Helsinki Harbor's Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design names five shortlist teams
Five finalists have been named in the competition to create the first home for the Finnish Museum of Architecture andDesigninHelsinkis South Harbor area.The designers names will remain anonymous through this stage while entries are listed by their initial number and title. A total of 624 were submitted from across the world. The 13-member jury will grant each a 50,000 ($52,000) development fee and expects to come back with the final winner's announcement by September 2025.Beate Hlmebakk, jury panel member and partner at Manthey Kula in Oslo said: The five finalist projects represent different visions for an inviting and inspirational museum situated on one of Helsinkis most important sites. What these entries share is their potential to be buildings of extraordinary and lasting architectural quality. It is the jurys opinion that they all have distinct urban presence and exceptional spatial properties that allow the new museum of architecture and design to organize the ri...