Sou Fujimoto Sou Fujimoto proposes a building with glass walls protected under great white canopy, a sound dome, with openings that allow the entry of uz and sustainable and partly remember us a giant mushroom. Large openings create lightwells, which at times have vegetation, and which will in some places continue through the floors. The music museum take the place of the former Hungexpo Offices that have been scheduled for demolition.
This February the Museum of Fine Arts and City Park Property Development Zrt. announced an open, international competition for the design of the five buildings to be built in City Park, the location of the biggest ongoing museum development project in Europe. Of the more than 470 designs submitted by the end of May 2014 deadline, 17 were selected for the second round and were evaluated by an 11-member jury of Hungarian and foreign museum and architectural professionals to find the winning designs and award-winners for the buildings-to-be of the Museum of Ethnography, the House of Hungarian Music, as well as the FotoMuzeum Budapest and the Hungarian House of Architecture.
“Thanks to this design competition, the museums to be built in the City Park will create a harmonious dialogue with the park and its built environment, representing outstanding architectural value for Budapest and all of Hungary, while catering to the collections and the visitors with their 21st-century functional solutions at a world standard,” said László Baán, Ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project.
WINNERS. Hungarian Music House
1st prize.- Sou Fujimoto Architects
2nd prize.- ARCVS Projektni biro
3rd prize.- AVA | Andrea Vattovani Architecture
Entrants awarded with the invitation fee without ranking
— Kengo Kuma and Associates,
— 3H ÉPÍTÉSZIRODA,
— KLAIR Architecture,
