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Professional Profile

Architect with wide experience in the masterplanning, architecture and interior design of large scale developments and public buildings: cinemas, theatres, universities and cultural projects mainly in Hungary and the UK. Leader of a team of sometimes 30 people. Practice from architectural scale to the smallest details of the interior design including furnitures. Cooperation with international teams and specialists.
Succesful, completed, published and awarded projects and commissions. 
Design philosophy: profound analysis of the site context, the function and the architectural language to set up the basic principles that later organise even the smallest details in a poetic way. Innovative use of new materials, light and colour. Search of the archetype.

Between projects she creates textile artworks.


Main Projects 
  
Scott Brownrigg Ltd. London, UK 2006-2009 

Clubhouse in St George Gardens Paphos, Cyprus 
Plot: 161.333/4000 m2 Development: 1200 m2
Type: planning application 
Description: clubhouse with mini-market, gym, cafe-bistro, terrace-bar.
Project: 2008-2009
Client: Aristo Development Cyprus
  
Office Building in Bucharest, Romania
Plot: 44266/10000 m2 Development total: 8000 m2
Type: planning application
Description: high quality office building as part of the Landmark Development in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Gateway to its interior piazza with a ground floor arcade - luxury retail galleria with bar - and high quality office spaces above on 7 levels.
Projects: 2008
Client: Project Bucuresti s.a

  
Luxury Landmark Residential Development,  Bucharest, Romania
Plot: 44266 m2 Development total: 26500 m2  
Type: master-planning, architecture
Description:
 high quality luxury residential development in the heart of the capital of Romania. Underground parking, tranquil gardens, courtyards and water features. High quality shops, restaurants, bars and a spa, existing listed buildings in the neighbourhood. Contemporary architecture, high quality materials, landscaping. Six penthouses with a minimum of 200 sqm apartments.
Project
: 2007-2008
Client: Project Bucuresti s.a. 


Alaminos Estate  Beach Club Village, Larnaca, Cyprus
Plot: 380.940 m2 Development total: 243.680 m2
Type: master-planning,  concept design with  planning application plans    
Description: integrated seaside residential and resort village with country club, marina retail village and three characteristic residential villages. Organised on a  small hillside, between a riverbed and an archaic treeline with a wide promenade to the existing fishing marina.  Later completed with a marina development and a hotel.
Project:
  2007
Client:
 Muskita Hotels Ltd.

Coral Bay Resort Village, Paphos, Cyprus
Plot: 30.237 m2 Development total: 9677 m2
Type: master-planning, planning application plans   
Description: luxury apartments and villas on the seaside,  operated on a time share basis, to create a new category of an Apartment Hotel. Organised on a rocky site with sunken watercasdade swimmingpools, sculpture gardens and treating rooms around a clubhouse and a promenade leading to the sea.
Project: 2007
Client: Alpha Panareti Ltd.


Port and Marina Redevelopment, Larnaca, Cyprus
Plot: 300.000 m2 Development total: 273.700 m2
Type: master-planning and concept design 
Description: existing commercial marina and connecting waterfront development with waterfront luxury residential housing, yacht berths, cruise terminal, commercial areas, hotel, culture and heritage buildings: theater, city hall, museum, casino, conference hall.
Project: 2007
Client:
  Zenon Consortium with Bouygues Batiment International 

EADL Associates London UK 2006 

  Amsterdam Art’Otel  
5.160 m2
Type: interior architecture, sample rooms. 
Description:
  refurbishment of three old delapidated buildings with 180 rooms. Some wild and original design to give fame to the buildings. Glass-wall bathrooms, built-in bed-wardrobes, plasma TV and desk because of lack of space. 
Project:
 2006
Client:
 Vondel Park Plaza Hotel

SPA Hotel, Visegrad, Hungary
4.684 m2 
Type: interior architecture /general layout. 
Description: new hotel at the Danube in a stone mine in the hillside. 224 guestrooms. wellness, public spaces.
Project: 2006
Client:
  Tourist Project 2004, Budapest 

Appartment hotel in Tihdar, Israel
36.000 m2 
Type: interior architecture /general layout of public spaces, samplerooms.  
Description: new building at the seaside. 312 appartments, wellness. 
Project: 2006
Client:  Tihdar 


 Fraktál Art Budapest Hungary 1989-2005 

Central European University Business School, Budapest
4.500 m2  
Type: architecture and interior design. Competition, award.
Description: extension of a historic building.  Tower with folding construction for auditoriums and lecture halls. Rising rows, flexible walls, point-suspended glass structure.
Project: 2005

Client: Central European University

Reconstruction of the Cinema Kossuth, Budapest
1.500 m2   
Type: interior architecture  
Description: reconstruction of previous successful design that became the archetype of the cinema in the city centre of Budapest. Completion of the existing original black glass wall coverings and fluorescent neon lightings with the addition of a deconstructivist buffet, a bookshop and a coffee- grill bar in bright colour artificial materials for their brilliance and trendy outlook.
Project: 2005
Completed: 2006 
Client: Intercom Rt., Budapest-Los Angeles, Andy Vajna


Palace of Arts,  Budapest
40.000 m2 
Type: interior architecture     
Description: theater for 600 persons, concert hall for 2000 persons, exhibition hall for contemporary arts. Independence of the different interior elements: coverings like independent barks, lighting as flat surfaces, ceilings like floating sheets in the air. This disintegration of the different elements of the customary interior design caused an unusual feeling of uncertainty. 
In collaboration with: ZDTE Architects; ARTEC acoustics, USA; CCC. Bogner, Vienna
Project: 2002 -2004
Completed: 2003-2005
Client: Duna sétány Kft., Arcadom Rt. in PPP  with the Hungarian State
Awards: 
- FIABCI Prix d'Excellence 2006 Best Cultural Building in the World
- Pro Architecture Hungary 

- Recommendation for the Best Designer of the Year prize

Central  European University, Budapest
12.000 m 
Type: interior architecture  
Description: extension of a listed historic building in the old historic district of Budapest. Program and functional scheme of a new university in the course of continuous consultations with the clients. Conference room, library, lecture - and classrooms, lobby and student facilities. Total furniture procurement.  
In collaboration with: Planart Ltd. Iványi László
Project: 1995
Completed: 1996
Client: CEU, Mr. George Soros
Recommendationfor Ybl prize 
Recommendation for the Best Designer of the Year Prize  


Constitutional Court, Budapest
8.000 m2   
Type: architecture and interior design 
Description: representative headquarter for this newly established government-independent institute with the transformation of an office building of the sixties on the hillside of the historic Buda castle. Full-council room, announcement hall, offices. Granite, walnut wood, special revolving doors. 
Project: 1993-1994
Completed: 1994-1995  
Client: Constitutional Court of the Hungarian State 


Flat for an American Architect, Budapest
150 m2   
Type: architecture and interior design 
Description: a summer-time residence for an American architect with the transformation of a small flat on the hillside of Buda with all the luxury he needs while staying in Budapest.
Project: 1993-1994
Completed: 1994-1995 

IPARTERV - FFKKV Budapest Hungary 1972-89  
Theatre Csiky Gergely  Kaposvár, Hungary
7.000 m2
Type: interior architecture
Description: reconstruction of an old historic secession style building totally dilapidated.  The task was to enhance the original conditions and characteristics of the building and recreate its fame, elegance and brilliance. 

Creating 3 large scale textile wall coverings into the artists' restaurant.
Project: 1985     
Completed: 1986 
Client: The Hungarian State
Recommendation for Ybl prize 


Cinema Kossuth, Budapest
1.500 m2   
Type: interior architecture
Description: movie theatre in a Bauhaus building. A magic place, an archetype of the cinema with the use of black glass wall coverings and fluorescent lights on the dark red ceiling in the transition places.
Project: 1981
Completed: 1982
Client: Budapest Film Ltd. 
Recommendation for Ybl prize 


Qualifications, studies

Masters Degree in Arcitecture 1978     
Master School of Architecture, Budapest 1976-1978
Diploma in Architecture, Budapest 1972  
Technological University of Budapest, Faculty of Architecture 1967-1972


Main competitions,awards 

FIABCI 2006: the Palace of Arts is the Best Cultural Building in the World in 2006
First prize in an Italian Design competition with the design of a Sofa 1996
Nominations for the Best designer of the year in 2005,1996
Recommendations for the Ybl prize 1992, 1986, 1984 
Third prize in a competition of a University College  in Pécs, Hungary 1975       
First prize as the Best Student of Architecture 1972 


Professional activities 
  Member at the Central Architectural Jury of the Town Hall of Budapest 1982-2005
Master and Tutor of Interior Architecture and Design at the University of  Applied  Arts in Budapest 1996-2000


Main exhibitions 

Textile works - Gallery of Architecture N+n,  2002
New Tendencies in Architecture - Gallery Vigadó, Budapest  1996
Exposition „Seven Architects” at the Faculty of Architecture 1991
New Trends in  Architecture,  Gallery Budapest  1986

Young architects - Castle Zichy Budapest 1980 

Memberships

Member of the Association of Hungarian Architects
Member of the Association of Hungarian Artists
Registered architect at the Royal Institute of British Architects 


Main publications   

Articles for the Internet Forum of Architecture in Hungary
The House, the Garden, the Road and the Stairs -TV program, DVD, lecture 2002 
Rational Architecture - the Semiotics of Architecture - publication 1978
The Towns of the Future - lecture 1975



 
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