#panelhaz

[scavengedluxury]

Budapest, 1971. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Ikarus and Panelház in Újpalota, Budapest, Hungary

Panelház is a Hungarian term for a type of concrete block of flats (panel buildings), built in the People's Republic of Hungary and other Eastern Bloc countries. It was the main urban housing type in the Socialist-era, which still dominates the Hungarian cityscape. 

[architectureworksonline-blog]

Panel house with loggias aka Tv-Panelhaz / “Teve” Pecs, Hungary, built in 1972 A… Panel house with loggias aka Tv-Panelhaz / "Teve" Pecs, Hungary, built in 1972 Architect Tillai Ernő

[marsyyas]

Panelki

[concreteconnections-blog1]

Prefab then and now. 

[concreteconnections-blog1]

What would the Roman’s have thought about buildings made of prefabricated concrete panels?

[concreteconnections-blog1]

The immense estates. In the touristic view, they are the first sight of the legacy left by communism, and as such a stunning, numbing, indictment - the sheer barbarity, the intellectual, visual and human vacancy of surrounding such diverse, picturesque and richly decorative cities as Budapest, Prague...with a cordon sanitaire of monolithic, univocal and reductive concrete slabs. You must trudge through in a coach or cab through communism to arrive at the gorgeous past, and the contrast is not kind. In the view of locals, it's unsurprisingly a little more complex.

Owen Hatherley in “Landscapes of Communism” 

[wiesnerzoltan]

Árkád alatt #korlat #panelhaz #minimal #budapest #welovebudapest #bnw_hungary #bnw_mania #bnw #mik #bnwmood #bnw_planet