The buildings of Budapest’s City Park tend to be in bad condition. In favour of providing a well-kept, pleasing park for visitors, the planned developments include constructions of new buildings substituting old ones, which are to be erected in the currently concrete-covered area. Due to one of Central Europe’s biggest park renovations, the amount of green areas is expected to increase from 60% to 65% by 2018, while the overall quality of the park is planned to be fundamentally improved – as promised by Városliget Zrt.
Due to the City Park’s rehabilitation, the approximately 50 000 m2 parking lot will be eliminated, the amount of areas covered in concrete will significantly drop, while cars will be able to park below the surface in underground garages. Instead of vehicles, families and pedestrians can take over the previously load and crowded spaces and the enormous parking area at Dózsa György road, which will be substituted by green areas, while also providing space for the new City Park Theatre and Ethnographic Museum.
The accessibility of the park will be developed in the following years. In the place of the old, deteriorated buildings, the most renowned architects of world have designed museums to construct. The New National Gallery is designed by the Pritzker-prize winner SANAA, while Sou Fujimoto, the 2014 recipient of “Innovator Award” is designing the Hungarian House of Music.
The out-of-date infrastructure is planned to be changed for new, secure and floodlit sports courts, modern playgrounds and promenades, which will also harmonise with the new, expanded green areas. The landscape architecture tender closes this April, allowing the new plans of the park to become public. The City Park will be again the home of outdoor sports: runners, joggers will be able to exercise all day and all night in safe and secure conditions.
(Source: http://realista.hu/ingatlanpiac/total-lerobbant-a-varosliget-milyen-lesz-a-feltamadas/130414)
