Foreign Winners: Master Plan in Public Space Design Contest Revealed by Budapest Mayor
- 1 Apr 2026 6:50 AM
The project to renew the Rákosrendező area in Budapest represents the future of the city and is "a highly rational urban development initiative", Gergely Karácsony, the capital's mayor, said at a ceremony announcing the winning master plan in the urban and public space design competition.
In his address as jury president, Karacsony insisted that recent years had forced short-term thinking amid "brutal conditions, where survival often took precedence". But change after the parliamentary election could preserve Budapest's "livability, prestige, and significance in Europe and Hungary", he said.
David Vitezy, chairman of the city's climate protection, transport, and urban development committee and co-president of the jury, added that the Rakosrendezo brownfield project, "conceived with a fully European perspective", could only succeed if the next government honoured its commitments to the area's transport infrastructure.
The winning consortium was led by France's Coldefy et Associes Architectes Urbanistes, with partners Cityforster and Treibhaus Landschaftsarchitektur, both from Germany, Marko and the Placemakers from Slovakia, and Sporaarchitects Kft of Hungary.
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