Architecture | LEAD Museums take prizes from Liget Budapest

The Laboratory for Exporative Architecture and Design (LEAD) in Belgium took home an award from the Liget Budapest architecture competition for a pair of museums characterized by their curving roofs and blue tile that relates to the country’s tradition of glaze innovation during the art nouveau period at the Zsolnay Factory in Pecs.

LEAD’s Architecture and FotoMuseum in Budapest won 3rd place at Liget out of 110 entries globally. The firm states of the project:

“LEAD’s proposal consists of two museums, the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the FotoMuseum Budapest, that simultaneously function as architectural emblems and as a gate to the Cultural Park. The organically undulating, colourful roofs lift up their edges, inviting people to explore and discover the unique and precious collections carefully housed inside.

“Both sister buildings, similar in form and appearance but distinctive in content and personality, communicate with each other and their surroundings using the Ötvenhatosok Square as a focal point for dialogue between City and Park.”