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The Guggenheim Foundation has launched its first ever international design contest to select an architect for its latest museum in Helsinki
The two-stage contest is being run by Malcolm Reading Consultants and is supported by the City of Helsinki, the State of Finland, and the Finnish Association of Architects.
Submissions to the anonymous first stage will be judged on architectural design, relationship to the site, sustainability and feasibility.
An online exhibition will feature all stage one submissions with special prominence given to 30 schemes rated highest by the judges.
Six shortlisted teams will then be announced in November and given until March 2015 to work up designs for a prominent plot in the city's South Harbour.
The winner - set to be announced in June 2015 - will take home £80,000 and five runner-ups will receive £45,000...