Récsei Center
Récsei Center rises as a vast shopping and entertainment centre, where open space and modern shops occupy a former bus garage. Dezső Hültl and Győző Mihailich designed the hall in 1930, using an engineering system that left its 7,200 square metres free of interior columns.
During the Second World War, heavy damage struck the building, which returned to use after reconstruction by 1947. The hall took the name Ernő Récsei in 1948 and housed city buses for decades before restoration created its present use in 2004. Sculptures by Jenő Bory once decorated the walls, adding art to the industrial setting.
As you look across the unobstructed interior, the scale still suggests rows of buses beneath the roof. A later proposal for an ice rink and sports facility remained unrealised, leaving the former garage’s column-free hall as its clearest architectural feature.
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