The Orczy Forum, Budapest.
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Unique designed living colony in Budapest
Waymark Code: WM9Q7T
Location: Hungary
Date Posted: 09/18/2010
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In the VIII.-th. district of Budapest has been built a new city centre, called Orczy Forum. The centre's planning began with the urban redevelopment planning in 1990 then following this based on a Swiss investor's commission in the same year.The original plan was a 5 star hotel with 400 rooms on the empty field of Baross street 135. but it did not come true about financial problems. The centre is built on this plot with the partial use of the foundations of this building. It was the ninth and the last building with 160 flats. In the end of the 1980 years there were some industrial buildings too beside the poor conditioned houses, they has been bought by investor companies wich were built under nine period of the today face of the Orczy Forum. The original plan was an office and a merchant building with a parking garage (today Orczy square 1-4) and a hotel with 400 rooms. This makes today the main, inner building. Then later a shopping centre wich remain only a plan. The functions of the buildings were changed with the passing years, the new conceptions made the present-day status of the Orczy Forum.
The whole ground of the centre is: 17.250 m2
The gross built-in area of the centre: 63.540 m2
Building Address:
Orczy tér 1.
Budapest, Hungary
1089
Is it open to the general public?: yes
When was it built? (Approximate if you must.): 01/01/1990
What is the name of this building?: Orczy - Forum
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