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Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition Competition Conditions The competition is made possible by the Guggenheim Helsinki Supporting Foundation, Guggenheim Helsinkiin Association, Louise och Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation, and private individuals who wish to remain anonymous. © Malcolm Reading Consultants 2014 This document has been assembled by MRC with the authorisation of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the purposes of arranging the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition. We gratefully record thanks to the City of Helsinki Planning Department, the City of Helsinki Real Estate Department and Suomen Arkkitehtiliitto (the Finnish Association of Architects) for their assistance. Photo and map credits: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; City of Helsinki Survey Division (base maps); Tuomas Uusheimo; City of Helsinki Media Bank; City of Helsinki Museum, Aerial and bird’s eye photographs courtesy of the City of Helsinki. Front and back cover image, Boy Hulden. Malcolm Reading Consultants Limited T +44 (0) 20 7831 2998 F +44 (0) 20 7404 7645 offi[email protected] Fourth Floor 10 Ely Place London EC1N 6RY Contents Introduction 3 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 7 Background 8 Mission and Purpose 13 Museum Profile 14 Context and Heritage 25 The Competition Area 41 Competition Assignment and Guidelines 55 Competition Rules and Requirements 71 Finnish Translation 86 Swedish Translation 93 Appendices and Downloads 100 1 Waterfront view of the competition site looking across South Harbor from Congress Hall 2 Introduction The launch of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition is a remarkable moment for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the State of Finland, and the City of Helsinki. For the first time in the Guggenheim’s history of engagement with architecture, design, and urban life, the foundation is seeking a design for a museum through an open competition. Our goal is to inspire a design that will be both an exemplary museum of the twenty-first century and an internationally recognized symbol of Helsinki. From Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece on Fifth Avenue in New York to the historic palazzo in Venice that houses the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to the museums in Bilbao and now Abu Dhabi designed by Frank Gehry, all of the Guggenheim museums share the aims of fusing the experience of great architecture with contemporary art and reaffirming the radical proposition that art has the potential to effect change. We also embrace architecture as a way of extending our mission beyond the museum walls through groundbreaking initiatives such as the BMW Guggenheim Lab, which celebrated openness and public engagement in its innovative mobile structures designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. For Finland and Helsinki, this competition provides a powerful new opportunity to extend the acclaimed tradition of architecture and design. Benefiting from a maritime setting that is the equal of any world capital, a neoclassical center, and a modernist heritage exemplified by Alvar Aalto and Eliel Saarinen, Helsinki has recently embarked on an ambitious yet highly sensitive program of renewal and development. Wide-ranging actions at the state and local levels are generating the greatest urban transformation in the city since it became the capital of Finland two hundred years ago. 3 Standing at the very intersection of East and West, Helsinki has a fast-growing metropolitan area. Its appetite for innovation, enviable education system, entrepreneurial spirit, and success in international happiness indices make Helsinki a standard bearer for Finland and an example for cities worldwide. It is alive to culture and new technology, prosperous and fashionable, and yet at the same time focused on enduring values and a humane urban experience. A new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki is envisioned to develop a distinguished profile for organizing and presenting internationally significant exhibitions of artworks from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries while also specializing in Nordic art and architecture. An agent of change, it will explore the latest curatorial ideas, connect the public with artists, draw new audiences and tourists, and provide civic space where local residents can gather and socialize. Distinctive, sustainable, and built for the long term, the museum must fulfill the promise of its prominent waterfront site close to the city’s historic center. We believe that original, world-class architecture can speak across cultures while refreshing and enlivening the urban environment. In that spirit, we welcome ideas from established and emerging architects from Finland and around the world. We seek a visionary design for a memorable and engaging building that will resonate with the citizens of Helsinki, the people of Finland, and the many international visitors drawn to this exceptional city. Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Ritva Viljanen, Deputy Mayor, City of Helsinki 4 Map of South Harbor showing key landmarks in relation to the competition site 9 SENATE SQUARE 8 MARKET ESPLANADI SQUARE PARK 7 6 5 4 3 TAHITITORNIN VUORI PARK 2 1 KEY 1. Olympia Terminal Site 2. Pulkoco Observatory Landmark buildings 3. Military Museum Plaza public space 4. Museum of Finnish Architecture Green public space 5. Design Museum 6. Palace Hotel 7. Market Hall 8. Uspenski Cathedral 9. Helsinki Cathedral 5 Images from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 6 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The organization and its objectives Established in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been a visionary, risk-taking institution committed to the art of its time and of the future. Since then, the foundation has developed into an international constellation of museums—including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi—that connects ideas, people, and cultures on a global level with art at its center. The Guggenheim museums and international initiatives explore and promote the inspirational role of the arts and arts education, connecting cultures by providing platforms for learning and expression. The museums are informed as much by their affiliation with the foundation as they are by their local and regional cultural roots. Through the Guggenheim Foundation’s long history of engagement with architecture and design, the name Guggenheim has come to be synonymous with the interplay between contemporary art and architecture, realized in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fifth Avenue masterpiece, which opened in New York in 1959, and more recently in Frank Gehry’s Bilbao tour de force, which changed architecture at the end of the twentieth century and has influenced architectural thinking for the twenty-first century. Now, the foundation looks to Helsinki as the site of a possible new Guggenheim museum—one that would serve as an exemplary museum of the twenty-first century and a symbol of this dynamic city. 7 Background Project rationale and supporters Following a detailed concept and development study conducted during 2011, presented in 2012, and revised in 2013 for a new Guggenheim museum in Finland, the Guggenheim requested that the City of Helsinki reserve a prominent waterfront site near the historic center for an architectural competition and eventually the proposed museum. This study proposed an innovative, multidisciplinary museum of art and design, thoughtfully integrated in its Eteläsatama, or South Harbor, site. The museum would host internationally significant traveling exhibitions; generate its own exhibitions; and foreground Nordic heritage, Finnish design, and artistic inquiry. In this way the foundation’s curatorial and educational expertise and its constellation and connections would encourage a dynamic, synergistic exchange of ideas with Helsinki’s highly developed artistic community. Likewise, exhibitions organized in Helsinki would travel throughout the Guggenheim constellation, bringing Finnish art, design, and ideas to a broader international audience. The project would also provide civic space close to some of Helsinki’s great public buildings and its historic city center, to be enjoyed by local residents and visitors alike. The new Guggenheim Helsinki would be a long-term national investment with positive and far-reaching cultural, educational, and economic benefits for Finland as a whole. As Helsinki emerges as one of the world’s most intriguing tourist destinations, the project would enhance the city’s and Finland’s international profile. The proposal for a Guggenheim Helsinki formed the basis for the City of Helsinki’s approval to allocate the proposed museum site for an architectural competition. A decision on whether to proceed with the construction and development of the museum is expected to be brought to the City of Helsinki and the State of Finland for consideration following the conclusion of the competition and the public announcement of the winning design. To date, a broad base of enthusiasts, including members of the art, design, architecture, cultural, educational, business, political, and philanthropic communities, has expressed their support for the project. 8 Through a number of initiatives—including the public program series Guggenheim Helsinki Live, a dedicated microsite (www.guggenheimhki.fi), and social-media channels as well as meetings of Guggenheim leadership and key stakeholder groups in Helsinki—the Guggenheim Foundation has detailed the rationale and benefits of the project, explored
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