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CZIGLER Győző élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Győző CZIGLER Kalmár Miklós

a throughfare across the site which may have inspired the architect to design a passage house here with yards, street-like court elevations and closed staircases by abandoning outside galleries. This was the first project when Czigler tried to realise the idea of integrating a private inner street. On the side facing Károly Boulevard the ground-floor housed retails, there were stores on the mezzanine floor, an ornate and spacious furniture store on the first floor, whilst the rest was to contain tenement flats. The woodenstructure cupola imitation above the entrance is a prototype of the design he used for the Ch Building of the Technical University. Unfortunately, this tenement palace was demolished, without leaving any remains to be seen now.

Czigler came up with an even more successful architectural solution in the designs of his second passage building named Gozsdu Court. The urban structure design of this development with six inner courtyards harmonizes the principles of rendering spatial walls typical of Historicism and the ambition to open up the inside of the block. The client commissioning this building was Manó Gozsdu, a rich cattle-dealer of Romanian origins, who later on became a politician. In order to intensify the spectacle of his designs, Czigler preferred to have a cupola on corner buldings, which was a novelty typical of this era. He had a special talent for cupola designs evoking Baroque style, which is also illustrated by his building at No. 1 Erzsébet Boulevard.

The palace built for the National (Gentry) Casino, which later was used as the headquarters of the political party, then the House of Soviet Culture (today: the centre of the World Federation of Hungarians), is one of the most prestigious public buildings designed by Czigler. With a seating capacity of appr. 2000 people, this casino is both monumental

and well-proportioned. Its interiors met all the requirements of representation back in those days. Representing the same standards as his tenement houses and urban palaces, market halls designed by Czigler housed functional novelties at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the architect of two market halls out of the six built in Budapest at that time: the one in Hunyadi Square and the other in Hold Street.

Gracing the wall pillars, the stone carvings represent heads of oxen, swine and cattle referring to the function of the market hall that houses a total of 350 stalls in Hunyadi Square. The three-nave building is 43 meter wide, and has a nave with a span of 18 metre emphasised much in the same way as in the basilican system.

The second market hall Czigler designed was also built in Lipótváros to replace the so-called New Building (Neugebaude) in Hold Streetwhich had run parallel with the eastern side of the street occupying a site previously used as a market place. The Municipal Council of Public Works suggested the site of the former market for the market hall project. Just like in his previous designs for Hunyadi Square, Czigler designed an exposed brick facade and a hall with a basilican system to let in natural light.

ORSZÁGOS „DZSENTRI" KASZINÓ, BUDAPEST, V. KÉR., SEMMELWEIS UTCA 1-3., 1894-1896

NATIONAL “GENTRY" CASINO, BUDAPEST,

DISTRICT V, SEMMELWEIS STREET, NOS. 1 -3, 1 894-1 896