Hungary’s Hello Wood organisation first constructed an eye-catching pop-up park of creatively crafted wooden benches in central Pest’s often-underused Városháza Park in 2017 – and we are happy to report that passers-by will once again be free to lounge on wildly curvaceous seats in the same site this summer. Over the weekend, We Love Budapest noticed that several new Hello Wood structures were already in place at this open space by Deák tér, with more building materials piled up nearby to indicate that this year’s pop-up park will be bigger and more colourful.

The extra-experimental carpenters of Hello Wood were originally inspired to fill Városháza Park with functional art pieces after noticing how this central Budapest square was usually empty. When designing the long wavy benches that filled the pop-up park in early July of 2017, the primary goal was to welcome the public into this urban oasis. Their efforts worked wonderfully – all summer long, people filled these intriguing lounge areas where the artful benches provided a variety of options to take it easy for awhile, whether sitting upright to read or lying back to sunbathe.

In late May, We Love Budapest contacted Hello Wood and city officials to learn the good news that Városháza Park would once again host a pop-up park this summer, but details were not finalised at that point… however, during this past weekend, we noticed that construction is already well under way, and snapped the following photos of the new project in progress:

Currently the entire area is cordoned off while the building process continues, but it appears that Hello Wood’s 2018 pop-up park will soon be officially open to the public – and We Love Budapest will certainly let our readers know when it’s ready for unconventional reclining!

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