Whoever enters the 9,000 sqm culture house with concert rooms, a museum, a library as well as numerous workshop rooms will have one foot in Budapest's 200-year-old park, at least in the entrance area. Sou Fujimoto was inspired by the shape of sound waves when designing the roof structure. At the same time, the playfully undulating canopy is perforated by about 100 crater-like recesses of different shapes and sizes in which park trees grow. The roof construction ensures that the building blends harmoniously into its surroundings.
The boundary between inside and outside blurs in this building, however, not only vertically but also horizontally. The façade consists of 94 thermally insulated glass panels that are up to 12 metres high. Concertgoers are thus always surrounded by nature, even in the transparent entrance hall.