Construction of the new National Gallery in the City Park could start in a year or two

The Orbán government’s idea is that Budapest’s City Park could host a collection of the capital’s most prestigious museums. Several museums have already been built to realise this ambitious plan, and a new one, the National Gallery will be erected in a few years.

László Baán, the ministerial commissioner in charge of the Liget project, said at the exhibition of the project elements in the Hungarian pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, that the works have already achieved significant results, but the biggest and most important development is yet to come: the construction of the new National Gallery, designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Japanese company SANAA. This is what Liget Budapest’s new museum will look like – PHOTOS

As we wrote earlier, Budapest’s House of Music, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, has been awarded the Architectural Design of the Year award in the US’ prestigious Architecture MasterPrize competition, details HERE.

This new museum could help to put the revamped City Park on the cultural map of Europe. […] Any newly planned cultural district will only receive international recognition if it can boast at least one high-standard contemporary art museum.