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Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum

Presented by Monika Žekaitė

BEGGINING

At the beggining The Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg intend to present the works from their collections in Europe in a new building. So they organize competition for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Three architects submitted their designs for the final competition: Zaha Hadid, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Daniel Libeskind. All of them presented theirs ideas for this museum.

MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS

MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS

Massimiliano Fuksas's design

DANIEL LIBESKIND

DANIEL LIBESKIND

Design submitted by Daniel Libeskind

ZAHA HADID

ARCHITECTS

ZADA HADID

Winning design by Zaha Hadid

ZADA HADID DESIGN

WINNER

Zaha Hadid, a Pritzker Prize winner, proposed a "mystical object, hovering over spindled artificial landscape strip". She chose to draw a contrast between the building's forms and the vertical forms of nearby skyscrapers. The top of the building reflects surroundings of the Vilnius city. Hadid asserted that "It is especially important today to acknowledge cultural buildings, that they have unique and special morphologies. Those buildings should make an impression on people, people should accept them."

DESIGN

The concept for the museum is based on the ideas of fluidity, velocity and lightness.

DESIGN

EXHIBITION

It was planned to house a permanent collection of avant-garde works, particularly by two Lithuanian artists who came to prominence in New York City: Jonas Mekas, a filmmaker who has specialised in ‘diarist cinema’ and who established the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and Jurgis (George) Maciunas (1931-1978), founder of the 1960s art movement Fluxus. Both men blurred distinctions between art and life.

ALSO...

ALSO...

The museum was also planned to present exhibitions of new media art and parts of the Anthology Film Archives, as well as pieces from the collections of the New York-based Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation and the St Petersburg-based State Hermitage Museum.

LOCATION

Occupying a large, public area near the banks of the Neris River, the museum would have been centrally located between the old and new centres of Vilnius. In contrast to nearby rectilinear skyscrapers, the museum would have stretched out horizontally, featuring curvilinear forms.

LOCATION

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