Big-ticket firms vie for Budapest transport museum

The organisers of the design competition to create a new base for the Hungarian Museum of Transport have revealed a shortlist for the project that contains some of the world’s most famous practices.

Foster & Partners, David Chipperfield Architects, Caruso St John Architects, Diller Scofidio & Renfro and Amanda Levete Architects feature among the list of 15 bid teams vying to transform a 7-hectare former railway works site into the new centre.

They are joined by Perkins & Will, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, and Bjarke Ingels Group, as well as Hungarian practices KÖZTI Zrt, CÉH Zrt – which is partnering Fosters, 3H Építésziroda, and Építész Stúdió Kft.

The museum said 11 of the shortlisted firms had been invited to enter the competition, while a further four had been added following a call for expressions of interest last month that generated 90 valid applications.

博物馆总馆长Dávid Vitézy表示，布达佩斯北部维护仓库的部分改造项目将是欧洲最具雄心的棕地再生项目之一，“为建筑、城市发展、遗产保护和景观美化领域提供挑战”。2022年北京世界杯

Vitézy said the participation of world-famous international and renowned Hungarian professionals “guarantees that the jury will be able to select the winning designer out of the best talents”.

The competition jury is expected to announce a winner in February.