42 finalists for the competition to realise the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum
Press release from 06/16/2016
Competition documents to be sent out soon - Grütters: Design must be convincing in terms of urban planning and function - Parzinger: A lot of creativity and expertise for art - Submissions in mid-September
The realisation competition for the planned Museum of the 20th Century of the National Gallery at Berlin's Kulturforum has entered the final round. A total of 42 international teams of architects and landscape architects have been selected for the final. The finalists are made up of the ten winners of the ideas competition, 13 invited offices and 19 teams that qualified in the competition. They will receive the competition documents in June. The offices have until mid-September to submit their plans and models. The jury will meet at the end of October. The subject of the competition is the architectural design of a museum building for 20th century art as well as the open space planning of the immediate surroundings of the building.
Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters explained: "We have been able to attract really high-calibre architectural firms for this challenging construction task. These are the best prerequisites for a museum design that is convincing in terms of urban planning and function and can hold its own among the solitary buildings by Scharoun, Stüler and Mies van der Rohe. The great interest in the project shows that it is an attractive challenge for any renowned office to build in this neighbourhood. We expect exciting and bold designs that dare to restructure the Kulturforum without jeopardising the existing ensemble."
According to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, "it must be possible to combine outstanding architectural and urban design with the requirements of a museum in the 21st century. I would like to see a building that makes a new statement at this location, but also has the necessary openness. We need a building without backsides, so to speak, to bind together what belongs together and to heal this disparate site. Today, however, the museum must also be a place for society, without art becoming a secondary consideration. On the contrary: the Nationalgalerie urgently needs this building, and we are delighted that there is a great deal of creativity and expertise for art among the finalists."
The finalists include the following offices:
- 3XN Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark with Henrik Jorgenson Landskab, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aires Mateus e Associados, Lisbon, Portugal with PROAP Lda, Lisbon
- Beatriz Alés + Elena Zaera, Castelló, Spain
- Arga16, Berlin, Germany with Anne Wex Berlin, Germany
- Barkow Leibinger GmbH, Berlin, Germany with Professor Gabriele Kiefer, Berlin, Germany
- BAROZZI / VEIGA GmbH, Barcelona, Spain with antón & ghiggi landschaft architektur GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany
- Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten, Berlin, Germany with capatti staubach Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin, Germany
- David Chipperfield Architects, Berlin, Germany with Wirtz International N.V., Schoten
- CHOE HACKH / NETTER ARCHITEKTEN, Frankfurt am Main, Germany with Park Design, Kejoo Park, Seoul, South Korea
- Christ & Gantenbein Architekten, Basel, Switzerland with Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Basel
- CUKROWICZ NACHBAUR ARCHITEKTEN ZT GMBH, Bregenz, Austria with Studio Vulkan, Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Zurich
- Pedro Domingos arquitectos unip. Ida + Pedro Matos Gameiro arquitecto Ida Lisbon, Portugal with Baldios arquitectos paisagistas, Ida Lisbon, Portugal
- Dost Architektur Schaffhausen, Switzerland with Bösch Landschaftsarchitektur Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- Max Dudler Architekt, Berlin, Germany with Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin
- Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo, Japan with Latz + Partner, Kranzberg, Germany
- gmp International GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Grüntuch Ernst Planungs-GmbH, Berlin, Germany with sinai Gesellschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten mbH, Berlin, Germany
- Zaha Hadid Limited (Zaha Hadid Architects), London, United Kingdom with GROSS. MAX. Ltd, Edinburgh, Great Britain
- HASCHER JEHLE Architektur, Hascher Jehle Planen und Beraten GmbH, Berlin, Germany with Weidinger Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin, Germany
- Heinle, Wischer und Partner, Freie Architekten Berlin, Germany with Prof. Heinz W. Hallmann Landschaftsarchitekt BDLA Aachen, Germany
- Herzog & De Meuron, Basel, Switzerland with Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich/Berlin
- Florian Hoogen Architekt BDA Mönchengladbach, Germany with h e r m a n n s landschaftsarchitektur / umweltplanung Schwalmtal, Germany
- LACATON & VASSAL ARCHITECTS, Paris, France with CYRILLE MARLIN, Pau, France
- Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark with SCHØNHERR A/S, Copenhagen
- MANGADO Y ASOCIADOS S.L., Pamplona, Spain with TOWNSHEND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS LIMITED, London, United Kingdom
- Josep Lluis Mateo - MAP Arquitectos, Barcelona, Spain with D'ici là paysages & territoires, Paris, France
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); Rotterdam, Netherlands with Inside Outside, Amsterdam
- Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, France with Agence Louis Benech, Paris, France
- REX Architecture PC, New York, USA with Marti-Baron+Miething, Paris, France
- Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten, Berlin, Germany with Gustafson Porter, London
- Schulz und Schulz Architekten GmbH, Leipzig, Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten, Berlin with POLA Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin, Germany
- Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / S A N A A, Tokyo, Japan with Bureau Bas Smets, Brussels, Belgium
- Shenzhen Huahui Design Co, Ltd, Nanshan (Shenzhen), China with Beijing Chuangyi Best Landscape Design Co Ltd, Beijing, China
- Snøhetta architects, Oslo, Norway
- SO - IL Ltd, New York, USA with Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Boston, USA
- Staab Architekten GmbH, Berlin, Germany with Levin Monsigny, Berlin
- TOPOTEK 1, Berlin, Germany and Pordenone, Italy with TOPOTEK 1 Berlin, Germany
- Emilio Tunon Arquitectos, Madrid, Spain, Tunon & Ruckstuhl Architekten GmbH SIA, Rüschlikon, Switzerland with Benavides Laperche, Madrid, Spain
- UNStudio, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wenzel+Wenzel Freie Architekten, Berlin, Germany with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl GmbH, Überlingen, Germany
- ARGE Weyell Zipse Architekten / Hörner Architekten Basel, Switzerland with James Melsom Landschaftsarchitekt BSLA, Basel, Switzerland
- Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop Co, Ltd, Yokohama, Japan, Holzer Kobler Architekturen Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Holzer Kobler Architekturen GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland with vetschpartner Landschaftsarchitekten AG, Zurich, Switzerland