Stock Exchange Palace in Budapest

The Stock Exchange Palace located in Budapest's 5th district operated for a long time as a financial institution and later as a television headquarters. Since 2009 it has been out of use, and in the near future the Hungarian National Gallery will probably move into the building

History

The Stock Exchange Palace, situated on the western side of Liberty Square in Budapest's 5th district, was built between 1902 and 1907 according to the plans of Ignác Alpár (just like the headquarters of the Hungarian National Bank standing on the eastern side), as one of the largest buildings in contemporary Europe. Until its abolition in 1948 the Budapest Stock Exchange operated in it, then it served as the Lenin Institute, the Hungarian House of Technology, and from 1955 to 2009 as the headquarters of Hungarian Television. Although numerous repairs were carried out on it, the original execution was mostly ignored. In the 1970s and 1980s its then spacious and ornate halls were divided for studios, offices, warehouses and technical rooms. In 2009 the television moved to Kaszásdűlő, and since then the impressive, labyrinthine building has stood empty. Its reconstruction began at the beginning of 2018 with the demolition of many partition walls. On April 09, 2013 film shooting took place in the building.

At the end of 2024 it came into the ownership of István Tiborcz