(stainless steel, granite, marble)
Gábor Miklós Szőke’s sculpture, The Builders, was made to be placed in front of the Hillside office building. It is a metaphor of creation and a contrast to the monochrome building here in the heart of the Buda Hills. From afar, it seems to be an abstract sculpture, but if we get closer, the tornado shape reveals a whirling swarm of several thousand bees, which were inspired by the green spaces of the district and the building’s location in a natural wind tunnel. The worker bees, just like humans, strive to create and to build. Despite their large number, the several thousand bees of different sizes move and work in perfect harmony, a notion also expressed in the organic silhouette of the sculpture. The beehive, just like the Hillside office building towering around it, is the home of constructive and cooperative labor.
Making of the builders
