Shortlisted Designs for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art

John Hill
10. junio 2016
Photo: Screenshot from competition website

The competition was launched in 2015 for a the new Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, a €30 million museum building that would become "a cultural and arts center of interregional as well as national significance." Twenty-five architects were invited in the first stage of the competition and the jury* selected the seven finalists. The jury met on the 6th and 7th of June, so the winner should be announced later in the month.

The seven finalists:


Images of the finalists are below, but click on the links above to see more of their designs on the Malcolm Reading competition website.

*The jury: David Bickle, (chair), Director of Design, Exhibitions and FuturePlan, Victoria and Albert Museum; Uldis Balodis, Architect, representing the Ministry of Culture;Gianni Botsford, Director & Head of Design, Gianni Botsford Architects; Jānis Dripe, Architect, representing the Ministry of Culture; Reinier de Graaf, Partner, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and Director of AMO (OMA’s think-tank); Luke Jerram, Visual artist and director of Luke Jerram Ltd; Ieva Valtere, Executive Director, Pillar Management, SIA; Elīna Vikmane, Board Member, Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation.

Adjaye Associates (UK) and AB3D
Caruso St John Architects (UK) and Arhitektu birojs Jaunromāns un Ābele
Henning Larsen Architects (Denmark) and MARK arhitekti
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (Finland) and MADE arhitekti
Neutelings Riedijk Architects (Netherlands) and Brigita Bula arhitekte
Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany) and Arhitekts Ingurds Lazdiņš
wHY (US), OUTOFBOX Architecture and ALPS

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