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HAUSZMANN Alajos élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Alajos HAUSZMANN Kalmár Miklós - Kiss Zsuzsanna Emília
A L L contest for a building to house the Technical University on Kunewalder site along Múzeum Boulevard. Members of the jury included such prominent Viennese architects as Theophil Hansen and Friedrich Schmidt. Although Hauszmann won the competition with his designs, the commission finally went to Imre Steindl. The house erected on the corner of Veres Pálné and Szerb Streets in 1875-1876 was commissioned by the owner of the Monaszterly and Kuzmik ladies' boutique. A three-storey tenement house by Gedeon Halász was built nearby (Veres Pálné Street, No. 25, 1880). As one of its prioritized activities, the Council of Public Works organised after 1870 managed the designs and construction of the Sugárút (Avenue, today Andrássy Avenue). As one of the designer architects, Hauszmann was also employed in this project in his capacity as a widely recognized authority in architecture. However, because of his busy activities at the university he only got to make the designs of a few buildings. Built for the purposes of the Kégl family, the two-storey tenement house (1878-1879) on the corner of the Avenue (Sugárút) and Izabella Street was also designed by Hauszmann. Builtwith nine and ten axis of openings, this corner building ranks amongst the finest tenement houses Hauszmann ever designed with its plastered ashlarwork, pressed yellow brick cladding, Renaissance-style openings and cornices. The facade was partly remodelled when the building came to house the Lukács patisserie. Besides palatial tenement houses, Hauszmann often designed palaces for his clients both in towns and in the rural countryside. In 1874 the ducal Coburg family commissioned him to remodel their building in Franz Joseph Square (today: Széchenyi Square) and thus convert it into a palace. With this project Hauszmann was accepted by the aristocracy: he was commissioned to reconstruct the palace for the purposes of the same family in Szentantal and he designed the palm-house and racing stable on the estate of the Almássy family in Pásztó where he remodelled the old palace too. In 1876 Hauszmann designed a castle and a chapel for landowner György Kégl - a member of Parliament and a widely known public figure in Székesfehérvár - in Csalapuszta (Fejér county, Transdanubian region). Composed to include a columned drive-way, imposing corner projections and a corner turret, this building is an exemplary design of blending rural simplicity with refined ifastidiousness. Hauszmann fostered personal relationships with his client, which in 1885 earned him another commission: this time it was Count Géza Batthyány who employed him to design his palace in Polgárdi.
