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HAUSZMANN Alajos élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Alajos HAUSZMANN Kalmár Miklós - Kiss Zsuzsanna Emília

In a district of this town called Herény, he designed the Gotthard Palace and the observatory (1878-1880) integrating them by using the existing building parts. Hauszmann was the architect of the building to house the Stefánia Yacht Club (1878) in Balatonfüred, and both the town hall and the theatre in Kőszeg.

He built Széli Palace (1890) on the site of a former mansion in Rátét. The client, Kálmán Széli was the Prime Minister of Hungary at the time of the construction. His relations with famous and well-to-do people earned Hauszmann numerous new commissions: thus in 1877 he built the castle for Count Pál Pejacsevich in Podgorác (today: Podgorica, Slavonia), designed a palace for Sándor Véssei in Szőcsény and a mausoleum commissioned by Endre Csekonits in Zsombolya (today: Jimbolia, Romania).

Hauszmann reconstructed Somossy's Orpheum in Nagymező Street and later on the German theatre in Báthory Street. At Nos. 64—66 Úri Street he built an abbey for the Scottish Catholic nuns in 1884. The old post-palace of Buda (No. 6 Fő/Main Street) with its exterior design evoking German and Italian Renaissance is already a mature work by the architect. Its corner cupola with a lantern was destroyed during the war. One of the most significant fin-desiécle event of architecture in Hungary was the competition inviting designs of the Houses of Parliament advertised in 1882. Prominent architects submitted their works for this tender, Otto Wagnerfrom Vienna being one of the many. Finally, Imre Steindl was commissioned with the project although during the first round of votes the jury gave him and Hauszmann 19-19yeses. Of the two types of designs, an elongated structure along the River Danube versus the block-type organisation, Hauszmann chose the latter: his building with a central cupola precedes the spatial configurations so typical of his later designs.

The building to house the Law Court and Prison of Budapest is a generous design with complex functions: it occupies a whole block whilst being simple and aesthetic in appearance. The central projection with columns and arcades and the corner projections withdrawn in an arch appropriately articulate the building featuring a well-proportioned subdivision also vertically.