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Vince Ballay – Nicolette Tsani

The hot topic of the beginning of winter in Budapest was the emergence of skyscraper-adorned government dreams of a Cancer manager. In everyone’s eyes, the area that has been neglected for decades needs tidying up, but the method of development raises many questions. We toured the latter area with Šczuka Leventi, the settlement architect, and the area with a camera. Video about the cancer manager’s condition, dreams and solutions.

For more than 30 years, cheese has been melting on hot sandwiches, and on weekends, braised meat simmers in Rákosrendező’s perennial star, Manó Büfe. Until the past few weeks, it seemed like this would remain the case for a long time, and that time would stand still in Rakosrendez, where nothing is eaten away by rust, rubbish piles up, weeds spread, and the development ideas that occasionally emerge are often lost in the mist.

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However, the government’s idea came like a bolt from the desert sky at the end of November: They dreamed up a skyscraper-studded real estate development here, likely with the help of an Emirati investor. No wonder the project has been referred to as Mini-, Maxi- and Rákosdubaj.

Guests and servers at Manó Büfé, as well as visitors who have to wait long at the barriers, agree that something needs to be done in the area, but many questions remain about what exactly. For example, are skyscrapers really necessary here, to what extent should the government pay attention to the people living in the area, and how beneficial would it be to engage in development?

The urban architect Balint Domani Volkip has already spoken about these issues, and according to him, the skyscraper is not the problem at all. I interviewed the architect David Smilo, who sees the example of Paris rather than Dubai. The government also clarified his vague ideas and heated up. By BFK Under the leadership of David Vitese, the capital developed development ideas.

This time, in a video report, we try to answer the questions that arise regarding the project, as well as the Cancer director himself. Szczuka Leventi, the settlement architect, helps with this. Last year, he and his Gudullo students spent an entire semester researching what and how they should do with the Rakus principal, including the area around Nyugati railway station and Rakuspalota-Oypest, and the results were reported in detail on the Architects Forum.




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