LIget Budapest was launched in Spring 2014 as an architectural open competition with the objective to find out appropriate designs for five cultural venues in the Capital of Hungary. The planned buildings were aimed to house the New National Gallery, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary art, the Museum of Ethnography, the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the House of Hungarian Music.

Unfortunately the jury “has not found any entry suitable for implementation” among the 83 proposals received for the New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum.

The organizer has thus recently announced that the competition has been relaunched as an invited contest. More info at http://www.ligetbudapest.org/

Consequently, seven prominent architectural firms have been invited to compete for the crown, they are: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, David Chipperfield Architects, Mecanoo, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, SANAA, and Snøhetta … Ubi maior, minor cessat.

But, despite not having find proposals suitable for proceeding to the second stage of the competition and, eventually for realization, five designs have nevertheless been awarded a honourable mention prize. Here they are.

ALL – ATELIER LORENTZEN LANGKILDE. Denmark

GILLES RETSIN, ARCHITECT. Belgium

ULARGUI Y ASOCIADOS ARQUITECTOS. Spain

YURAN CHOI, YONGSU CHOUNG, HYUNJUNG KIM. South Korea

SHOP ARCHITECTS. USA