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    • 14.02.2019 Is This Tomorrow?
    • 13.06.2017 Architecture Room, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition
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  • Culture
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • Residential
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • Retail
    • Harrods World
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Office
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Education
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
  • Leisure
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • Transport
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
  • Public Space
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Landscape
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Masterplan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Exhibitions
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • Civic
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • Furniture
    • Wooden Bench
  • 2019
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
  • 2018
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
  • 2017
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
  • 2016
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
  • 2015
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • BHV, Paris
  • 2014
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 2013
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • 2012
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2011
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
  • 2010
    • Ravensbourne College, London
  • 2008
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • 2007
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • 2006
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
  • 2005
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
  • 2004
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • 2003
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • 2002
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • 2001
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • 1999
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Built
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Ongoing
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Private House, Hove
    • Harrods World
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
  • Others
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
  • < 1,000 m²
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Private House, Hove
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • 1,000 - 5,000 m²
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
  • 5,000 - 10,000 m²
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 10,000 - 50,000 m²
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • > 50,000 m²
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • Europe
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Middle East
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • North America
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Asia
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong

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Team
  • Architect - Farshid Moussavi Architecture
  • Structural - AKT II
  • Building Services - AECOM
  • Sustainability - AECOM
Project Data
Location
Helsinki, Finland
Client
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Date
2014
Area
7,000m²
Budget
€130m

Our proposal for the Guggenheim Helsinki is an infinitely adaptable structure that both accommodates the diversity of art - now and its indeterminate future - in its very structure and composition, and mediates between the museum as a place for encountering art and the city of Helsinki without making the two seamless, or becoming a ‘decorated shed’: an urban sculpture with a functioning museum within.

The museum is split into two distinct areas: a cruciform volume accommodating the galleries surrounded by a plinth housing the non-exhibition program to act as an interior urban living room. This grouping of exhibition and non-exhibition spaces enables the two to adopt different configurations as well as internal environments.

Each of the floors of the cruciform comprises five structurally independent moveable platforms that are designed to move up and down using ship lifts. This creates a flexible exhibition space, with changing physical volumes and the ability to manage the internal environments of those volumes separately to offer different levels of light, temperature and humidity, and to easily adapt them for each new exhibition using only the optimum amount of energy.

To facilitate these changes, each platform is provided with a floor plenum that can link into the floor plenum of the adjacent platform. Internal comfort is managed by a variable volume displacement system. The air is tempered at roof plant and distributed through external membrane walls of the cruciform, supplied into spaces at low level and allowed to rise using its natural buoyancy by picking up heat generated internally, then collected back at roof for energy recovery. The combination of highly effective envelope and responsive, efficient internal systems will ensure low energy consumption. Displacing the platforms generates exhibition spaces of varying shapes and heights as well as ways of circulating through the museum. The platforms can be levelled with one another to generate large galleries or take up staggered relationships, thereby gaining views into and across each other. This matrix of possibilities provides the museum with curatorial flexibility and turns it into a laboratory for art. The platforms which can carry a minimum of 15KN/m2 are likely to encourage more artists to explore weight as a subject; the diagonal spaces that can be generated as a result of the split floors are bound to encourage artists to explore oblique practices; as the galleries can also become unconventionally short, the museum can also nurture tiny scale art that usually gets lost in a typical gallery.

The counter weights for lifting the exhibition platforms are exposed on the exterior walls of the cruciform volume and clad in mirror stainless steel. As the gallery floors are moved for each exhibition, the counter weights move too. The different faces of the cruciform will therefore absorb reflections of the water, the city fabric or the sky and they will change over time based on the inside configurations. The presence of the museum in the city will therefore be ever-changing and a co-production between the exhibition configurations within and the city environment outside.

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