The Museum of Ethnography was chosen as the best public building in the world

The City Park is now home to two of the world's best public buildings based on international awards equivalent to the Nobel and Oscar.

The Ethnographic Museum realized as part of the Liget Budapest Project was chosen as the best public building in the world on May 30, in Singapore, announced Benedek Gyorgyevics, CEO of Városliget Zrt., after receiving the award.

According to a statement from Városliget Zrt., the museum designed by Ferencz Marcel was awarded a gold medal at the awarding gala of one of the most prestigious international real estate developer awards, the FIABCI World Prix d'Excellence.

The Hungarian Music House, a music initiation institution dreamed up by the Japanese star architect Szú Fujimoto, also won an award at the FIABCI international award ceremony, so now the two best public buildings in the world can be found in Városliget.

The jury of international experts in its rationale

he judged the two special institutions to be the best in the world in terms of sustainability, aesthetics and the visitor experience, which thus became the buildings with the most awards in Hungary

they wrote.

Benedek Gyorgyevics, the CEO of Városliget Zrt. responsible for the implementation of the Liget Budapest Project, said in the announcement: "the two special buildings have now become landmarks of our country that can be seen around the world, and at the same time new symbols of the capital and Hungary were born in them. In addition to prestigious awards, this is also confirmed by the fact that

the attendance of the two buildings exceeded all our previous expectations many times over.

In addition to winning prestigious accolades corresponding to the Oscar and Nobel prizes for architecture, the fact that the Ethnographic Museum represented our country in the Hungarian pavilion at one of the world's most prestigious cultural events, the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, confirms the level of the Ethnographic Museum's building," said the general director.

He emphasized: "in the first ten years of the Liget Budapest Project, centuries-old cultural institutions were renewed, and next to them, the most exciting contemporary buildings in the world were built. Thanks to the developments, the tourist attraction of Hungary has increased significantly, and the new contemporary grove buildings have become internationally known landmarks of our country. The fact that the first decade of the renovation of the City Park has already won more than two dozen prestigious international awards contributed to all of this. FIABCI's current recognition also confirms that Budapest's premier family experience park - with its impressive House of Hungarian Music and Museum of Ethnography -

has a place among the best tourist destinations in the world."

Founded in 1951 and active in more than 60 countries, the Paris-based FIABCI International Real Estate Association organizes the FIABCI World Prix d'Excellence every year, the purpose of which is to select and recognize the most successful real estate developments. Launched 30 years ago, the FIABCI World Prix d'Excellence is the world's most prestigious real estate development competition, in the history of which real estate developers from 37 countries on five continents have successfully participated. 63 prestigious professionals from 31 countries participated in the international jury, representing each special branch of the real estate development profession, it was announced in the announcement.

An international design competition by invitation was announced in 2016 for the design of the Ethnographic Museum. Out of the world-class field, the winner was the unanimous decision of the international jury, a Hungarian project by NAPUR Architect led by Ferencz Marcel. In addition to interactive exhibitions, the Museum of Ethnography, which opened in May 2022, offers an impressive Kerámiatér and Liget Budapest Visitor Center with a giant model showing the golden age of Budapest. Its approximately 7,000 square meter roof garden has become one of Budapest's favorite meeting places, they wrote.

They added that

this fall, the building will be enriched with a new attraction:

a greater proportion of the museum's unique collection than ever before will be available at the institution's new permanent exhibition under construction. Visitors will be able to see almost 3,000 works of art in the exhibition space of more than 3,000 square meters, which will open in September. The creation of the permanent exhibition in the collection, which presents new, Hungarian and international ethnographic material, also affects the public areas of the museum, so the museum will close at the end of June to welcome visitors with the new exhibition and renovated spaces in early autumn.

They recalled that the Museum of Ethnography drew the attention of the profession from all over the world after the announcement of the results of its design competition. At the International Property Awards in London, the most prestigious competition of the international architecture and real estate profession, in 2018 it was already chosen as the best public building in the world based on its plans, and was also awarded the Best Architecture main prize. In 2022, it won the main prize of the cultural category of the prestigious Swiss Built Design Awards, the first place of the Chinese Idea-Tops Awards in the cultural category, while the London International Creative Competition also chose it as the category leader, and the German German Design Awards awarded it with the recognition of "Excellent Architecture". It was chosen as one of the best projects of 2022 by the prestigious Dutch Archello Awards and the Italian Inside Quality Design Awards.

It is a huge success that in 2023, one of the world's most important magazines, the American Time Magazine, selected the Museum of Ethnography in its World's Greatest Places collection, which determines the travel decisions of millions of its readers. Also that year, it won the Paris Design Award and the International Architecture Award, and the ARCHITIZER A+ AWARD judged the building the best in the "museum architecture" and "architecture and facade" categories.

MTI

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