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

The Hotel Taverna

exciting and pleasantly welcoming, with its visual world of fine colours, sculptural ornamentation and homogeneous furniture.

The Hotel TAVERNA

No. 20 VÁCI UTCA, DISTRICT V The Hotel Taverna was built on a vacant plot between Váci utca, a pedestrian precinct, and Petőfi Sándor utca. Standing in a particularly busy spot of the Inner City, the hotel features an ingenious system of passageways with which designer József Finta joined Petőfi, Váci and Régiposta streets. The 224-room building utilizes every inch of potential the plot had to offer. The building is fully traversable, and is integrally connected to the streets and neighbouring buildings of the Inner City. The fagade overlooking Váci utca features Pegasus, Pál Kő’s sculptural decoration.

The Hotel CORVINUS KEMPINSKI

No. 7-8 Erzsébet tér, district V Built to plans by József Finta and Antal Puhl, this impressive, five-star hotel features nearly 370 air-conditioned rooms, 24 ‘regular’ and two presidential suites. Of its three storeys below street level two are occupied by a 250-car underground garage.

Debuting right in the middle of the city’s business and banking centre near the Danube, the company wanted a building to attract the local population, too. Opening on Deák Ferenc utca, a street running within the pedes57