Representing both emerging and established practices with offices in seven countries, including Australia, the shortlisted entries show a variety of responses to the challenge of creating a world-class museum.

The Guggenheim has announced the finalists in the competition to design Guggenheim Helsinki, whittling down the entrants from a record-breaking 1715 submissions to just six. Representing both emerging and established practices with offices in seven countries, the shortlisted entries show a variety of responses to the challenge of creating a world-class museum.

The six finalists are:

AGPS Architecture Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland and Los Angeles, US)
Asif Khan Ltd (London, UK)
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (New York, US; Barcelona, Spain and Sydney, Australia)
Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050 (Stuttgart, Germany)
Moreau Kusunoki Architect (Paris, France)
SMAR Architecture Studio (Madrid, Spain and Western Australia)

Finalist: GH-121371443. Image Courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants

“The final shortlist encompasses a number of different scenarios: from schemes which are more experimental in engaging with the program and whose outward form will only emerge in the second phase, to ones that might seem more resolved from the outside but whose programmatic concept will only evolve fully in the second phase,” notes the jury’s official statement, adding that “The single theme, which linked the chosen six, and united the jury, was the impulse to expand the idea of what a museum can be. How can this new museum create a vital, meaningful, public, and intellectual presence within Helsinki?”......Continue Reading

> via The Australian Design Review