Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MHKA)
The invitation to participate in the design competition for the MHK A, the museum of contemporary art in Antwerp, was for our team both an honour and an exceptional opportunity to radically test our ideas about sustainability on the scale of a large cultural institution. We took this opportunity to design a building that is a low tech, low carbon, and low maintenance; reimagines the links between art and ecology; and explores how we could bring a pervasive publicness to the museum, making it truly a part of the city. Programmatically the museum consists of a public base, which functions as a covered agora, and an exhibition tower. A key feature of our proposal is how the publicness of the plinth is pulled up all the way to the top of the tower, through a series of highly legible and inclusive garden spaces, accessible for anyone who wishes to visit the building, and not exclusively for those who pay to visit an exhibition.
- Client: Flemish Government
- Location: Antwerp
- Year: 2025
- Programme: Art Museum
- Status: Competition finalist
- Team: Feilden Fowles, Pieter Bedaux, Inside Outside, Filippo Bolognese Images
