At this year’s vote, readers had the opportunity to select the Building of the Year in fourteen categories from among the over three thousand projects featured on ArchDaily in 2014.

According to the website, both accomplished architects such as the Portuguese Álvaro Siza Vieria, the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron or Japanese Ban Sigeru and rising stars such as Copenhagen-based architects EFFEKT are among the recipients of this year’s prizes. Winning buildings were granted the awards for their startling appearance or unique solutions to social, environmental or economic challenges, the website writes.

The design of the Fővám tér and Gellért stations on Budapest’s M4 metro line is the work of a young group of Budapest architects. The two stations have already won architizer.com‘s award after both the jury and the audience found the new Budapest subway stations the best in the bus and railway station category.

The metro stations are not the first Hungarian-designed buildings to win the prestigious award – Laposa Vinery in Badacsonytomaj and Füleky Vinery in Bodrogkeresztúr won the award for the best industrial building in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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