CORVIN PROMENADE, BLOCK 125, OFFICE BUILDING C4

Planning status
Realized
Planning year
2014 - 2016
Planning area
32 000 m2
Locality
Budapest
Lead Architect
Zoboki Gábor DLA habil., egyetemi tanár, Borzák Richárd, Szatmári Gábor
Architects
Turi Zoltán, Szabó Valéria, Országh István, Mayer Brigitta, Scheibl Lilla, Besey Judit, Kovács Eszter, Orlovits Balázs, Fekete Attila, Antmann Somogyi András
Liu Dan, Györgyi Csenge
Main design partners and consultants
Vision Építésziroda Kft., Demeter Design Stúdió Kft., The Greypixel Workshop , FRT Raszter Építésziroda Kft., Terraplan' 97 Mérnökiroda Kft., G&B Plan Kft., Provill Kft., T-Network Kft., Mérnökiroda Mérnöki Iroda Kft., Land A Kft., 4D Tájépítész Iroda Kft., Optomm Mérnök Iroda Kft., '95 APSZIS Bt., Interton Kft., Toppedion Kft., Közlekedés Kft., Mobilterv Kft.
Client
Corvin 4 Ingatlanfejlesztő Kft., Futureal Holding Development Kft.
Awards
FIABCI World Prix d'Excellence Ezüst Díj 2018 FIABCI magyarországi tagozatának nívódíja 2017 Portfolio Property Awards "Év projektje" díj 2017

The Corvin Project is a 21st century real estate development project that affects an entire quarter of the city in a traditionally built area of Budapest with lagging population. Block 125 designed by ZDA for office and residential functions recreates the atmosphere of classical city squares with the main square in the middle and the connected community spaces in the heterogeneous urban texture. 

Corvin Block 125 is one of the most complex design areas within the Corvin Promenade. Single-level to three-level developments usual in the first half of the 20th century are mixed with the 17 and other multi-level concrete block-of-flats architecture of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The challenge in the task was to find the scale best fitting the heterogeneous city texture.

In 2006, in the framework of a restricted tender, our Corvin Knowledge Park plan for a block of the Corvin Project won the competition. In 2014, as a continuation, we prepared a plan for a block receiving office and residential functions where we aimed at a 21th century phrasing of classical city squares when shaping the development. The character of Block 125, differently from generously handled other public squares of the Corvin Promenade, invokes a small-town scale: it is a complex of community spaces one loosely flowing into another with a main square in the centre connecting pedestrian axes, decorated with a contemporary sculpture.

The design of office buildings, which we analyse not only from architectural, but also from functional aspect, was handled with priority. After several development versions, the office buildings were installed as an “asymmetrical gate”, leading the theatrical Grand Promenade into a more relaxed series of city spaces with this solution. Next to the office buildings with dashing, arched elevations, we designed stocky residential towers, and the cosy public areas of the quarter flowing into one another appear between the blocks with different character.

In the professional contest of International Property Awards, the Corvin Promenade won the Award for the Best Mixed-Function Real Estate Project in 2010, and, in 2014, the Global Award for Excellence of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) – called also the Oscars of real estate development – as well. The building received BREEAM qualification which is the benchmark ofenvironmental awareness.