Contemporary Museum Competition, Wroclaw, Poland

The city of Wroclaw has announced an international competition for the architectural design of a contemporary art museum building. The Wroclaw Contemporary Museum will house an outstanding collection and will occupy a prime location at the heart of the city's historic Old Town. It aims to serve as an open and dynamic contemporary-art ecosystem instead of as a museum in the traditional sense of the word.

Category Project Competition
Type International, Project, Restricted, Single-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Museum
Country Wroclaw, Poland
RegDeadline 20 June 2008 GoogleCal iCal
10 September 2008 (Must be Received) GoogleCal
Eligibility Anyone who executed within the last 3 years before the competition announcement date at least one construction and implementation design of a public utility building of at least 2000 square metres (e.g. exhibition building, auditorium, culture promoting f

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Jury
Jürgen Mayer H., an architect, Berlin
Wacław Hryniewicz, an architect, Wrocław
Jarosław Broda, Director of the Culture Department of the Municipality of Wrocław
Piotr Fokczyński , an architect, City Architect, Wrocław
Krzysztof Ingarden, an architect, Kraków
Piotr Krajewski, Chairman of the Program Team, Wrocław
Andrzej Kubik, an architect, Provincial Conservation Officer, Wrocław
Stefan Kuryłowicz, an architect, Warszawa
Dorota Monkiewicz, Secretary of the Program Team, Warszawa

Prize
First Prize: PLN 200 000,00
Second Prize: PLN 100 000,00
Third Prize: PLN 50 000,00

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
A notification of the admission to the competition and an invitation to submit entries: 4 July 2008
Competition adjudication: 3 October 2008

Organiser
Municipality of Wroclaw

Official Website
http://www.muzeumwspolczesne.pl/index_en.html