Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Mátyás tér

household, making a living as musicians to take care of multiple siblings and prematurely aging parents. Said one-. "Babári is a good musician, but he still can't get into a band, because he's already too old. He's 32, with five kids, and the sixth one on the way."

Mátyás tér was in a heavily dilapidated condition when the rehabilitation project began. It had been so for quite awhile. One of the 1930s newspaper accounts called it "Bald as a sparrow, loud as a birdshop... in the fall sunlight wrinkled-faced patriarchs suck on their pipes while young musicians squeak at their instruments, which in many cases were larger than the one learning to make music on them.''

In 2005, Rév8 began the process and the following year brought in the Landscape Planning and Development Department of Budapest Corvinus University to lead and design the planning process. Landscape architecture

■ Matyói tér, with the white fapade oh the Glove Factory in the background

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