Gábor Városi - Stories, Artworks, Artistic periods

239 The house sits with endless naturalness on the side of the mountain. As if it were a natural formation, a rock that rolled down the side of the mountain many hundreds of thousands of years ago, clearing trees and bushes, until it got stuck on a dirt bench and sat there. … “For sure, I prefer it when the luxuriousness is clear to the eye,” he admits (Gábor Városi – Ed.), smiling, and spreading his arms. “What can I do, that is how I am. I do not see any point in spending a lot of money on something, and then having to tell the initiated that the puritanical exterior conceals very expensive technology, and the less attractive materials are actually expensive, select stuff. If something is expensive, make it look expensive!” It was in the spirit of these ideas that the new sixapartment building was born, which (a rare moment in the history of Hungarian architecture and interior design) was created along an almost uniformly consistent concept: the caring attention of the project’s designer was present all along, during the creation of each apartment… Rolling Stone Excerpts from an article by András Iván Bojár published in Octogon magazine (2008) SHAMBALA HOME BUDAPEST Condominium 2008. Architects: Ferenc Lázár, Gábor Szabó D., György Berta, Renáta Rőth

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