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

Office Blocks and Public Buildings

Ákos Horváth, Ilona Zárai), but then it was decided that the building function as a hotel. By then the company Hungarhotels had also joined the project and work continued on the basis of new plans by the company Közti.

Installed at the top of the 12-storey building were the lift’s engine room and a large reservoir. The hotel rooms can be found between floors one and ten (with a total of 35 beds in 16 rooms on each floor — one five-person apartment, two three-bed rooms and twelve double rooms — amounting to 350 beds in 160 rooms altogether).

In the central core of the building within the cylindrical concrete shaft are two lifts with a capacity of ten persons each, and a service lift; the staircase is smoke- free even in the event of a fire. It is from the circular gallery around the central core that the 10 metre by 10 room-units open.

Sitting on a foundation of stakes, the geometric-looking building has curtain- walls assembled on site, while its central core was made with sliding-shutter technology.

■ The Hotel £XPO

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