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PHOTOS: This iconic Budapest building’s roof will collapse
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Budapest’s Biodome is one of the most unique buildings of the Hungarian capital, but it is not yet finished. Budapest did not have enough money to finish the project, and the government froze all money taps. However, the building needs heating, which costs astronomical amounts. Therefore, the leadership of the capital decided to end the heating of the unused place, which may result in the roof’s collapse.
That is what Anett Bősz, Budapest’s DK-delegated deputy mayor, talked about to Népszava, a Hungarian daily. Mrs Bősz said the municipal local government will no longer pay the bills for the Biodome. That is because the government does not give them enough support.
Based on the data of the Budapest Zoo, between November 2022 and May 2023, maintaining the Biodome cost more than HUF 500 million (EUR 1.3 million) even though it is used for almost nothing. The income reached only HUF 36 million (EUR 93 thousand). The state started and financed the Biodome project, but they have not finished it. Completing it would cost HUF 60 billion (EUR 156 million), and Budapest does not have the money for that. This is how it should look:
Bősz added that without heating, the roof of the Biodome may collapse. That may mean the end of the hall that was designed originally to recreate the Subtropical environment of the Pannonian Sea. The number of visitors of the Budapest Zoo reached one million in 2022.
Hard for me to understand. We really cut back at our house and took 25% off our bill this year. Something does not seem right here.
It been over 5 years they closed applied arts museum and little has happened since – the addition looks like junk. Why not just restore what is there- it’s amazing place.
The industrial and history museum has been over 7 years- you have to wonder.