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All you need to know about Budapest’s newest park – PHOTOS
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For a long time, this spot had been a brown stain on the map of the capital. At one point, this industrial plot was used as a parking lot, and they even planned to build a mall on top, but fortunately, the fate of this spot was different. At the end of this summer, it became a breezy, green, and exciting new public park with amazing elements of landscape architecture. It is the newest park of Budapest, the Széllkapu.
According to Index, they do not often build parks in big cities, and even if they do, it is usually not like Széllkapu. Most of the time what they call parks are small areas of grass planted in the middle of an apartment complex or some random benches put under some tree, but this one – luckily – is very different.
Széllkapu is a relaxation park, which implies that there are ways one can relax and recharge in this new green environment. While in many parts of the world, people enjoy sitting around in the grass having picnics or reading, Hungarians are only now learning to be able to relax like that. And this new park is perfectly suitable to do so. The park was immediately “taken over” by people on lunch breaks, high school students from the area, and families with small children. It is partly thanks to the fact that from the get-go, the park was a thick and luscious green with not just young trees.
As we mentioned, most of Széllkapu has a thick and beautiful green area with some interesting plants as well.
The hanging garden, for example, has a miniature forest at its base, which provides sufficient shade to relax in. Although the weather in early summer might have helped make this park the greenest possible, we should also highlight the works of the designers: TSPC Technical Supervision and Planning Consulting Hungary Kft. (architecture), 4D Tájépítész Iroda (landscape architecture), and Parkertech Kft. (landscaping), who have hidden some interesting elements in every inch of this new park and who have crammed the most green into this urban jungle.
