MALI Design Competition - New Contemporary Art Wing

Result

The jury has selected the architects Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos and LLAMA Urban Design as the winners of the competition, beating out entries from other top architects including Zaha Hadid Architects and Alberto Campo Baeza.

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Overview

Our goal is to establish the MALI as a new civic and cultural platform in the city, as well as a referent for future competitions regarding the design of public spaces in Lima.

Description
The Lima Art Museum (MALI) announces the launch of an open competition for the design of its new contemporary art wing. The project will include a library, gallery spaces, classrooms, workshops, a café, a public plaza, access to a future metro station, and a landscape proposal for the park where the museum is located. Our goal is to establish the MALI as a new civic and cultural platform in the city, as well as a referent for future competitions regarding the design of public spaces in Lima.
The MALI is a private, non-profit cultural organization devoted to the promotion of the visual arts in Peru. With over seventeen thousand works, it houses the only representative survey collection of Peruvian art in the country.
The museum recently renovated its permanent galleries, housed on the second floor of the historic Exposition Palace, where a selection of works from the permanent collection is exhibited. These galleries survey almost 3,000 years of history, from pre-Columbian textiles and pottery to mid-twentieth century painting. However, the museum’s contemporary art collection, numbering over a thousand works, is still largely kept in storage, making the design of a new wing all the more pressing.

Jury
Kristin Feireiss (Editor, writer and curator of design and architecture, the co-founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin)
Teodoro Fernández (a Chilean architect, the head architect of the Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho)
Guy Nordenson (a structural engineer and professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton University, the principal at Guy Nordenson and Associate)
Paulo Dam (a Peruvian architect and curator, an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Juan Carlos Verme (a private collector of contemporary art and an active participant in educational and cultural projects in Lima and Latin America, MALI’s current president)
Advisor: Chris Dercon (an art historian and a documentary filmmaker)

Prize
Three unranked finalists will receive 10,000 USD per team.
The total building cost for the project—i.e., the new wing, not the landscape proposal beyond the site—is estimated at 12 – 15M USD (excluding taxes). The architectural fee is 8% of total construction costs.

Entry Fee
None

Entries
A single digital 15 – 20 page document, A3 format

Timetable
Jury Meeting: July 4-5th, 2016
Finalists Announced: July 5th
Finalists’ Presentation: July 8th
Winner Announced: July 11th

Organizer
The Lima Art Museum (MALI)

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