The new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki has been designed to be a new important landmark for the town. A building form that fits perfectly in the skyline of the city as well as in the urban grid, creating new high quality public spaces and new pedestrian routes that facilitate the movement of the citizens around the area. The new museum is well connected not only with the town center in the northern part with a new public square but also with the existing museums and hill on the west side of the site.
A 6meter slab serves as the base for the exhibition volumes as well as the formation of an open mostly covered museum plaza and sculpture garden. Permeability, flexibility and fluidity of the space are incorporated in this design with the right openings passages and connections both horizontally and vertically.
With a clever photovoltaic system that illuminates during the night and a though out the day use of the building the New Guggenheim museum is an active place well integrated in its context.
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