Frontiers Campus foundation stone laid – the Ferenc Krausz-led project enters a new phase

On 31 March 2026, the foundation stone of Frontiers Campus was laid in Budapest. The event marked a new milestone for the flagship research and development investment being realized on Magyar Tudósok Körútja, and for which BuildEXT worked on the design. At the foundation stone laying ceremony, in addition to Nobel Prize-winning researcher Ferenc Krausz, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also delivered a speech; the aim is to establish a world-class research center in Hungary.

“We are also building Frontiers Campus so that it will rank among the best, a place where the world’s best researchers will be happy to come, and where the best Hungarian researchers will also be happy to return home. Frontiers Campus will connect to institutions from which we can learn, from which our top researchers will come, and where our young talents will be able to learn. ” said Ferenc Krausz.

“The advanced economy of the future is built on ideas that lead to new technologies, on discoveries that create new industries, and on research that makes our lives more efficient and better. High added value – that is what we must create” he explained.

Ferenc Krausz noted that there are excellent research institutes in many places, and there are also successful talent development programmes, but Frontiers Campus will be the place where these two meet: where we will develop our students’ abilities under one roof together with our top researchers, and help guide them towards the work of our role models.

For us, Frontiers Campus was an especially exciting assignment because even at concept design stage we had to work on the architectural translation of an exceptionally complex programme. Research, healthcare, diagnostic, office and support functions had to be shaped into a unified system in such a way that, alongside the highly demanding technical background, the building’s character would remain clear and consistent.

More information about the Molecular Fingerprint Research Center can be found here, and the video of the foundation stone laying ceremony can be viewed by clicking here.