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Anyone visiting the Blaha Lujza Square in Budapest can be part of a journey back in time, the blackened and battered walls of the Corvin department store have not looked like this for over half a century.
It is a unique building in the history of the city, as the facade of the store was not demolished or demolished, but was actually covered up, and now, as a find, it has been unearthed.
– The architecture journalist Dávid Zubreczky told RTL news about the renovation.
The long-awaited renovation of the Corvin department store, worth HUF 300 million, began in March, Index said. The façade is restored to its original state, so that Budapest can recover a classicist-style palace.
Memorable, the building received monument protection in 2003, and in 2014 the municipality of Józsefváros ordered the owner to remove the aluminum cladding and restore the original facade. The demolition of the pavement also began in 2018, when the forgotten parts of the building appeared, on the basis of which the renovation plans were completed.
“We have found the elements from which remanufacturing can be made, although many things have been destroyed, but it is still possible to restore the state close to the original”, Tamás Noll, head of the design office of M -Teampannon, now he told RTL.
It is not yet known exactly when Corvin will regain its former luster, the construction company is now being selected. However, the owner is optimistic, he said that the renovation of the facade could begin later this year.
The most beautiful square
When it opened in 1926, no great future was forecast for the Parisian and London-style department stores, which finally gave Blaha Lujza Square a bourgeois boost for a few decades. “Where women have such beautiful legs as in Budapest, there is a clear need for a large store in Western Europe,” the later CEO convinced investors. In the 1920s, several large-scale projects were carried out in the capital, involving the entire army of Hungarian artisans. The Turvin House in Újlipótváros “approaching the skyscrapers of the great metropolises” and the Vasas Art Deco Headquarters in Józsefváros were also preceded by the Corvin Department Store, which was the sight of Budapest with its neon inscriptions, dazzling shop windows and the first country escalator. .
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