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Flóris Korb
Flóris Korb
	Statue of Flóris Korb
Born	Flóris Nándor Korb; 7 April 1860; Kecskemét, Habsburg Empire
Died	16 September 1930; Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	TU Berlin, Berlin
Occupation	Architect

Flóris Korb (born as Flóris Nándor Korb, Kecskemét, 7 April 1860 – Budapest, 16 September 1930) was a Hungarian architect.^[1]

Career

After finishing his studies in Berlin, he returned to Budapest to work under Alajos Hauszmann for fourteen years, during which time he took part in designing the New York Palace. In 1893 he entered into a partnership with Kálmán Giergl which resulted in many important commissions in the developing capital. Korb was awarded with the Greguss prize in 1924 and was admitted into the Royal Institute of British of Architects.^[1]

Works

New York Palace, with Hauszmann & Giergl (1891–95)
Croatian Art Pavilion at the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest (1896), with Giergl^[2]
Klotild Palaces, Budapest (1899–1902) hu:Klotild paloták
Kiraly Apartments, Budapest (1900–01)
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (1904–07)
Clinic buildings, Mari and Ulloi ut, Budapest
Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca (w. Kálmán Giergl, 1904–1909)
Commercial Savings and Insurance Bank (today Press Building), Kecskemét (1909–12)
Mint Building, Budapest
Debrecen University, (1914–30)
Zielinski Water Tower, Szeged (1903–04)

References

^ ^a ^b Korb Flóris, Hungarian Electronic Library, retrieved 12 May 2012 (in Hungarian)
^ Damjanovic, Dragan. "Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51–74". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[MEK-1] Korb Flóris, Hungarian Electronic Library, retrieved 12 May 2012 (in Hungarian)

[2] Damjanovic, Dragan. "Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51–74". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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