The idea is to create a museum quarter in Budapest to rival those in other European cities
years the offices of HungExpo, an events company, sat disused and dilapidated in Budapest’s City Park. In 2016 the building was torn down so that construction on the House of Music , a new exhibition and performance space, could begin. Close to Varosliget Lake, Vajdahunyad Castle and the Museum of Fine Arts, the institution, designed by Sou Fujimoto, a Japanese architect, finally opened in January.
The House of Music encompasses a permanent exhibition, a temporary exhibition gallery , a music education centre and three performance spaces. The main concert hall is smaller than many of Budapest’s performance venues by design. “When you have a big hall, you need big names to fill it,” says Marton Horn, the director of operations. “Our intention here is to have more experimental concerts in all genres—classical folk, jazz, electronic.
The House of Music is the first part of an ambitious redevelopment plan called the Liget Budapest Project, costing €1bn : the idea is to create a museum quarter to rival those in other European cities. A new, purpose-built Museum of Ethnography, designed byArchitect, a firm based in Budapest, will open later in the spring and construction of a new National Gallery, designed by Japanese architectsThe endeavour has not been without controversy.
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