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Budapest Music Centre

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Budapest Music Center has a key role in the cultural life of the Hungarian capital since 1996. The new building celebrated its first anniversary in March 2014. The 150 years old residential building in Budapest’s 9th disctrict has been transformed into a vibrant cultural center. The old courtyard, retaining its original stone walls, was rebuilt into a concert hall around which the different institutions of BMC are grouped: The Musical Information Centre – Hungary’s largest music library, The Peter Eötvös Institute bearing the name of its founder, a composer, conductor and professor, the Opus jazz club and restaurant, BMC’s offices and recording studios. Budapest Music Center was designed by the trio of art1st design in Budapest: Abdel Rahim Chehade, Dorottya Göz and Daniel Taraczky. Arhitizer, the worlds largest and fastest growing website for architecture awards the A+ Award in cooperation with Wall Street Journal every year in more, than 60 categories. Entries were received from more, than 100 countries this year, and represent the best of architecture and design worldwide. Winners are chosen by an illustrious jury of 300+ jurors, including such luminaires as Paola Antonelli senior curator at MoMa, Charles Adler founder of Kickstarter, Andrew B. Cogan CEO of Knoll, Nathalie de Vries and Winy Maas from MVRDV, Nicola Formichetti lead designer at Diesel, Brandon Haw from Foster+Partners, Robert Ivy vice president and CEO of AIA, Natasha Jen from Pentagram, Hubert Klumpner dean of the architecture department of ETH in Zürich, Aaron Koblin creative director of Google, Eckart Maise head of design and R&D at Vitra, Kathleen Massara Arts & Culture Editor, Huffington Post Media Group, Evan Osten founder of Cool Hunting, Evan Sharp co-founder of Pinterest, Shohei Shimagatsu partner at OMA, Dr. Angelika Taschen publisher, Karen Wong from New Museum, and the only Hungarian member of the jury, László Jakab Orsós director of PEN World Voices Festival New York.

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