TOWER IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE ACQUISITION OF CATHERINE DICKENS PROPERTIES, THE PRESTIGIOUS BRAND IN THE SEGMENT OF LUXURY APARTMENTS November 27th, 2013

Merger with Catherine Dickens Properties - Tower now serves more overseas Landlords than ever. Tower-International is a market leading company in Budapest, which has been in the property management industry for more than 10 years now. With 700 downtown properties under management and 50 staff looking after clients, Tower has been successfully servicing overseas investors and homeowners in the capital. The partnership that has long existed between Tower and Catherine Dickens Properties now evolved...

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Architects Forming the Classical Budapest - Gyula Rochlitz, Architect of the Budapest Keleti Railway Station November 23rd, 2013

Gyula Rochlitz, architect of Budapest’s busiest railway station, the Keleti railway station made plans for several other buildings for the Hungarian State Railways. A lot of foreign tourist visiting Hungary arrive at the Keleti railway station; annually not less than half a million passengers purchase tickets at the international cash-desk. Gyula Rochlitz was born in 1827 in Eperjes. He studied architecture in Vienna, and later started to work in Pest. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 he...

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Architects Forming the Classical Budapest - Albert Schickedanz, the Architect of the Heroes’ Square November 23rd, 2013

Three monuments on one of the most famous Budapest sites, the Heroes’ Square, the Millennium Monument , the Museum of Fine Arts and the Kunsthalle are the most remarkable works of architect Albert Schickedanz, who was a master of the Eclectic style. Albert Schickedanz was born in 1846, in then Galician, now Polish Biala, in a family of a German origin who though considered themselves Hungarians. He studied in Germany and in Vienna, and in 1868 he started to work in Pest, with architect Miklós...

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Architects Forming the Classical Budapest - Ignác Alpár, the Architect of the Vajdahunyad Castle November 23rd, 2013

One of the City Park’s most popular monuments, the Vajdahunyad Castle was built by architect Ignác Alpár. The monument that is home for the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture is visited by several hundred thousand tourists annually.  Ignác Alpár was born in 1855 in Pest in a craftsman family, his original name was Ignác Schöckl. His father was a carpenter, he made the windows of the Vigadó Concert Hall. Alpár first started to work as an apprentice bricklayer, and later studied in Berlin....

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People Forming the Classical Budapest - Mihály Pollack, the Creator of the Hungarian National Museum November 19th, 2013

Mihály Pollack was one of the most renowned Hungarian Classicist architects. A lot of foreign tourists visiting Hungary take a tour in the most important building built by his plans, the Hungarian National Museum, where the most precious treasures of the Hungarian history are kept. Mihály Pollack was born in 1773 in Vienna as a son of a master builder. He studied in Vienna, and later started working in Italy: he took part in the constructions of the Milan Cathedral in 1793. In 1798 he moved to...

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People Forming the Classical Budapest - Frigyes Schulek, Creator of the Fisherman’s Bastion November 19th, 2013

Architect Frigyes Schulek never got the financial and moral appreciation in his life he would have deserved by his works. Today many foreign tourists travelling to Hungary visit his most important work, the Fisherman’s Bastion, the Belvedere Tower on John’s Hill and the Matthias Church, which gained its current looks by his plans. Frigyes Schulek was born in 1841 in Pest, his father was a merchant and also a clerk in the Ministry of Finance, in the era of ministry of Lajos Kossuth. Schulek had...

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