The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Helsinki city officials announced details of an open international design competition on Wednesday for a proposed new 130-million-euro museum along the South Harbor of the Finnish capital.
It is the first time the Guggenheim foundation has sought a design through an open competition. Malcolm Reading Consultants is managing the competition, which will be judged by a jury of 11 architectural experts and headed by Mark Wigley, dean of the graduate school of architecture at Columbia University. The competition will be conducted in two stages with anonymous submissions for Stage 1 due Sept. 10. The jury will select six finalists from these submissions and all entries will be viewable online.
