News: Sou Fujimoto is 1 of three architects that have been selected to style buildings for a Hungarian museum complex in Budapest’s City Park .

House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto Home of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto’s design for the Property of Hungarian Music was chosen by way of an anonymous competitors approach to turn out to be 1 of 5 new museums planned for a park just outside Budapest’s city centre.


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The scheme is component of the Liget Budapest project – one of Europe’s largest museum developments.

House-of-Hungarian-Music-by-Sou-Fujimoto_dezeen_468_0 House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto

The Japanese architect proposes a glass-walled constructing sheltered beneath a white canopy, reminiscent of a giant mushroom. Round openings will create lightwells, which will in some locations continue via the floors.

House-of-Hungarian-Music-by-Sou-Fujimoto_dezeen_468_1 Property of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto

The music museum will occupy the site of the former Hungexpo Offices that have been scheduled for demolition.

Sou Fujimoto to create House of Hungarian Music House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto

Other projects for the complex will create new properties for the Hungarian Museum of Photography – which will become FotoMuzeum Budapest – and the Hungarian Museum of Architecture, both of which will be made by Hungarian firm KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers.

Hungarian Mueum of Architecture by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers Hungarian Mueum of Architecture by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers

French studio Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes has also been chosen to style the Museum of Ethnography. These three buildings will all be situated on Fifty-sixers’ Square.

Hungarian Mueum of Architecture by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers Hungarian Mueum of Architecture by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers

The complicated will be completed by the New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum, but no architect has been named for this developing as the jury – chaired by Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes and Pritzker Prize managing director Martha Thorne – couldn’t locate a appropriate candidate amongst the 80 submissions. A new competition has now been announced.

FotoMuzeum Budapest by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers FotoMuzeum Budapest by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers

Each of the proposed buildings is anticipated to demonstrate sustainable building techniques, whilst also fitting in with the all-natural and constructed heritage of the historic park, which claims to have been the world’s initial public park.

FotoMuzeum Budapest by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers FotoMuzeum Budapest by KÖZTI Architects &amp Engineers

Known as the Liget Budapest Project, the improvement is spearheaded by The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest and the Városliget Zrt.

Museum of Ethnography by Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes Museum of Ethnography by Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes

“Thanks to this style competitors, the museums to be constructed in the City Park will produce a harmonious dialogue with the park and its built environment, representing outstanding architectural worth for Budapest and all of Hungary, although catering to the collections and the guests with their 21st-century functional solutions at a planet normal,” mentioned László Baán, ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project.

Museum of Ethnography by Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes Museum of Ethnography by Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes

Building of the £190 million development is expected to begin in 2016, with museums scheduled to open in March 2018. According to the organisers, the park’s greenery will be elevated by five per cent.

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