Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

way company as early as 1926. The first football pitch was still surrounded by sand dunes, but in a few years’ time a field and a club house were built. Major development commenced after World War II, and with many of the previously constructed buildings having survived, the resulting complex is likely to have become the most eclectic sports facility in Budapest. In this jumble of styles various abandoned and operational sports units, industrial and railway instalments, narrow streets and diminutive car parks follow one another. The new football pitches and an unclosed concrete set of terraces with a capacity of 18,000 was built in the middle of the complex in 1952. On the western side of this construction stands an unwieldy covered grandstand made a few years ago of iron bars painted blue and yellow. The Szőnyi út front is dominated by the huge white mass of a warehouse-like new club building erected in 1983 and a sports swimming pool, opened in 1992 and remaining to this day one of the newest of its kind in Budapest. The edifice includes the 50 by 25 metre open pool built in 1954 together with a harmoniously arranged complex of ancillary spaces. The pleasant overall effect of the modem outer front is somewhat disturbed by the iron bars and stiffening cables supporting the roof, and the postmodern-ornamental windows are also out of sync with the otherwise purely modernist- looking mass of the building. On the premises there is also a training room, a table-tennis hall as well as football, handball and volleyball pitches and tennis courts.

The sports facilities of BVSC in Zugló

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