Design Competition for the New Museum of Architecture and Design, Helsinki, Finland

The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, together with the Real Estate Company ADM, are launching a design competition with the goal of finding a feasible proposal for a world-class museum building that will house a new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki, Finland. In 2022 the City of Helsinki and the State of Finland established the Real Estate Company ADM to be responsible for organising the design competition and developing and delivering the new museum building. The company is partnering with the Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design to launch a competition that seeks an exceptional design solution for the New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki. The competition is arranged in collaboration with the City of Helsinki and the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA). The home of Finnish design and architecture should be a globally recognised institution.The new AD Museum will celebrate the past and future of Nordic design and architecture with a global ambition, in so doing repositioning both Helsinki as an architecture and design-driven city and Finland as a global pioneer of design and architecture. The new museum will be a forum for dialogue about how architecture and design can contribute to the complex challenges facing society today. A total of € 300,000-400,000 in prizes will be awarded to selected competition entrants. Each team that reaches Stage 2 of the competition will be awarded € 50,000 each. An instalment of € 30,000 will be paid at the beginning of Stage 2. The remaining € 20,000 will be paid upon receipt of a final proposal submitted by a design team and developed in accordance with the requirements of the competition. In addition to the awards of the Stage 2, the jury will distribute 3 prize positions at the end of the competition. The awards are: 1st prize 50,000€, 2nd prize 35,000€ and 3rd prize 25,000 € and 2 purchases, 20,000€ each. The jury may also award honorary mentions. The jury may, by unanimous decision, change the distribution of the prize sum in accordance with the competition rules of the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA). Real Estate Company ADM reserves the right to negotiate and conclude a service procurement agreement with the competition winner in accordance with the Finnish Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016) point 8 of subsection 2 of section 40. Should no agreement be reached with the competition winner, Real Estate Company ADM reserves the right to negotiate and conclude a service procurement agreement with the next best participant, and so on until a service procurement agreement is concluded with a participant. The competition is a Design contest in accordance with the Finnish Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016) section 54 and 55. For further details please refer to the Competition brief.