The Guggenheim revealed that the design entry entitled “Art in the City” – submitted by Moreau Kusunoki Architectes – a firm founded in Paris in 2011, is the winner of Guggenheim Helsinki competition.

June 23, 2015. Today, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced the winning design in the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition: a concept that invites visitors to engage with museum artwork and programs across a series of linked pavilions and plazas organized around an interior street. Clad in locally sourced charred timber and glass, the environmentally sensitive building would comprise nine low-lying volumes and one lighthouse-like tower, connected to the nearby Observatory Park by a new pedestrian footbridge and served by a promenade along Helsinki’s South Harbor.

Moreau Kusunoki Architectes is led by Hiroko Kusunoki and Nicolas Moreau. Notable projects undertaken by the firm include the Théâtre de Beauvaisis in Beauvais, the House of Cultures and Memories in Cayenne, the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Bourget-du-Lac, and the plaza for the Paris District Court (designed by Renzo Piano) at the Porte de Clichy.

As the winner of the competition, Moreau Kusunoki will receive a cash award of €100,000 (approximately US$109,000). An award of €55,000 (approximately US$60,000) will be given to each of the five finalist teams: AGPS Architecture ltd. (Zurich and Los Angeles; GH-1128435973), named runner-up by the jury; Asif Khan Ltd. (London; GH-121371443); Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Cristina Goberna, Urtzi Grau) , Jorge Lopez Conde, Carmen Blanco, Alvaro Carrillo (New York, Barcelona, and Sydney; GH-5059206475); Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050 (Stuttgart; GH-76091181); and SMAR Architecture Studio (Madrid and Western Australia; GH-563168177.

Images courtesy of The Guggenheim Foundation.

You can see the entries of the six finalist designs from the link below.