With the announcement of the competition for the Museum of the 20th Century being awarded, we are happy to present our proposal submitted for the first stage of the competition.
Guarnieri Architects' answer to the challenges of the site was to create open and accessible public spaces at ground level for the enjoyment of all visitors. The new volume above is simple in shape and although it has iconic quality it does not attempt to compete with the surrounding significant iconic building of the Philarmonie and the Nationalgalerie.
Within dense and historic urban context such us this one we think that the opportunity is to retain the open space as this becomes less and less as the city grows.
We like to call our project a “public landscape with a silent icon”.
