Public Choice Award

For ten years, Beta has been awarding quality architectural initiatives and projects in Romania, Hungary and Serbia. The international jury for each edition is made up of renowned architects, and the awards reflect our determination to promote authors and projects with a beneficial impact on the built environment.

For the first time in this competition, we have introduced the People's Award, through which we aim to improve the connection between architects and the general public, emphasizing the importance of architecture that directly addresses the values and needs of society.

We all live in and use the city and the spaces that architects design, so we want the Beta Awards to recognize the preferences of the general public. The Public Award is our way of bringing quality architecture closer to the general public and promoting those architectural projects that make us proud of the cities we live in. Each person can vote for one project in the categories of Built Space, Interior Space, Public Space, Graduate Projects and Research.

The public vote will be open together with the awards exhibition and will run until the end of the competition, when the project with the most votes will be awarded at the Beta 2024 Awards Gala.

Interior Space

Interior Design

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Alexandru Szuz Pop, Attila Kim, Adina Marin

Author(s) / Team representatives

Alexandru Szuz Pop, Attila Kim, Adina Marin

Profession

Arhitect

Collective/office

Attila KIM Architects

Co-authors/team members

Andreea Precup, Cristina Iordache

External collaborators

Marcela Prada, Danut Varodi, Karoly Magyar

Project location

Oradea, Romania

Budget în euros

75000

Usable area

90 mp

Project start date

martie 2021

Construction completion date

aprilie 2023

Website

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Photo credits

Kinga Tomos

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Text presentation of the author/office in English

Attila KIM Architects is the team led by the architect Attila Kim, an architect with extensive experience in the design of exhibitions and cultural events, restoration and architectural projects, nominated three times for the European Union Contemporary Architecture Award, the Mies van der Rohe Award, winner of several national awards at the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, Bucharest Architecture Annual, Transylvania Architecture Biennale, Arhitext Awards, and awarded in 2016 with the Arts and Society Leadership Award by the Aspen Institute for his contribution to Romanian culture. Attila Kim is a founding member of the architecture workshops Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi et Demi. Since 2012 he has been working independently, leading a young and dynamic team, under the name of Attila KIM Architects. The team members are Attila Kim, Alexandru Szűz Pop, Adina Marin, Andreea Precup and Cristina Iordache. Important projects include public buildings, residential buildings, showrooms, exhibitions and fairs, shops and restorations of historical monuments. Starting from 2016, Attila Kim is the Commissioner of Romania at the Venice Biennale.

Project description in English

The apartment is located on the first floor of a house in the protected area of the municipality of Oradea. The building was built in the first part of the 20th century and has compositional and decorative characteristics to that period. The apartment has a double orientation, towards the street front and towards the back garden of the house. The 90 square meter apartment originally consisted of two main rooms, a kitchen with a pantry and a storage room, a bathroom with two accesses, a service bathroom, distribution halls and a private terrace, that opens to the backyard. The interior architecture project focuses on the functional rethinking of the apartment, the redefinition of the circulations, the connection between the spaces and the relationship with the outside, taking advantage of the double orientation of the apartment. By unifying the access hall with the distribution hall and by creating direct links with the private terrace through double-opening doors, the relocated kitchen becomes the epicenter of the apartment. In place of the original kitchen, unified with the two adjacent storage spaces, a secondary bedroom was created, opening to the garden behind the building.

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