Guggenheim Helsinki Now: Six Finalist Designs Unveiled, on view at Kunsthalle Helsinki this spring, marks the second phase of the embattled Guggenheim Helsinki design competition. The exhibition, following the announcement this December that a whopping 1,715 design submissions had been whittled down to six, highlights fully-developed proposals by the firms AGPS Architecture Ltd., Asif Khan Ltd., Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050, Moreau Kusunoki Architect, and SMAR Architecture Studio. The show presents the resulting renderings and models, unmarked to preserve the anonymity mandated by Finnish law, to the 11-person jury that includes architects Jeanne Gang and Mark Wigley, and Helsinki City Planning director Mikko Aho.
As the jurors deliberate on each proposal’s merits, the exhibition takes on the dual role of addressing the Finnish public’s skepticism of a Guggenheim franchise arriving on their waterfront.
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