Our visualizations for the Pesti Fonódó tram concept, a proposed Budapest corridor developed with Paragram Stúdió, were shared last week by Dávid Vitézy, Hungary’s incoming Minister of Transport and Investment.
The proposal closes one of Budapest’s most-discussed gaps in public transport: a continuous tram corridor between Deák Ferenc tér and Lehel tér, weaving the city’s separated lines into a single, transfer-free system.
The brief centred on three of the corridor’s most contested moments: Nyugati tér without its flyover, replaced by a green public square; a planted track corridor running wall-to-wall down Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út; and the church at Lehel Square released from the asphalt that currently surrounds it.
Each render was built to make a city-scale transformation legible at a glance, at concept stage, before engineering is signed off and the political room for design narrows.
Within days of release, the images had moved well beyond architectural circles and were covered by 444, Telex, Portfolio.hu, and Építészfórum, with coverage continuing in regional outlets.
At this stage of an infrastructure project, shaping the public conversation is part of the work itself. The Pesti Fonódó visualization series was produced in collaboration with Paragram Stúdió.
