When you get off the ferry at Badacsony, you hardly notice the building designed by Ferenc Callmeyer, which opened its doors as the Tátika Restaurant in 1962. Its exciting cantilevered floor hung five meters above the water, where a confectionery and bar were operating. A valuable late-modern creation, beautifully integrated into its surroundings, which is loved and appreciated by aesthetic experts. Although the building has been classified as a historic monument for 12 years, it no longer houses a confectionery or a bar. A tragic story of design and construction, its gutted, stripped-down structure awaits a better use in the harbour. More on this was reported a year ago by the Hungarian architectural magazine, Építészfórum.
You can find late-modern buildings with a similar fate, functionless, with a shabby bazaar, basically anywhere on the shores of Lake Balaton, but fortunately, there are also some beautifully restored, preserved examples around the lake.
Without being exhaustive, I have brought some of the most exciting architectural solutions to life in the form of posters. All of them are (or were at one time) closely linked to water, and this symbiosis between the two masses works perfectly.
The posters are available in the Hype Store.
For those who are more interested in the architecture of Lake Balaton, we recommend Domonkos Wettstein’s book Balatoni építészet (‘The Architecture of Balaton’), which explores the architectural heritage and design history of the lake shore in the twentieth century.
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