Paris-based architects Hiroko Kusunoki and Nicolas Moreau founded their eponymous husband-and-wife firm in 2011 and seemed to come out of nowhere when their design won the Helsinki Guggenheim competition last year. In addition to photo-quality renderings of a cluster of pavilions clad in charred timber, the architects presented Kusunoki’s mind-boggling, Richard Scarry–meets–Where’s Waldo drawings of the museum and the surrounding city in their competition entry.
Using fine-tipped black pens on white paper, one of Kusunoki’s flat-looking drawings of the Helsinki waterfront is not only a meticulous and exhaustive aerial view, it is also populated with rounded, miniature people. Some are walking dogs, one is teaching children on the grass, and another takes his bike across a bridge. Many have speech and thought bubbles above their heads, implying the collective hum of the city.
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