At the time of its construction the housing estate József Attila (1956-1963) in Budapest was a sample project (installation, interior spaces, new structures and materials) which has been obsoleted in the last 50 years. After winning the architectural and urban competition using openminded architectural thinking that can make the housing estate a new role model againincreasing existing values and give new ones, the paper presents the principles of design which could be standard for neighborhoods of similar history.