Stunning VISUALS, VIDEO: New National Gallery’s construction starts in Budapest
Construction of the new National Gallery is scheduled to start in the City Park next year and open its doors to the public by the end of this decade, the company in charge of the project, Városliget Zrt, said on Thursday.
The planned gallery now has a valid building permit and a public procurement procedure has begun. It will be built on the site of the previously demolished Petofi Hall, and will host the the modern collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery.
Together with the new National Gallery, the most important national exhibition spaces covering photography, ethnography, music and visual arts will be accessible along a single walking axis, “which is unique in the world”, the company’s statement said.
Hungary’s government is committed to its construction, an essential element of the renovated City Park, making the park an attractive cultural quarter and putting it on the cultural map of Europe, the statement added.
An international jury selected the plans of Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architecture firm SANAA.
Budapest Liget is currently Europe’s largest-scale cultural urban development project, the statement said.
At a government news briefing today, the head of the prime minister’s office, Gergely Gulyas, said he was aware that the project manager had announced a conditional public procurement procedure. “It doesn’t amount to much yet, only that we’ll see how much it would cost to build it”.
Here is the video:
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So international? this is why Hungarian people with talent leave the country for more opportunity- the three big museum projects are nothing exceptional – atleast give the locals a chance to give their ideas especially if it’s taxpayer funded- if they don’t meet the call – reach out to other countries. Unlike a more classic design – the year it opens is the best it will ever be .
Modern architecture doesn’t age well, especially when it designed for the moment. None of it compare to work that was being done 80-100 years ago. The restoration work that is being done is far more exciting.