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

Office Blocks and Public Buildings

Built by the contractor Kipszer between 1979 and 1982, the hotel has a combined floor-space of 8,700 square metres and an internal volume of 32,356 cubic metres.

Between the reception desk and the lobby downstairs is a 70-seat snack bar, a travel agency and a souvenir shop. The building is now ripe for reconstruction.

Hungarian-Bulgarian friendship — the Intranszmas Office Block

No. 17 Márvány utca, District I

Built to symbolise the "New Economic Mechanism” in 1968—69, the u-storey office block between the busy Buda thoroughfare of Alkotás utca and the Southern Railway Station is the head office of Intranszmas, a joint Hungarian-Bulgarian company specialising in transportation. With Elemér Nagy and Géza Makkai designing it and Gábor Walthier (Közti) acting as structural analyst, the building was constructed by Governmental Building Co. (ÁÉV) No. 26 (Dunaújváros).

■ The Intranszmai headquarten

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