Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

The sports complex of BKV Forward (Beszkárt) HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE 1929 2,400 (plus a gymnasium, a restaurant and offices underneath) was indeed impressive in its proportions. The company, which had considerable means at its dis­posal, could even afford to build and maintain further sports facilities all over the city beyond this high quality central complex. The prestige of the stadium remained untarnished after the war; it was here, for example, that the athletics events of another College World Championship were held in 1949. nationalisation, how­ever, dealt a hard blow to the club; any serious devel­opment was out of the question, and even the preser­vation of the building put a severe strain on the bud­get. The centre is a real gem for those with an anti­quarian interest, as the building has preserved the characteristic shape and atmosphere of stadia built in a bygone era. Budapest Railwaymen’s Sports Club (BVSC) (No. 2 Szőnyi út, district XIV) The BVSC sports complex lies squeezed between the Rákos shunting yard and the M3 motorway. The asso­ciation received a plot of land on the premises of an “unused, neglected, weedy sand quarry” from the rail­40

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