Danube Bath
In December 2024, the Budapest City Council voted to commission a feasibility study on the creation of a Danube Bath (open-air swimming pool) in Budapest. We played a significant role in this—and it is a great pleasure for us. At the request of Budapest Spas and Thermal Waters Llc. (Budapest Gyógyfürdői és Hévizei Zrt. / […]
Danube Minimum Program
Duna Minimum Program On March 7, 2024, we presented our Danube Minimum program at the Valyo Club. This program compiles initiatives within the purview of local governments that can make the Danube riverfront better, more beautiful and livable, and make the Danube accessible to as many people as possible. We developed the Duna Minimum program […]
Waterside Voices
WATERSIDE VOICES | Connecting communities and waterscapes Through the WatersideVoices project, we’re working in Brussels, Rijeka, and Budapest to transform streams, rivers, and canals into vibrant spaces for everyone. Our goal is to increase accessibility and resilience along the Danube, Senne, and Rječina rivers by creating connection points for and with local communities. Many European […]
Hengermalom 2025
Valyo’s latest project, the revival of Hengermalom, a former roller mill, continues in 2025. The Hengermalom project strives to both honour the Danube riverside industrial heritage and transform it into a modern community space: a place where the industrial character of the past meets the creativity of the present. By the end of last year, […]
Bert promenade
Between Hengermalom and Árasztó-part there’s an abandoned trail on the coast of the Danube, which is only approachable adventurously. We call it – after the BERT effluent – Bert promenade. The coast of the Danube in front of Hengermalom we call Hengerpart. We think it’s important that this area get into the bloodflow of the […]
Árasztó-part 2025
This year we started the fifth season of the Árasztó-part, that was realised on the Danube riverside of Albertfalva. Just like in the previous years, with a low budget and with tiny interferences we transformed the area to a park to rest and do recreational activities in: the area gained 6 more picnic tables, it […]
Rakpart ~2025
On the RAKPART between Lánchíd and Erzsébet Bridge, on the Jane Haining rakpart, we created a temporary park to rest and a created a temporary public square, that got people close to the area of the city and the river. The free, car-free lower quay of Pest awaits, where on weekends and public holidays, pedestrians […]
Budapest Boat Crossing 2025
This year we organized the Rowing through Budapest event for the fourth time, where nearly three hundred people rowed together in 70 boats from Római part to Hengermalom. This year, for the first time, participants could also join in with dragon boats, so along with canoes, kayaks, rowing boats and SUPs, almost every type of […]
Budapest Boat Crossing 2024
This year we organized the Rowing through Budapest event for the third time, where more than 200 people, in nearly 50 boats, rowed together from Római part to Dürer kert. We touched the water of the Danube and crossed the city in a way that we rarely get to do. Together we showed how important […]
Hupli furniture
Seating areas – HUPLI furniture family Slope benches and Grill HUPLI furniture is a solution for the public use of sloping waterfront dyke structures. The stepped embankments are well suited as seating areas and provide an opportunity to spend time there, but the 25-35 degree sloped flood protection structure made of stone makes it difficult […]