Museum of the 20th Century: Participation competition for the realisation competition begins
Press release from 04/18/2016
Call for proposals published in the Official Journal of the European Union: We are looking for 15 teams of architects and landscape architects
The process for the new construction of the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum is entering the next round. The invitation to tender for the participation competition for the realisation competition has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Teams of architects and landscape architects have until 13 May 2016 to submit their applications. At least 15 office consortia can qualify to take part in the realisation competition. The architects must have won at least one prize for planning competitions in the field of architecture for comparable buildings with a gross floor area of at least 3,000 square metres in the past ten years or be able to provide a reference for completed planning services in the field of object planning for comparable buildings in the past ten years. The decisive factors for selection are design expertise, realisation experience and excellence. More information is now available on the competition website.
The field of participants for the realisation competition for the architectural design of a museum building for 20th century art is ultimately made up of three groups of candidates: The ten prizewinners from the ideas competition are seeded. In addition, there are 13 invited teams of architects and landscape architects and finally the winners of the participation competition.
In the Museum of 20th Century Art, the Nationalgalerie's internationally significant holdings of 20th century art and the Marx and Pietzsch collections, the Marzona Archive and works from the Museum of Prints and Drawings will be presented together for the first time. Together with the Neue Nationalgalerie, the new building will form a unit in terms of content and function. As reported, both buildings will be connected underground by showrooms. At the same time, the new building is to be understood as an independent building, with its own entrance, its own functional areas and its own identity. The target for the new building is a usable area of 14,700 square metres, of which 9,200 square metres can be used as exhibition space.