Final entries to the architecture and design museum competition are revealed
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Five developed proposals for Finland’s New Museum of Architecture and Design have been unveiled for a final round of public feedback. The winner will be announced in September 2025.
The public now has the opportunity to view the further developed finalist proposals of the design competition for the new Museum of Architecture and Design and to leave their comments via the City of Helsinki’s online platform. The five entries will be on display and open for comments until 31 July 2025, after which the public's feedback will be summarised and presented to the jury. The winner of the competition will be announced on 11 September 2025.
The anonymous proposals have been prepared during the final phase of the open international architectural competition to find a design for a new 10,050 sq m museum building that will be constructed on the Makasiiniranta waterfront, in Helsinki’s historically significant South Harbour district. The final proposals were submitted by 6 June 2025.
Future museum in historic city centre
Launched in April 2024, the competition attracted 624 submissions from around the world. The five finalists, City, Sky & Sea, Kumma, Moby, Tau, and Tyrsky, were announced in December 2024. The process of developing the proposals began in February 2025, following an opportunity for public feedback, which was communicated to the design teams alongside guidance from the jury and project team.
The central mission of the new museum will be democratising the tools of design, and the competition has been participatory from the outset: museum audiences and professionals from various disciplines have been widely consulted, with their insight shaping both the competition brief and the museum’s conceptual development. During the second stage, proposals have been assessed through a multidisciplinary lens. Beyond architecture and cityscape, the jury has considered perspectives related to urban culture, design education, and how to better serve groups with special needs.
The competition brief tasked participants with designing a museum that meets the urban and architectural demands of this historically important site while also delivering on the museum’s goals of being flexible, inclusive, and welcoming. The museum is set to open in 2030.
Explore the five finalist proposals through this link.
