The renovation of the center of the Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület and the reconstruction of the dormitory on Ráday Street, which burned down in 2019, are in full swing in Budapest.
The building complex that also houses the headquarters of the Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület in Ráday Street in Budapest is currently standing on scaffolding behind a protective net. Four floors of the new building erected on the site of the dormitory that burned down in January 2019 have already been completed. Forty-eight double rooms with a terrace and a private bathroom will be created in the student dormitory. A garage will be built under the building, and a panoramic terrace will be located on top. There will also be a chapel in the church district center, and the facade of the building will be restored to its appearance a hundred years ago.
Architect Zoltán Berzsák has designed several Reformed churches in recent years. This time, he prepared the plans for the college and the building wing on Ráday and Köztelek Street, which houses the bishop's office. As he told the Reformed Newspaper, it was not only exciting to recall the traditions of the Ráday Street center in a modern way, but also to create and bring the spaces used by various institutions to cooperation.
Source: reformatus.hu
"In terms of the amount of work, the level of completion of the building complex can be roughly twenty to twenty-five percent," said project manager László Seres, who added that the investment is progressing according to schedule. The buildings should be structurally ready by the end of September, but this section will probably be completed by the end of August. The last, fifth floor of the dormitory is already being built, and everything needed has been laid out in Ráday Street as well. The new walls are mostly finished, the plastering is also in progress. The building engineering and electrical installation work has already started, and the basic cables for these have already been installed.
"I feel that we have turned into the finish line." The architects and the contractor had an exciting task until they found all the problems of this old building and explored its potential. But we will have it from now on, because we can imagine what will be on the walls, Zoltán Balog told the Reformed weekly.
Source and featured image: reformatus.hu
