Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Apartment Houses - High-Rises

lenges of the previous decade, as an aerial mast carrying innumerable satellite dishes and a cup-shaped antenna.

The dilapidated giant has recently received some media flak aimed primarily at the problems involved with the construction of Budapest's 4th underground railway line, as the section connecting Kálvin tér to the Eastern Railway Station will run right under the building. According to its worried tenants, the high-rise is supported by stakes driven 17 metres deep into the ground, while experts know it to rest on a reinforced concrete platform sunk into a merely five-metre deep pit. Fortunately, the latter know best.

Its top flush with the plateau of Castle Hill — the Alagút utca high-rise

No. 3 Alagút utca, District I

Today's Krisztina körút and its environs - once a haven of coffee houses and nightclubs — sustained serious damage during the siege of Buda at the end of

■ Hi gh-rióe in Alagút utca

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