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

The Hajós-Villányi stadium-design

on the same spot that the People’s Stadium now actually stands. Cinder the Hungarian Republic of Soviets, Hajós relocated his planned-for complex to a new environment, the widest, middle section of Margaret Island, overlooking Buda. The architect designed three fagades, each in a different style-pseudo-Greek, Neo-Roman and “national”, i.e. Hungarian Art-Nouveau, respectively.

In the mid-twenties architect-cum-applied-arts- designer Géza Maróti also stepped forward with his ingenious and artistic plans. According to his plans of 1925, Maróti intended to combine his version of a national stadium with a permanent exhibition area in Lágymányos. A year later, he made new plans, this time for a site on Vérmező, in elegant Neo-Classical style. In the mid-thirties Maróti made further grandiose designs to be realised on Óbuda Island and then another, once again for Lágymányos.

Géza Maróti’s stadium designed for the Vérmező

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