Szablyár Péter: Step by step - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)
A multi-step block of flats in the Tabán
Bridge in 1964. The complex is a site very popular with tourists visiting Gellért Hill as an item on the World Heritage List. Standing on the terrace in front of the statue one sees the traffic on Elizabeth Bridge ceaselessly roll down toward the hill pouring through the two huge steel gateways, and in the background of all this lies the throbbing heart of the great city itself. And indeed, one can feel one of the major arteries beating right here. A multi-step block of flats in the Tabán Heading towards North Buda along the busy Attila út and passing the Gibraltar Strait of Bethlen Court, that lumbering tenement block built between Árok utca and Attila út in the early 1920s, we are greeted by the horizon opening up and revealing the Buda Palace complex housing the National Széchényi Library. As we leave this sombre mass behind, the first thing catching the eye is a staggered building of six divisions closing off the green, leafy slopes of the old Tabán. What makes the edifice a sight for sore eyes is that it blends into the surroundings perfectly well, providing ■ The home o{ multiple stairways, a listed monument 24
