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Hometown Firm JKMM Wins Bid for New Helsinki Museum of Architecture and Design
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Architectural Record
A proposal by award-winning Helsinki firm JKMM has won a global design competition for the city’s new Museum of Architecture and Design.
JKMM was awarded roughly $70,400 in prize money, while the runners-up were bestowed lesser—but not insignificant—sums for their finalist proposals.
A major project currently underway for JKMM is an expansion of the National Museum of Finland, due to open in 2027.
It’s because another museum project planned for the same waterfront site, the Guggenheim Helsinki, was wildly contentious and ultimately scrapped.
A rejiggered plan was hatched in 2013, with a similarly high-profile international design competition kicking off in 2014; French-Japanese firm Moreau Kusonoki Architectes ultimately triumphed.
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