What BORD Architectural Studio does

BORD Építész Stúdió (BORD Architectural Studio) is a privately held Hungarian architectural design firm founded in 2006 by Ybl Award-winning architect Péter Bordás. The firm provides full-service architectural design across masterplans, residential developments, hotels, wineries, cultural facilities, educational institutions, and sports/recreational complexes, serving municipalities, hospitality chains, private developers, and corporate clients. It operates from three offices — Budapest (headquarters), Debrecen, and Zürich — with a team of approximately 30 architects, engineers, and supporting staff under an 11-partner senior leadership structure.

The studio's core offering is end-to-end architectural design integrated with in-house mechanical engineering (BORD Épületgépész Stúdió) and landscape architecture, supported by BIM management and digital development workflows. Notable technical outputs include a 20,000-seat UEFA Category 4 stadium (Nagyerdei Stadion, LEED Gold), Hungary's first LEED Gold office building (Forest Center Debrecen), a thermal water park with 50–70% renewable heating, and a circular 500-student international school in a Natura2000 forest zone. Marquee work — particularly the Sauska Tokaj winery — has won nine or more international awards in 2024 alone, including WAF Finalist, Architizer A+, WAN Gold, DNA Paris, BLT Built Design Awards, Architecture MasterPrize Best of Best, Tucker Design Award, IDA Silver, and BIGSEE.

Revenue is generated through project-based professional service fees scoped per engagement, with no public pricing or recurring SaaS component. The go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales to project owners, municipalities, hotel operators, and developers, supplemented by competition entries, architectural publications, and the DECODE annual design competition (founded 2018, 74 entries in 2025) which functions as a brand-building ecosystem. Customer concentration leans on a few anchor relationships — notably the Debrecen municipality across multiple large civic projects — alongside a portfolio of named hospitality (Mercure, Hilton Garden Inn, Ypsilon Yacht Club), winery (Sauska Tokaj, BudaPrés Cider), and educational clients. The firm is privately held by its founders/partners with no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or public listing.

Name

BORD Architectural Studio

Legal name

BORD Architectural LLC

Website

https://bordstudio.hu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BORD Architectural Studio is a Hungarian privately held architectural design firm founded in 2006, operating from Budapest, Debrecen, and Zürich with approximately 30 architects and engineers, delivering masterplans, hotels, wineries, sports, and educational buildings for municipalities and private clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Budapest

HQ country

Hungary

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Professional architectural services revenue from masterplan, residential, office, hotel, winery, cultural, educational, and sports facility design projects. Revenue is project-based with fees determined by scope, complexity, and project size.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

BORD provides full-service architectural design across masterplans, residential, office, hotel, winery, cultural, educational, and sports/recreational facility typologies, supported by integrated in-house HVAC engineering and landscape architecture teams. The firm delivers project-based professional services from program development through design processes to implementation, focusing on sustainable, character-driven design for municipalities, hotel operators, developers, and enterprises.

Product overview

BORD Építész Stúdió is a full-service architectural design studio offering comprehensive architectural design across multiple building types including master planning, residential, office, hotel, winery, cultural, educational, sports, and recreational facilities. The studio operates with integrated in-house capabilities through its BORD HVAC Engineering Studio for mechanical engineering services and landscape architecture, providing complete design and engineering support from program development through implementation. Notable projects include the award-winning Sauska Tokaj Winery, Nagyerdei Stadium (LEED Gold), Aquaticum Water Park, Forest Center Debrecen (Hungary's first LEED Gold office building), International School of Debrecen, and Mercure Hotels. The studio also runs the DECODE annual design competition supporting contemporary architecture and visual arts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DECODE: Annual design award and competition established by BORD to promote conceptual creation in contemporary architecture and visual arts, with prize money distributed across Architecture and Visual/Applied Arts categories.
• BORD Épületgépész Stúdió

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services (BORD Építész Stúdió) Full-service architectural design firm offering master planning, residential, office, hotel, winery, cultural, educational, sports, and recreational facility design for municipalities, developers, hotel operators, and enterprises.
• BORD Épületgépész Stúdió (HVAC Engineering Studio) In-house mechanical/HVAC engineering division providing environment-conscious building services, coordinated with architectural concepts for sustainable building solutions across all BORD projects.
• DECODE Award Program Annual design competition founded by BORD to support contemporary architecture and visual arts, focusing on conceptual creation and value creation in creative fields, with prizes awarded in Architecture and Visual/Applied Arts categories.

Quantifiable outcome

• LEED Gold certified projects including Nagyerdei Stadium and Forest Center
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DECODE FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018BORD established DECODE as an annual competition and exhibition to support contemporary architecture and art. The initiative focuses on conceptual creation and value creation, awarding prizes in Architecture and Visual/Applied Arts categories. In 2025, the 7th edition received 74 entries with total prizes of 3,100,000 Ft.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Foster + Partners: Large global architecture practice operating across commercial, cultural, sports, hospitality and infrastructure. Comparable as a competitor on international landmark commissions (stadia, hotels, cultural facilities) where BORD also competes, but at much larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Henning Larsen: International architecture firm with strong cultural, civic and sustainability portfolio, including a Nordic heritage similar to BORD's CEE base. Comparable on civic, cultural and masterplan projects and on integrated sustainability narrative.
• Gensler: World's largest architecture and design firm covering hospitality, commercial, sports and civic work. Comparable overlap on hotel, sports and commercial project types, though serving clients at much larger scale and through a global office network.
• Zaha Hadid Architects: Global architecture practice with award-winning cultural, sports, hospitality and masterplan portfolio. Comparable as a competing brand in architectural competitions and as a benchmark for the design prestige BORD aspires to.

Direct peers

• MVRDV: Dutch architecture firm with comparable international footprint, mixed-use and cultural portfolio, and reputation for award-winning, design-driven work. Similar business model of direct engagement with public and private clients on landmark projects.
• Studio Gang: Mid-sized international architecture studio with comparable sustainability focus, cultural and civic project mix, and similar reliance on a strong principal designer for creative direction. Directly comparable in scale and project typologies (cultural, hospitality, public realm).
• Snøhetta: Norwegian-headquartered architecture studio with comparable size (~300 staff) and similar scope across cultural, hospitality, sports and landscape-led projects. Directly comparable as a design-led international firm with integrated landscape and sustainability capabilities.
• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): Danish-anchored international architecture firm with similar hospitality, cultural and mixed-use project profile and award-winning global portfolio. Comparable trajectory from boutique studio to international brand and similar direct-engagement model with developers and municipalities.
• Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects: European architecture studio of comparable size with a similar founder-led creative identity, focus on hospitality, cultural and F&B projects, and an internationally recognised award portfolio. Closely comparable as a boutique design-led firm.

Regional players

• KÖZTI Architects and Engineers: Hungarian-headquartered architecture and engineering firm of similar vintage with comparable public-sector, cultural and residential portfolio in Hungary. Most relevant domestic peer and the most direct competitor for Hungarian municipal commissions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/BordStudio
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• Instagraminstagram.com/bordstudio
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Compliance12 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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