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A Kémiai épület - The Chemistry Building Kalmár Miklós

of the Danube side a sweeping flight of service stairs was built. Both the main stairway and the service one went up only as far as the first storey. The elevator of the building was built next to the service stairs on the side facing the Danube.

The facade overlooking Gellert Square is an imposing one with a Neo-Renaissance entrance, a balcony above the main entrance, ornate iron standard bearers and the proud sign: "Royal Joseph University of Technology". To enhance the impression of the building when viewed from the square, Czigler designed a timber frame superstructure imitating a cupola, which he integrated in many other buildings he had designed before. From the direction of the garden, the building appears softer and more open on the southern side. Here the facade looks lighter owing to the porches flanking it on both sides: the outdoor stairs in front of the main stairwells and the ornate gates, the terraces above the gates, as well as the chimneys of the boiler-rooms reaching out above the facade all contribute to achieve this effect. Beneath the windows of the central projection of

KERESZTMETSZET A FŐTENGELYBEN I CROSS SECTION IN THE MAIN AXIS

the articulated facade there are plaster reliefs portraying five famous chemists (Antoine- Laurent de Lavoisier, Michael Faraday, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, August Wilhelm von Hofmann and Georg Lunge). Their names are inscribed in Hungarian orthography required then: the family names come first, followed by the Hungarian Christian names.

Identical in design, the side facades are rather functional with the monotonous layout of aperture axes. Czigler only counteracted their dullness with details of the first storey windows on the second axis. Neo-Renaissance here transforms into Neo-Baroque style just as unnoticed as on late-Renaissance and early Baroque buildings in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Czigler highlighted the significance of the corner projections of the side facades held in plane by the frames of the first-storey windows with aedicule and tympanum-frugnum in the central axis. The exposed brickwork and carved stone details intensifying architectural effects do appear on other buildings by Czigler, but here they