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

Office Blocks and Public Buildings

■ The apartment block with the reservoir on its top in Nyírpalota utca

OFFICE BLOCKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS

The only palace on the "Kalef" - the Postal Palace

Nos. 6—8 Krisztina körút, District XII

After the trauma of the Trianon Peace Treaty, the municipality of Budapest announced a tender competition for a complex to house Telephone Exchange 111, together with the headquarters of the capital city and district post offices, the building popularly known as the Postal Palace.

Of the 147 designs submitted, the jury selected plans made by architect Gyula Sándy who was then commissioned to prepare the working designs and oversee the construction itself. A two-tier basement was sunk into the sloping site, during which time the constructors cut horizontally into an underground stream flowing in the Buda layers of marl; the water was then conducted into a mains channel. With the completion, in 1925-26, of the two sections, a covered space of 70,000

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