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

Office Blocks and Public Buildings

■ The Hotel Budapest

concrete by 13 October 1967. Fifty-five people worked on the building's structural frame. They built in 1920 cubic metres of concrete and 160 tons of steel.

The 64-metre tall hotel measures 33 metres across its circular basis and contains 280 double rooms, each with a bathroom of its own. Ten large apartments are at the disposal of the more discriminating clientele. The busy hotel has been expanded and reconstructed several times — in 1984 a sauna and a solarium were added, while in 1975 and in 1985 the whole building was modernised.

Its top-floor barroom offers a splendid view of the city. Thanks to suicides exploiting the height of the building for their self-destructive purposes, the hotel sometimes makes it to the cover pages of tabloid magazines, too.

Accommodation in the market city - the Hotel EXPO

No. 10 Albertirsai út, District X

In 1973—74, a new office block was decreed to be built on the site of what was then the Budapest International Fair. In 1974, the reinforced concrete core and steel frame of the building were made to plans by Public Building Designers (architects-.

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