The controversy surrounding the Guggenheim Helsinki has made the project a hot topic in recent years. While the large response to the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition is already widely known, is a new Guggenheim Museum truly what Helsinki needs? This is the burning question of The Next Helsinki counter-competition organizers, who describe the Guggenheim franchise as "the cultural equivalent of Starbucks". Organized by Checkpoint Helsinki, Terreform and G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction), architects, designers, urbanists, and environmentalists worldwide submitted their alternative ideas on how the site can be transformed to best meet Helsinki's cultural, spatial, and sustainability needs.
The call for ideas drew in 217 international entries from 40 countries on five continents, according to architect Michael Sorkin, who chaired the jury. In the end, the jury shortlisted eight entries they deemed as outstanding ideas -- which are not necessarily refined and final proposals. (Proposals marked with their submission numbers).
#14 Parc art Helsinki by Pedro Carrasco Zanini Sánchez and Lucía Gutierrez Vazquez
#38 Helsinki Polybrids by Thomas Kong and Susan Seah
#59 Museum of the Welfare State by Marco Giovannone
#76 MUUSA by draftworks*architects - design team: Christos Papastergiou, Christiana Ioannou
#126 Landscaped Dock by Mathilde Lull and François Perrier
#154 Visions for Helsinki by Milja Hartikainen
#189 Helsinki Iňač by Tomáš Boroš. Consultant: doc. Ing. Arch. Juraj Koban
#191 Baltic Tale of Nothingness by Constantinos Marcou and Costas Nicolaou. External supportive member: Stavros Marcou
Find more competition entries here.
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who describe the Guggenheim franchise as "the cultural equivalent of Starbucks".
Cracks in the foundation of globalism?
Oh man. Marco Giovannone's social commentary is excellent. Searing.
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