Shortlisted Designs for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art

The competition was launched in 2015 for a the new Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, a €30 million museum building that would become "a cultural and arts center of interregional as well as national significance." Twenty-five architects were invited in the first stage of the competition and the jury* selected the seven finalists. The jury met on the 6th and 7th of June, so the winner should be announced later in the month.

The seven finalists:

• Adjaye Associates (UK) and AB3D
• Caruso St John Architects (UK) and Arhitektu birojs Jaunromāns un Ābele
• Henning Larsen Architects (Denmark) and MARK arhitekti
• Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (Finland) and MADE arhitekti
• Neutelings Riedijk Architects (Netherlands) and Brigita Bula arhitekte
• Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany) and Arhitekts Ingurds Lazdiņš
• wHY (US), OUTOFBOX Architecture and ALPS

Images of the finalists are below, but click on the links above to see more of their designs on the Malcolm Reading competition website.

*The jury: David Bickle, (chair), Director of Design, Exhibitions and FuturePlan, Victoria and Albert Museum; Uldis Balodis, Architect, representing the Ministry of Culture;Gianni Botsford, Director & Head of Design, Gianni Botsford Architects; Jānis Dripe, Architect, representing the Ministry of Culture; Reinier de Graaf, Partner, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and Director of AMO (OMA’s think-tank); Luke Jerram, Visual artist and director of Luke Jerram Ltd; Ieva Valtere, Executive Director, Pillar Management, SIA; Elīna Vikmane, Board Member, Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation.