RAKPART~2024
In the summer of 2024, we created a temporary rest park and public space on the Pest lower embankment between Chain Bridge and Elizabeth Bridge, on Jane Haining rakpart, bringing people closer to urban spaces and the river. The RAKPART project was born in the spirit of the urban planning movement called placemaking. Placemaking aims […]
Perfectly suitable for bathing?!
River Swimming Pools and Danube Baths: Feasibility in Budapest In Budapest, you can’t swim in the Danube, aside from two exceptions: the free Római Open-Air Beach and the paid Kopaszi-gát Beach. To better endure Budapest’s summer heat waves, city residents need access to as many free bathing areas as possible from late spring to early […]
QUAY~2023
RAKPART~2023 is about community, about our river – about us.
Valyo Viaduct
A unique space hidden beneath Tram Line 2 For several kilometres beneath Tram Line 2, locked doors conceal an extraordinary series of spaces stretching between the Chain Bridge and the Elisabeth Bridge. These vast rooms, closed off for decades, are now gradually being reclaimed. Valyo Viaduct: In 2022, as part of the Budapest Placemaking Days, […]
PONTIpoly
Within the framework of the DANUrB+ programme, we built a pontoon bridge out of canoes on the Ipoly river over the Slovak-Hungarian border together with students of the BME Department of Urban Studies. In July 2021, a symbolic project reflecting on the situation during the Covid19 pandemic and the transformation of human relations was carried […]
Árasztó-part 2021
Placemaking, new place in Újbuda We opened a previously completely abandoned space on the river bank in Albertfalva, on a fully experimental basis. Parallel to the cycle path running along the flood protection dike at the height of the lower quays, it is a several kilometre long deserted stretch of land used mainly by fishermen, […]
River Baths in Budapest
Swimming in the Danube in the past and the future – Public art installation and programme series in the framework of Flaszter I. Budapest Biennale of Contemporary Public Art. In the autumn of 2023, we participated in Flaszter I. Budapest Biennale of Contemporary Public Art. with our project “River Baths in Budapest”, where we placed […]
Árasztó-part 2022
Placemaking in Újbuda
Budapest Boat Crossing 2023
Community experience on the Danube On Sunday, 16 July 2023, 150 rowers and 60 small boats crossed the capital from the Roman Coast to the Kopaszi Dike to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Budapest. At all times, the boats and SUPs were protected from larger vessels by a rolling barrier in accordance with safety regulations. […]
Budapest Boat Crossing 2022
Community experience on the Danube On Saturday, 14 May 2022, the city woke up to a special day: we paddled together from Óbuda to Újbuda and at the same time opened this year’s Árasztó Beach. The team of the City and River Association marched through the capital together with about two hundred participants and a […]