Juhász Gyula - Szántó András: Hotels - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Trieste General Insurance Company and the Lloyd Palace. Both buildings were demolished because of damage sustained in the war.

Designer Lajos Zalaváry found the right solution to his challenging task: he joined the hotel building, which stands opposite the Hungarian Academy of Science in one of the most beautiful squares of Budapest, to the row of hotels on the Danube bank, closing off the square at the same time. The hotel is integrally connected to the neighbouring building, a typical Pest apartment house.

The building was so designed as to wrap around a covered inner courtyard or atrium. There is nothing particularly original about this method of shaping inner spaces in Hungary, as there are many tenement blocks in Pest which have interior balconies built around a central courtyard. An atrium, even built on such a scale as the one in this hotel, provides an intimate location for people to meet and enjoy themselves. The large space the visitor encounters here when entering is both highly

The interior space of the Hyatt Regency

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