Winners of the tender for Museum Quarter announced – 17 pictures

On the 19th of December, the international professional jury has chosen the architects that will work on the new museum buildings of Budapest City Park. The winners overtook some five thousand contestants, the works of whom had all been handed in anonimously. The new architect of the Museum of Ethnography will be the French Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes, the House of Hungarian Music will be designed by the Japanese Sou Fujimoto Architects, while PhotoMuseum Budapest and the Hugarian Mueum of Architecture will be constructed by KÖZTI Architects & Engineers, a Hungarian firm writes MTI.

The tender for the biggest museum development project of Europe had been announced in February, 2014, and the buildings will be finished by 2018 according to plan. From the 470 plans that took part in the competition, only 17 were selected for the second round of the elimination. The jury – consisting of Hungarian and foreign professionals from the field of architecture and museum related organisations – selected the best visualizations for the five Hungarian museum buildings.

As the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts informed MTI, there had been no contestant that could fulfill all the requirements for the tender announced for New National Gallery-Ludwig Museum, therefore the museum will create a new round of selection where only invited creators’ works will be reviewed. This contest will end in 2015, April.

The jury was supported by a group of experts in the selection process, in order to evaluate the works according to the demands of five aspects: the quality of the project, technology and functional concept, sustaiability, public conversation (whether the new building will fit in its environment, Budapest City Park), and the expenditures.