Empty buildings in Budapest
The real estate market seems to care little about important or simply magnificent buildings. Many of the city’s famous properties are decaying and no-one seems to be able to find a solution. The most famous case is Gozsdu udvar between Király and Dob utca. It was a Paris-style passage full of small businesses, offices and flats before the war. The bitching has been going for decades between the district, a cunning investor, the last inhabitants and the Rumanian state. In the end, the building was so run down that it could be used as a stand-in for post-war Berlin setting in the movie Spy Game, (imdb: tt0266987). They started the renovation recently but you are still able to visit if you can sneak past the guards. You might get an indescribably weird feeling of being in a scenery for a post nuclear strike role playing game.
Úttörő Áruház, V., Kossuth Lajos utca 7-9 . (Used to be the first shopping mall in Budapest. Last name was “Pioneer’s department store”)
Gozsdu udvar between Király and Dob utca
Divatcsarnok, Andrássy 39. “Fashion Hall”, (used to be a very chic shopping mall)