PHOTOS: Amazing Budapest park to double in size in the heart of the city

The parking lot in the courtyard of the City Hall in Budapest has been eliminated, and the current 4,000 square meters of the Passage and Inner Courtyard will soon be expanded to 7,000 square meters, which, after decades, will finally be open to the people of Budapest.

City Hall Park to be almost doubled in size

The City Hall Park is entering another important phase, the Mayor’s Office reports. The renovation work on the facade facing Kiskörút (Small Boulevard) is now nearing completion, allowing the car park to be safely transformed into a green area. For the time being, the area will be opened up as a pop-up park with temporary elements. However, the design of the final version is also underway, in parallel with the winning design in the design competition.

The pop-up park is a further extension of the free-roaming area, the first element of which was the Passage, which opened last November on the 150th birthday of Budapest and connects the Kiskörút to the city centre.

The aim is to give the place back to the people

One of the important commitments of the current city government was to create the City Hall Park on the site of the former run-down courtyard, which was closed off to the city’s residents, as part of the redevelopment of the City Hall block.

“Our aim is to create a new, open, green main square in Budapest: to give back to the people of Budapest the fenced-off area in front of the City Hall, where we will create a green agora. We will bring people closer to the day-to-day running of City Hall and host a diverse range of events to make City Hall Park a place for culture and encounters,” the Mayor’s Office writes.