Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

Vaulting stairs connecting the ground floor with the first floor

up of monetary transactions with other banks. What is important here is the efficient handling of cartloads of banknotes and coins, which haue to be quickly and safely taken over and distributed. To attend to this, an easily monitored courtyard is required, which is spacious enough for ten to twelve waggons at a time, blow that is what Alpár has delivered. He abandoned the architecturally tempting idea of having a central cashier’s hall, an idea favoured by others, thereby creating room for

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