Results of the contest

The Liget Budapest Project has announced an international design competition for the new Museum of Ethnography building, to be located on the edge of the Városliget (City Park). Fifteen prominent international and Hungarian architect offices will participate in the restricted tender for the design of the new museum building, including for example the world famous Herzog & de Meuron, BIG, Bernard Tschumi Architects, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Rem Koolhaas’ Studio, called OMA. The results are expected to be announced in May 2016. According to plans, the new home of the Museum of Ethnography, meeting professional and visitor requirements at the highest standard, will open its doors on Ötvenhatosok Square in 2019, as part of the Liget Budapest Project, aimed at the comprehensive and complex renewal of Budapest’s City Park to become one of Europe’s new recreational and cultural centre.

1st prize: Napur Architect Kft. (leading architect: Marcel Ferencz DLA, fellow architects: György Détári DLA, István Ferencz DLA, Csaba Bodonyi DLA, Mihály Rudolf DLA, József Őrfi , Dávid Papp ; Exon 2000 Kft. (structure: László Szántó)

2nd prize: Sauerbruch Hutton

3rd prize: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Selection from the works of the other participants: