House of Music Hungary
Undulating perforated roof letting real park trees rise through a museum and concert venue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the House of Music Hungary follows architect Sou Fujimoto's decision, when he won the commission for a new music venue inside Budapest's City Park, to refuse a wall between building and forest and instead design a roof punched through with openings for the park's real trees. It traces how that idea carried indoors, through thousands of suspended bronze-toned leaves hung from a hidden steel lattice, and a five-year construction that opened in 2022 with Hungary's prime minister at the doors. Best experienced looking straight up, where the real branches meet the false ones.
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