Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

The third floor foyer outside the grand conference hall

tually broken with every tradition, and each shape, line, and stone is new and individual. (Magyar Szó)

This is how Vilmos Magyar sums up the virtues of Alpár’s award-winning entry, a design inspired by the style of the Exchange Palace:

The operation of central, issuing banks is quite different from that of other, regular, banks, where a multitude of customers conduct transactions usually involving small sums of money. Here, on the other hand, the majority of the work is made

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