Finland Times

The name of the finalists of six concepts designs for proposed Guggenheim museum was announced on Tuesday in Helsinki. Photo – Lehtikuva.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced on Tuesday the selection of six designers as finalists for a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki

The six finalists from a total of 1,715 anonymous submissions were selected by an independent 11-member jury, said the foundation in a release.

However, no Finnish submission is there among the finalists.

“The jury has chosen six deeply thoughtful design approaches, each of which opens extraordinary possibilities for a Guggenheim in Helsinki and asks us to imagine what a museum of the future can be,” said Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Director Richard Armstrong.

The finalists are AGPS Architecture Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland and Los Angeles, USA), Asif Khan Ltd (London, UK), Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (New York, USA; Barcelona, Spain; and Sydney, Australia), Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050 (Stuttgart, Germany), Moreau Kusunoki Architect (Paris, France), and SMAR Architecture Studio (Madrid, Spain and Western Australia).

As part of Stage Two of the competition, the six finalists will be invited to visit the site of the proposed museum in January 2015, said the release.