MUSEUMS FOR THE CITY PARK IN BUDAPEST

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and the Városliget Zrt (City Park), property of the Hungarian State, announce four open, international, two-stage architecture competitions for the design of museum buildings within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project on the territory of the City Park Budapest.

Following the construction of the new buildings, the complete renewal of the green area of the City Park, and the renovation of the existing institutions, Liget Budapest will become one of Budapest’s leading tourist and cultural destinations and a unique family park renowned across Europe.

The four competitions:

• NEW SHARED BUILDING OF THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY AND LUDWIG MUSEUM – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
• NEW BUILDING OF THE MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY
• NEW BUILDING COMPLEX OF THE HUNGARIAN MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE FOTOMUZEUM, CONSISTING OF TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS
• NEW BUILDING OF THE HOUSE OF HUNGARIAN MUSIC

The four competitions will take place based on a common, identical system of rules and with the participation of the same jury, and according to the same evaluation system.

The total prize money of the competition is 870,000 EUR

JURY

• Chairman – László Baán, governmental commissioner, director, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
• Co-chairman – Wim Pijbes, director, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, architect
• Paula Cadima, professor at AA London School of Architecture, architect
• György Fekete, president, Hungarian Academy of Arts, interior designer Sándor Finta, Chief Architect of Budapest
• Edwin Heathcote, architecture critic, Financial Times, architect
• Henri Loyrette, member of Conseil d'État (France), former director, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Ervin Nagy, Chief Architect of the Hungarian State
• László György Sáros, president, Association of Hungarian Architects, architect
• Martha Thorne, executive director, Pritzker Architecture Prize, architect Nominations for the UIA Representative and alternate juror are in progress.

PRINCIPLE DATES OF THE COMPETITION

• Registration and Submission deadline, Stage 1: 27 May 2014
• Invitation to participate in the Second Stage: 8 July 2014

PARTICIPATION

English is the working language of the competition.

There is no registration fee.

Information, registration:

• http://www.ligetbudapest.org
• office@ligetbudapest.org

In compliance with UNESCO-UIA regulations, the competition has received the approval of the UIA.