2020/09/24
Successes
House of Hungarian Music Wins “Best International Public Service Architecture” Award
2019/12/03
Successes
After winning the title of Best Public Service Architecture Europe, the House of Hungarian Music, a development within the Liget Budapest Project, has won the Best International Public Service Architecture
award at one of the world’s most prestigious international property competitions: the International Property Awards.
After winning the title of Best Public Service Architecture Europe, the House of Hungarian Music, a development within the Liget Budapest Project, has won the Best International Public Service Architecture award at one of the world’s most prestigious international property competitions: the International Property Awards. Benedek Gyorgyevics, the CEO of Városliget Zrt. (the company responsible for the implementation of the Liget Budapest Project), received the recognition at the gala award ceremony in London that stretched into the late hours this Monday. The House of Hungarian Music – to be built on the site of the now demolished Hungexpo office buildings – won the Best International Public Service Architecture award after being selected as the best among the world’s ten regional winners. Following the recognition won this year by the Museum of Ethnography, the Liget Budapest Project can now boast of two of its buildings being ranked among the best in the world.
The Best International Public Service Architecture award was won this year by the House of Hungarian Music at one of the property industry’s most prominent and widely acknowledged events, the International Property Awards, which has now been running for 26 years. The award winners, selected by an international jury of 80 international experts, received the recognition at the gala ceremony held in London. In the case of each project the jury evaluated project planning, quality, innovation, originality and commitment to sustainability. The judging process had several stages and the House of Hungarian Music first won in the Best Public Service Architecture Europe category as one of the winning national projects and then, as the continent’s best, was awarded the title of Best International Public Service Building. Hence, another development to be implemented as part of the Liget Budapest Project has been deemed unique internationally and selected as being among the best in the world.
Stuart Shield, President of International Property Awards, pointed out that “the Liget Budapest Project is a great opportunity for the Hungarian capital since it is rare to see such large-scale cultural urban developments in the world these days. The project will enrich Budapest’s cultural palette and could significantly boost the number of tourists coming to Hungary. International attention is anticipated to be focused on Hungary thanks to the designs of the star architects – the recently awarded Hungarian House of Music by Sou Fujimoto and the New National Gallery designed by SANAA. It is our great pleasure that after the success of the Museum of Ethnography last year, the Liget Budapest Project has again proved itself at the International Property Awards competition.”
