-students(and their kids) of…

We have designed a small project in May. This little thing will be erected in a garden. What could it be? This is our smallest building ever, roughly 10 m2. According to the time schedule it should be ready till next week. Is it a bus stop shelter? Or a garage?Or a storage for bicycle? Maybee an…

(magyarul is....)Unfortunatelly the elevation of the UNIQA Business Vital Center was not big enough to be a part of the Media Facades Festival 2010 Europe. We hope that next year it won't stay outside of the borderline. That's way we have decided to organise - with help of UNIQA of course -  a…

Next week comes it out:  a new article about the UNIQA Vital Business Center in METSZET. This is a hungarian architectural printed magazine, whom online version is called tervlap.hu (alexa.com: 3 498 153) We can present here the paper work version of it. Unfortunatelly this magazine has no…