Földes Mária: Ornamentation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

ing (e.g. fur hunting) are shown on the narrow, upright reliefs, and there are some animals to complement the composition on the large relief with the hunting scene. The bear heads on the cornice also suggest the same theme. The style of the reliefs, and the stylization of the ornaments are in perfect harmony with the overall puritanical appearance of the building. The courtyard facade shows the same approach-the huge, arching wall surfaces and the open galleries are covered with white tile, whose practical nature is a step towards the functional philosophy of modern architecture. The architect here is the same Albert Kőrössy, who conceived of the whimsically meandering flowers of the Philanthia.

It is worth walking on toward Szervita tér, where we shall find two splendid buildings in the immediate vicinity of the nondescript building of a sprawling multistorey car park. One of them is the most beautiful bank building in Budapest. The construction (no. 3 Szervita tér), whose name used to be Török Bankház (Turkish Bank), is a spectacular building in spite of its narrow facade, due to its unified, harmonious articulation and to its gorgeous gable mosaic. The design, by Henrik Böhm and Ármin Hegedűs, met every specification in the competitive invitation issued in 1905. The document stipulated that the five-storey bank and apartment house should dominate, without any pinnacles, balconies or other protuberances, the surrounding buildings. The designers used enormous glass surfaces

So-called Kutnevszky House, reliefs

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