Held at the National Museum on Monday, September 17, the Ministry of Information and Culture and the US Embassy in Kabul announced the winners of their International Architectural Ideas Competition for the National Museum of Afghanistan. The Jury’s decision for the winning design submissions is based on the clarity of the architectural concept that responds effectively to the programmatic, functional, technical, economic and security requirements in the brief, and the architectural quality of the proposed design as a whole. This decision ultimately recognizes the distinguished architectural quality of the winning proposed design solution with the first prize given to AV62 Arquitectos. More images and information on the winning entries after the break.
This competition attracted the interest from architects, urban planners and designers from more than one hundred and forty countries after its official announcement in March 2012. Three hundred and forty eight firms from sixty three nations of the relevant fields applied to participate in the competition. Through a prequalification process one hundred and twenty five of the applying firms from forty seven nations were admitted to elaborate their architectural design ideas. By the deadline in June 2012, seventy two eligible design proposals from thirty one countries had been received and subsequently evaluated by the appointed Jury.
