The Lost Shtetl museum in Lithuania nominated for Arkkitehtuurin Finlandia award
The Lost Shtetl museum in the Lithuanian town of Šeduva has been shortlisted among four candidates for Finland’s Arkkitehtuurin Finlandia architecture award. It is competing alongside the Muurarimestari residential building in Helsinki, the Kuusijärvi smoke saunas in Vantaa and the SKiB campus in Pori, YLE News reports.
The winner will be selected by European studies researcher Timo Miettinen and announced on October 5. The Lost Shtetl is a private museum that tells the story of Šeduva’s Jewish community, which was destroyed during the Holocaust in 1941.
Museum in Šeduva
The Lost Shtetl’s lead designer was Rainer Mahlamäki. Architects Ilkka Syrjäkari, Owen Lambert, Panu Härmävaara and Jukka Savolainen from the Lahdelma & Mahlamäki bureau also worked on the project.
The preliminary jury noted that the museum’s interior architecture and spatial structure respond precisely and delicately to its subject matter and narrative method. Mahlamäki previously won the first-ever Arkkitehtuurin Finlandia award for the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which opened to visitors in 2013.
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Other candidates
The Muurarimestari residential building in Helsinki’s Oulunkylä district has gravity ventilation and is built of solid brick. The preliminary jury described it as a restrained but high-quality residential building with carefully, durably and aesthetically designed spaces. The project was developed by the Avarrus-arkkitehdit bureau.
The new smoke saunas and changing rooms at Lake Kuusijärvi in Vantaa feature dark wooden facades and hipped roofs covered with vegetation. The preliminary jury highlighted the complex’s careful work with materials and scale, as well as its timeless atmosphere. Mer-arkkitehdit and Arkkitehtuuri- ja muotoilutoimisto Talli worked on the project.
The SKiB campus in Pori, designed by the JKMM bureau, combines a thoroughly renovated 1960s brick school, the 1930s Rosa Huset building and the new Fiini cultural centre building. Fiini houses a library and a café overlooking a playground.
