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Fifteen World-Renowned architects compete For The Museum Of Ethnography
Hungary Architecture News - Jan 04, 2016 - 10:17 5374 views
image courtesy of Liget Budapest Museum of Ethnography
The Liget Budapest Project has selected 15 architecture and design studios for an international competition to design the Museum of Ethnography in Hungary, which is to be located on the edge of the Városliget, City Park. Városliget Zrt., as the Contracting Entity, announced a restricted, two-stage international design competition for the design of the Museum of Ethnography building, within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project, on the territory of the City Park (Városliget) Budapest.
By the construction of the new buildings and complete renewal of the green area of the City Park, and by the renovation and expansion of the institutions already present, Liget Budapest will be one of Budapest’s leading tourist and cultural destinations, and a family leisure park known all over Europe. The Liget Budapest Project includes one of the largest new museum development investments in Europe today. It covers the complete renewal of the green area of the City Park Budapest, the construction of four new museum buildings together with other related program elements.
The Museum of Ethnography houses more than 200,000 ethnographic artefacts a quarter of which includes the international material; and it also runs the largest archive of the profession containing archived documents, more than 400,000 historical photographs, manuscripts, sound archives and film library.
Fifteen prominent international and Hungarian architect offices participating in the design of the Museum of Ethnography in Hungary now listed as below:
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Dominique Perrault Architecture
Emre Arolat Architecture (EAA)
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
1 firm is unknown
The results will be announced in May 2016. According to plans, the new home of the Museum of Ethnography, meeting professional and visitor requirements at the highest standard, will open its doors on Ötvenhatosok Square in 2019, as part of the Liget Budapest Project.
The final projects will be evaluated by an 11-member jury of Hungarian and international museum and architectural experts including: László Baán, Governmental Commissioner, chairman, Edwin Heathcote, architect, architectural critic of Financial Times, co-chairman, Dr. Balázs Szeneczey, Deputy Mayor, Zsolt Füleky, architect, Deputy Secretary of State in architecture and construction affairs, György Fekete, president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Lajos Kemecsi, director of the Museum of Ethnography, Prof. Uwe R. Brückner, architect, exhibition designer, Paula Cadima, architect, Co Director, London AA School of Architecture, Juhani Katainen, architect, former dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Tampere University of Technology, Sou Fujimoto, architect, lead architect of the House of Hungarian Music, Tamás Varga, delegate of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects.