GANZ HOTEL

Year: 2010

Location: Ganz street, Budapest

Architect: Perényi Tamás

The planning program of the hotel was slightly different from the usual functional needs: investors wished for two-room hotel units, focusing on the clientele who are expected to spend more than a few days here. The hotel’s street-facing tract thus houses two-room apartment units, while the courtyard front features traditional one-room hotel units.

The exterior of the hotel fits in with the characteristic brick cladding of the surrounding houses: the façade features Dutch hand-laid brick cladding. Beside the brick, painted steel elements are the defining architectural elements of the facade; steel is not only a distant reference to Ganz Abraham's iron foundry in the street, but its detailed uses are seeking a contemporary connection with the turn of the century cast iron-brick architecture.