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15/2/2024
City of Helsinki Announces Funding for New Museum of Architecture and Design – Design Competition to Commence in April
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4/10/2023
New company established to continue the missions of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum
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16/3/2023
New Museum of Architecture & Design in Helsinki receives donation from The Asahi Shimbun
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16/3/2023
Decisions on the funding of the New Museum to be made during 2023
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24/11/2022
‘Saaret’ Wins International Competition to Develop Makasiiniranta Shoreline
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14/11/2022
Advisory Group Appointed for the New Museum of Architecture & Design
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28/9/2022
Founding a New Institution: "What Is the River We Are Trying to Cross?"
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5/9/2022
Real Estate Company ADM Founded for the AD Museum’s Construction Project
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23/8/2022
Join the Conversation: New AD Museum and Open Design Professions
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David van der Leer will moderate a conversation with panelists Liza Chong, Joseph Grima, and Zeynep Falay von Flittner.
6/7/2022
What's up with the New Museum of Architecture and Design?
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4/7/2022
Future of South Harbour now open for comments
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8/6/2022
"Helsinki is ready for more" – international partner sees a ton of potential in the museum
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David van der Leer and Maria Budtz Sorensen of DVDL at the location for the future museum in Helsinki's South Harbour.
28/4/2022
Foundation for Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design established
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Foundation for Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design was established at the Helsinki City Hall.
17/3/2022
Four proposals selected for the second phase of the Makasiiniranta competition
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16/12/2021
Makasiiniranta’s international competition entries published
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Helsinki South Harbour area
10/11/2021
New visual identity gives shape to the plans of a new museum
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10/11/2021
Meet the project team
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10/11/2021
Breaking the records – interview with the chair of the steering group, Timo Laitinen
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10/11/2021
Towards a new museum – the histories of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum on display at the Design Museum in Helsinki
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10/5/2021
Project leader Kaarina Gould: Museums can play a significant role in public discussion
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8/4/2021
Exceptional financial basis raised for new architecture and design museum - at least 24 million euros of private funding
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24/3/2021
Next steps for planning a new museum for architecture and design
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Snowy Helsinki city viewed from the top
16.12.2021
Makasiiniranta’s international competition entries published
The competition entries of the international quality and concept competition for the Makasiiniranta area at the South Harbour are now available for viewing and comments on the Voice your opinion online service. Citizens and those interested in the development of the area are asked to give their views on how the entries would improve Makasiiniranta as a place of maritime recreation for all. Makasiininranta will also be the site for the new Architecture and Design Museum. The competition however does not include designing the new Architecture and Design Museum, but a separate architecture competition will be organised later.

The two-phase Makasiiniranta quality and concept competition launched in May 2021 aims to find a partner for the development and implementation of Makasiiniranta at South Harbour. Nine international competition groups have drawn up overall designs, in which the city centre and its services are extended to Makasiiniranta. In accordance with the goals of the competition, the Makasiiniranta area will be part of the pedestrian city centre and the seaside trail around the shores of Helsinki, and a location for the new Architecture and Design Museum.

Some of Finland’s largest and most international architects’ offices are involved in the competition as well as a few well-known international offices:

• Foster + Partners, Maanlumo and Ramboll with Hines Nordics

• HGR Property Partners, PES-Architects, VSU, WSP, Sweco

• Konsortium Gran, K2S Architecs, White Arkitekter, Ramboll, HTJ

• Merellinen Helsinki 2030, JKMM, Loci, Ramboll

• NCC Property Development Oy ja NCC Suomi Oy (NCC, Arkkitehdit Soini& Horto, AOR Arkkitehdit, MASU Planning, Destia, Ramboll Finland, SalsaConcept)

• Skanska CDF Oy ja Skanska TalonrakennusOy (Skanska Talonrakennus, Arkkitehtitoimisto ALA, SLA S/A, Sitowise

• South Harbour (NREP, SRV, Anttinen OivaArkkitehdit, Nomaji maisema-arkkitehdit, Sitowise)

• AALTO Development, LMA,Maisema-arkkitehtitoimisto NÄKYMÄ Oy, Sitowise

• Elävä Eteläsatama (Ålandsbanken,Arkkitehdit Tommila, Arkkitehdit Rudanko + Kankkunen, A-insinöörit, VSU)
Materials of nine competition entries on display in the Voice your opinion online service between 17.12.2021–16.1.2022
In the Makasiiniranta competition, nine competition entries for the first phase have been submitted under pseudonyms and they are publicly available for viewing and comments by all interested people in the Voice your opinion service. Comments and views on the competition entries can be submitted until 16 January 2022. A feedback summary will be made available to the jury for information and use in judging.
Top four will advance to the second phase
The jury will make its decision on the entries that will advance for the second phase in March 2022. The jury will select a maximum of four competitors, having submitted the best competition entries, for the second phase. In the first phase of the competition, the jury will focus in particular on the overall solution of the design and how the design idea fits to the landscape of the South Harbour and its values. In the evaluation, attention will also be paid to the cityscape-related quality of the designs, the functionality and feasibility of the concept, the quality of the pedestrian environment and urban space, and solutions that will promote the implementation of the Carbon-neutral Helsinki 2035 action plan. Another important thing to consider is the observance of the new Architecture and Design Museum, the Old Market Hall and the harbour building as components of the whole.

The selected competitors will compile more detailed entries by the end of June 2022 and the results of the competition will be announced in autumn 2022. Also in the second phase, the competition entries will be put on public display and made available for public commenting via the Voice your opinion service. The winning group will continue planning the area as partnership planning in collaboration with the city. The competition winner will also serve as the implementer of the plots to be formed on the basis of the competition entry. The City Council will later decide on the implementation agreement and approving the detailed plan created for the area.
The progress of the competition can be followed at makasiiniranta.hel.fi.  
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