Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Apartment Houses - High-Rises

123 flats supported by a monolith reinforced-concrete structure filled in with bricks, plasterboard slabs and prefab partitions. The building has two lifts. Floors 9 to 18 are serviced by their own water supply system. The average floor space of each flat is 41.36 square metres.

The tallest building of the former New Market - the Népszínház utca tower block

No. 28 Népszínház utca, District VIII

Creating a transition to the much lower architecture of Népszínház utca and thus integrating the high-rise into the surrounding urban texture is a six-storey side-wing annexed to the main building designed by Zoltán Boross.

Sprawling across the ground floor is now a large exhibition hall bloated up with display-windows projecting into the street. Above this are fourteen storeys of flats topped with a flat roof creating a rather chaotic visual impression. Rising from this is a 24-metre tall grid-iron structure serving, as a response to the chal■ The high-rióe in Népszínház utca

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