It has been revealed that the proposal from SANAA will be constructed in Budapest’s Vársoliget Park, as part of a large cultural masterplan that involves the development of five new museum buildings. SANAA’s proposal has ultimately been selected as the winner, following negotiations held over the past few months. The museum will be joined by a design from fellow japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who will complete the site’s ‘House of Hungarian Music’.

In 15 April 2015, it was announced that Snøhetta and SANAA competed for first place to design the New National Gallery - Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary. The New National Gallery will host “the largest domestic collection documenting and surveying the development of Hungarian and international fine arts,” featuring art collections between 1800 and 1950, while the Ludwig Museum will be devoted to contemporary art. The two will be housed under the same roof, yet operate independently.

The project is currently the largest on-going museum initiative in the world. The development and renovations will entirely renew the city park area of Budapest, with the ‘New National Gallery’ standing as the site’s cultural centerpiece and its construction is expected to wrap up by the Summer of 2019.

‘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 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.

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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

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