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The 9,000 m2 House of Music is nestled amongst the trees inside Budapest’s City Park.

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Designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the cultural heart, which opened on Jan. 23, gives exhibitions, schooling and live shows.

Budapest’s newest concert hall, The House of Music, aims to create harmony between nature and music through serrated glass walls and light wells.

Designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the cultural center, which opened on Jan. 23, offers exhibitions, education and concerts.

Designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the cultural center, which opened on January 23, offers exhibitions, education and concerts.

Part of the city's wider cultural development project, the House will offer two concert halls as well as education and exhibition spaces.

Sou Fujimoto has completed the House of Music, a music museum and concert venue set beneath an undulating roof inspired by the tree canopy in Budapest’s City Park.

This January, the House of Music, Hungary will open in Budapest: a brand-new cultural landmark for the city, which is dedicated to the creation of music and sound.

An unusual music museum has opened in a city park in Budapest.

There are few buildings in Budapest that can create the feeling of being “both outside and inside”, but which are as discreetly dignified in their natural environment as the Hungarian House of Music handed over last week.

“House of Music, Hungary’s noble mission to bring the miracle of classical music closer to the younger generations. The classical music will win the hearts of youth thans to the commitment of the House of Music, Hungary. ”

Looking a bit like a big holey pancake nestled among the trees, the latest work from Sou Fujimoto Architects continues the firm’s practice of producing exciting and eye-catching works with a new museum dedicated to music.

A new cultural location designed by Japanese architect Su Fujimoto has opened its doors in Budapest City Park.

The round hole-studded bulk of a large crumpet looks to have fallen in the center of Budapest's City Park, impaled on a thicket of trees.

Budapest's latest cultural landmark, The House of Hungarian Music, has opened its doors to the public.

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Part of the city's wider cultural development project, the House will offer two concert halls as well as education and exhibition spaces.

Visitors explore the sound dome at the House of Music, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto in Budapest, Hungary, January 23, 2022.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto's highly anticipated House of Music has officially opened its doors to the public.

With its jagged glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light To permeate its halls, Budapest’s new futuristic Concert Hall aims to create a harmony between nature and music, providing visitors with an uplifting experience.

On the 23rd of January 2022, the House of Music in Hungary opened in Budapest: a new contemporary cultural landmark dedicated to music in Budapest.

It has a 12-metre (39.4 ft) high continuous glass wall that consists of 94 pieces in a zig-zag arrangement that reflects back sound, creating homogeneous acoustics with the sound quality the same everywhere, its designers say.

Sou Fujimoto Architects, a Japanese architecture firm that is renowned for its innovative, creative and highly attractive designs, has well and truly outdone itself with its ability to turn a musical museum in Hungary into a veritable architectural landscape in the urban environment in which it resides.

The new cultural venue, set in the Hungarian capital’s City Park, is dedicated to the experience of music – and has a striking punctured roof

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest's futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

On the 23rd of January 2022, the House of Music in Hungary opened in Budapest: a new contemporary cultural landmark dedicated to music in Budapest.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest's futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest ’s futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

This January, the House of Music, Hungary will open in Budapest: a brand-new cultural landmark for the city, which is dedicated to the creation of music and sound.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto was commissioned to create a concert hall in the centre of Budapest’s City Park.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed a museum for music in a pastoral setting in Budapest's largest park beside Városliget Lake, near Heroes' Square, one of Budapest’s most important attractions, on the site of a formerly demolished office block.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest’s futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

Part of the Liget Budapest Project, an ambitious plan that will usher several museums into the Hungarian capital’s sprawling City Park, the House of Music celebrates the history of the arform with an eye-catching home designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

A new Sou Fujimoto-designed music museum has opened in Budapest, and its overhanging roof echoes the canopy of trees that surrounds it.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest’s futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

Looking a bit like a big holey pancake nestled among the trees, the latest work from Sou Fujimoto Architects continues the firm's practice of producing exciting and eye-catching works with a new museum dedicated to music.

Sou Fujimoto Architects’ latest work, which looks like a large perforated pancake surrounded by trees, is exciting.

nestled among the trees of budapest‘s city park is a new cultural landmark dedicated to music designed by japanese architect sou fujimoto.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest's futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest’s futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

With its serrated glass walls and perforated roof that allows natural light to permeate its halls, Budapest's futuristic new concert hall aims to create harmony between nature and music, giving visitors an uplifting experience.

All-glass House of Music blooms in Budapest park

Sou Fujimoto’s House of Hungarian Music, a contemporary cultural landmark dedicated to music in Budapest's City Park has officially opened its doors to the public.

The House of Music, Hungary is now officially open to the public. Designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the House is regarded as one of the most anticipated buildings of the year and an ambitious rethinking of a 21st century museum space.

The House of Hungarian Music is a dramatic (and costly) celebration of the country’s musical heritage

The House of Music, Hungary opened yesterday, 23rd January, in Budapest: a brand-new cultural landmark for the city, which is dedicated to the creation of music and sound.

On the occasion of the Hungarian culture day, last Saturday the House of Hungarian Music designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto was inaugurated.

Sou Fujimoto’s House of Hungarian Music, a contemporary cultural landmark dedicated to music in Budapest’s City Park has officially opened its doors to the public.

A new landmark on the European cultural scene is now on view in Hungary. Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music has now officially opened in the country’s capital city after almost six years of construction.

The ‘House of Music’ in Budapest, Hungary, is now officially open to the public.

The Hungarian capital is now home to the House of Music, a new performing arts space dreamed up by celebrated Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

Architect Sou Fuijimoto and Liget Budapest Project reveal the House of Music in Hungary, a striking cultural landmark with a nature-inspired roof

The highly anticipated House of Music in Hungary has opened its doors.

Tíz éves tartalmi és műszaki tervezés, majd építkezés után nyílt meg szombaton a Liget Budapest projekt keretében felépült Magyar Zene Háza, amely vasárnaptól a nagyközönséget is várja koncertekkel, interaktív állandó kiállítással, zenepedagógiai foglalkozásokkal és számos egyéb programmal.

Concerti, mostre, laboratori di educazione musicale, iniziative per appassionati di musica di ogni età: a fine gennaio aprirà al pubblico la House of Hungarian Music di Budapest, punta di diamante del polo museale che sta nascendo in uno dei parchi storici della capitale ungherese. Il progetto, che aspira a un'armoniosa fusione con il verde circostante, porta la firma dell'architetto giapponese Sou Fujimoto.

As part of the government-funded Liget Budapest project to create a museum quarter in the Hungarian capital’s oldest public park, the House of Music, Hungary, opens its doors to the public on 23 January.

His recently completed House of Hungarian Music, in Budapest, will not only provide a long overdue place to learn and enjoy everything about the country’s musical scene and traditions, but will also serve as a hub for the local community to meet and enjoy music among the lush greenery of the surrounding park.

As part of Europe's largest cultural urban development, the Liget Project, comprising five new museums in the heart of the City Park of Budapest, the House of Hungarian Music will be a place for concerts, exhibitions and features a striking roof with many punctuations.

A “palace of musical miracles” in Budapest

It’s a big year for music in the museum.

A “palace of musical miracles” in Budapest

On 22 January – celebrated in Hungary as the anniversary of Ferenc Kolcsey writing the words of what would become the national anthem – the House of Hungarian Music opens in City Park, Budapest.

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House of Hungarian Music, designed by Sou Fujimoto, completed construction at the end of 2021

The House of Hungarian Music was already considered a breakthrough building at the beginning of the year through the design plan, so it is no coincidence that the construction process was already receiving a lot of attention—this is confirmed by the fact that this article was the most read on the site this year.

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A hole-filled slice of Swiss cheese has landed in Budapest’s wooded City Park, forming an undulating canopy above the trees. This is the new House of Hungarian Music, by experimental Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, designed to host concerts in a glade-like setting, along with a library and exhibitions on musical history.

In our 2021 list, while Sou Fujimoto's live session hits this year's list under the theme of Discovering Performative Architecture of Sou Fujimoto, Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher's live talk on Speed Redefined: Designing In Remote-controlled Era - New Architectural Intelligent Agents is ranked in the second row by getting the highest number of views.

The discussion also explored the House of Hungarian Music, which is nearing completion in Budapest, and latest work Seaside Haikou Pavilion, by triggering the question of how architecture can be more inclusive.

The House of Hungarian Music – described as a ‘stunning new concert hall’ by Time Out – is set to open in early 2022.

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The House of Hungarian Music - described as a 'stunning new concert hall' by Time Out - is set to open in early 2022.

Embedded in the forest within Budapest’s city park, the House of Music – Hungary comprises an exhibition space dedicated to the history of music, an intimate concert space and library. Japanese practice Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed these spaces to sit underneath a canopy-like roof, which is punctured by approximately 100 individually designed holes for trees to emerge through.

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Opening in early 2022, Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music, Hungary in City Park features a roof perforated with 100 or so cavities that allow natural light, trees and sound to infiltrate the two performance venues, exhibition spaces and library, which are linked by magnificent spiral staircases, and a complete glass exterior to aid reliance on renewable energy.

All the projects on this list are united by one common thing: each building or structure is a bold architectural work that makes a concrete statement about our world.

House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto is a “modern and extravagant home for music” in Budapest’s City Park. The project is part of the Liget Budapest redevelopment plan and celebrates the long history of Hungarian contribution to music. Defined by its distinctive roof featuring almost 100 punctured holes, the building boasts an interior full of natural light.

In the designs for the highly anticipated House of Hungarian Music project Sou Fujimoto aims to dissolve the boundaries between the building and the Városliget park surrounding it. The key element is a large floating canopy structure punctured with holes that represents sound waves.

The pandemic may have brought work to a halt on projects around the world, but next year is nonetheless set to welcome an exciting array of new buildings.

The House of Hungarian Music, part of the Liget Budapest Project, has won the World's Best Use of Music in Property Development at the Music Cities Awards. Also selected as one of the top three Best European Development category, the intervention, designed by Sou Fujimoto is under construction on the former site of the demolished Hungexpo office buildings in Budapest, Hungary. Scheduled to open in 2021, the structure of the building is complete, and the iconic roof is taking shape, as well as the monumental glass walls, the largest of their kind in Europe.