Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

A SECTION OF THE PARK

As we walk on along the road, we see a clinker-walled building—the plant where the mineral water of Margaret Island is bottled. The building was raised in 1936 to plans by Emil Vidor to house the plant which had originally been established on the upper island, but which got in the way when the hotels were extended.

Somewhat to the north-west of the mineral-water plant, a club house was built in 1938, to plans by Jem Padányi Gulyás, for the employees of the National Land Bank. The recently renovated building now functions as a hotel.

Returning to the roadway, after about fifty yards we turn off on an asphalt-covered side path leading to the river bank. The first thing we see to the left is a weedy plot where an open-air cinema called Vörösmarty used to stand; raised in the 1960s, the structure now stands neglected. The building in a rather poor state of repair next to this plot was raised to plans by architects Deli

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