Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Hunyadi tér

2.38 square kilometers. Its population of 40,000, however, has less than a square meter of green space per resident — so the square's role as a source of green space is of utmost importance. The square is enclosed by residential blocks with ground-floor businesses, most of them three- or four-storey and built from the late 19th to early 20th century, including the four-storey eclectic corner house built at Szófia utca 14 by Sándor and Gyula Wellisch in 1888.

Anchoring the square is the market hall, built in eclectic style between 1894—96 to plans by Győző Czigler. The market hall was declared a protected monument in May 2009. The hall's 3 gates make for easy circulation and moving of goods in and out. Its footprint is more than 2000 square meters, providing spaces for 230 permanent vendors, plus space for temporary ones. Included in the structure, as was the custom at the time, were apartments that could be rented to increase the market hall’s income. The three-naved market hall is 43 meters wide and its main nave’s span is 18 meters. It has a basilica plan with massive cellars, and its window sills and other elements are made of hard limestone. Satyr heads decorate the tops of the half moonshaped windows and the columns are topped by ox and cattle heads carved from stone. The building received damage during the Second World War's

■ Spring comeó. and with it the blooming bicycled!

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