New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum has Snøhetta and SANAA tied for 1st prize
15/04/2015.
Competition [Budapest] Hungary
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA, ALEX DURO
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA, ALEX DURO
An international design competition was announced within the framework of Europe’s presently largest museum project – for the first time in Hungary for more than two hundred years – to construct museum buildings as part of Budapest’s new museum quarter. A few months after the architects for three of the development's buildings were announced, now, Snøhetta and SANAA tied for first prize for the construction of the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum building. However, it seems that the ultimate winning proposal is yet to be chosen between the two, after the jury meets with both teams.
SANAA proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
SANAA proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
SANAA proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
SANAA proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
Snøhetta proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
Snøhetta proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
Snøhetta proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
Snøhetta proposal for the New National Gallery/Ludwig Museum. Image courtesy of Liget Budapest Design Competition.
The Liget Budapest Project will realize five new museum buildings at a cost of 75 billion HUF (approx. € 252.4m). The project is a large effort to revive Budapest's 200-year-old City Park and have it become a Hungarian landmark and global cultural destination. According to plans, construction work will commence in 2016 and open in March 2018.
The results of the open, international architectural design competition for four new museum buildings were announced last December:
The Ethnographic Museum will be constructed based on the design by Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes of France, the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the FotoMuzeum Budapest will be built according to the design by Középülettervező Zrt. of Hungary, and the Hungarian House of Music based on the design by Sou Fujimoto, a Japanese star architect.
The jury has ranked two competitive projects in first place in the restricted international architectural design competition for the construction of the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum building. The jury pronounced the designs of SANAA and Snøhetta,[...] The final design will be chosen from among these two projects during meetings with the architects, based on professional and financial considerations. In addition to the two competitors in first place, the jury gave out two second place awards to Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and to the joint proposal of Balázs Mihály's Architect Studio and the Faculty of Architecture of Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
“The aim of the restricted competition, in which star architects were also invited to participate, was to provide a home for the Budapest New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum in a modern, contemporary building of outstanding architectural value that meets 21st-century requirements and is worthy both for the City Park and for one of the most important public collections of Hungary,” said László Baán, the ministerial commissioner of the Liget Budapest Project. [...]
The 11-member jury of Hungarian and international experts not only evaluated the architectural quality and ideas to be applied in regard to the future museum, but also assessed the technological and functional solutions (e.g. anticipated visitor experience and museum technological solutions), the sustainability of the designed building (energy efficiency, ecology,) its dialogue with the environment (including aspects relating to the green area, its embeddedness in the urban landscape, its connection with the City Park, access to the building), and the expected expenditure (costs of implementation and operational costs). Since the connection between the park and the built environment is a top priority in the Liget Budapest Project, aimed at the renewal of the City Park, the designs propose a substantial increase in the City Park’s green areas. This spring, Városliget Zrt. will announce a landscape design competition for the complete renewal of the park.
JURY.-
- László Baán, ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project and director-general of the Museum of Fine Arts.
- Roueida Ayache, architect; Paula Cadima, deputy head of department at AA London School of Architecture, architect.
- Edwin Heathcote, architectural critic for the Financial Times, architect.
- Eva Jiricna, architect.
- Juhani Katainen, former dean of the faculty of architecture of Tampere University of Technology.
- Imre Bálint, the president of the Budapest Chamber of Architecture, architect.
- György Fekete, president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, interior architect.
- Sándor Finta, chief architect of Budapest; Zsolt Füleky, deputy-state secretary for architecture, architect.
- László György Sáros, president of the Association of Hungarian Architects, architect.
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KAZUYO SEJIMA & RYUE NISHIZAWA. SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, Japan, 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (Kanagawa, Japan, 1966) worked independently from each other before founding the SANAA Ltd. studio in 1995. Having studied architecture at the Japan Women’s University, Sejima went on to work for the renowned architect Toyo Ito. She set up her own studio in 1987 and in 1992 was proclaimed Young Architect of the Year in Japan. Nishizawa studied architecture at the Yokohama National University. In addition to his work with Sejima, he has had his own practice since 1997.
The studio has built several extraordinarily successful commercial and institutional buildings, civic centres, homes and museums both in Japan and elsewhere. These include the O Museum in Nagano (1999) and the N Museum in Wakayama (1997), the Day-Care Center in Yokohama (2000), the Prada Beauty Store in Tokyo and Hong Kong (2001), the Issey Miyake and Christian Dior Building in Tokyo (2003) and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2004). Sejima also designed the famous Small House in Tokyo (2000), the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio (2001-2006), the extension to the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002 – ), the Zollverein School, Essen, Germany (2003-2006), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003-2007) and the Novartis Campus WSJ-157 Office Building, Basle, Switzerland (2003 – ).
In 2004 Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale for their distinguished work on the Metamorph exhibition.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won the 2010 Pritzker Prize.
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, was directed by Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to direct the venice architecture biennale, since its inception in 1980.
Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima. Kazuyo Sejima
Craig Dykers, Kjetil Thorsen. Snøhetta
Snøhetta is an integrated architecture, landscape, and interior design company based in Oslo, Norway, and New York City, formed in 1989 and led by principals Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen. The firm, which is named after one of Norway's highest mountain peaks, has approximately 100 staff members working on projects around the world. The practice pursues a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach, with people from multiple professions working together to explore diverse perspectives on each project.
Snøhetta has completed a number of critically acclaimed cultural projects, including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt; the National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; and the Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway. Current projects include the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center site in New York.
In 2004 Snøhetta received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and in 2009 the firm was honored with the Mies van der Rohe Award. Snøhetta is the only company to have twice won the World Architecture Award for best cultural building, in 2002 for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and in 2008 for the National Opera and Ballet in Oslo.
