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LAST RESULTS
1997
Eduardo Costantini, Argentinian collector of works of art of contemporary Latin-american artists, decided to build a Museum, open to the public, to house his private collections and exhibit temporarily the collections of other collectors. For the design of this building he launched an international architectural competition, open and anonymous, in a single stage.
Conform with the UNESCO/UIA Recommendation on international competitions, this competition received the approval of the International Union of Architects.
OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMME OF THE COMPETITION
The competition programme was for a preliminary project for a museum, of a total surface of some 4 200 m2, in Buenos Aires, in a sector featuring a number of buildings of a cultural and artistic nature and, notably, in the vicinity of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the National Library and the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires. The site on which the Museum will be built touches the Republic of Peru Place, the restructuring of which was to be taken into account in the treatment of the immediate surrounds and access points of the Museum, thus becoming a prestigeous element of the urban heritage of Buenos Aires.
The criteria for selection were as follows: the functional quality and specificity of the building; its symbolic significance; the suitability of the exhibition rooms for the works of art; the conformity of the building to the security standards; the quality of the services offered; the consideration of the general economics of the project and its maintenance; the performance of an intelligent system of management of the different services.
JURY
The jury, made up of the following architects: Mrs. Sara Topelson de Grinberg (Mexico), UIA President, Mario Botta (Switzerland), Kenneth Frampton (USA), Sir Norman Foster (United Kingdom), Joseph Kleihues (Germany), Enric Miralles (Spain), Terence Riley (USA), Cesar Pelli (Argentina-USA), Bernardo Dujovne (Argentina), Jose Ignacio Miguens (Argentina) and personalities: Eduardo Costantini (Argentina), promotor of the competition, Jorge Glusberg (Argentina), Director of the competition organising committee, met from 4 to 8 October 1997. The jury examined 450 projects from 45 countries throughout the world.
WINNERS
Three prizes of 50 000, 25 000, and 10 000 US $ respectively were awarded as well as nine honourable mentions.
Mentions:
Helmut Jahn, Murphy and Jahn (USA)
Juan Carlos Sabato (Argentina)
Carlos Salvadores Navarro (Spain)
Robert Kahn (USA)
Tectoniques (France)
Eduardo L.P. Riesencampf de Almeida (Brazil)
Frederic Crespo Nomen (Spain)
Stephan Schneider (Germany)
Gustavo Bonevardi, John Bennett, Anna Etkin (Argentina - USA)
Informations :
Comision del Concurso Museo Costantini
Madero 900, piso 28
1300 Capital Federal (Buenos Aires)
Argentina
T. : (54.1) 318 80 00 - F.(54 .1) 318 80 01