Plans of new Hungarian Skating Centre for 43 billion HUF

According to index.hu, Bord Architectural Studio won the international competition for building the National Ice-skating Centre. Bord Studio had built the stadiums of Debrecen and MTV, too. Lajos Kósa, director of Hungarian National Skating Federation announced the news on a press conference on Tuesday. Building the winner plan would cost about 43 billion HUF according to the first assessments.

As MTI reports, 8 contestants applied to the international Union tender, three of the plans were bought and two were awarded. The winner project made by Péter Bordás, Zoltán Hollkókövi and Zsigmond Dezső won a gross 15 million HUF prize.

According to Lajos Kósa, the National Skating Centre will be built on Istvánmező, on the area of Budapest Olympic Centre, in place of Millenáris and Kisstadion.

“The investment is planned to be implanted by the Hungarian government and the inventor will be the National Sports Centre in consortium with the Hungarian National Skating Federation”

said Kósa, adding that the first part of the job is already done, since the winner of the contest had been selected.

The first data informs about prices and deadlines. According to the schedule, following the announcement of the tender, the investor can enter into a contract with the implementer in the January of 2018, and the facility is expected to be done by 2022.