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Finalists
International Architectural Design Competition
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Winnipeg, Canada

Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc. has announced the three architectural firms selected by the Architectural Review Committee in Stage 3 of the International Architectural Design Competition.

The three firms are:
Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada
Antoine Predock Architect USA
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada

"The three finalists clearly possessed a vision that resonated with the Architectural Review Committee."
Gail Asper
Architectural Review Committee

Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada

"The Canadian Museum for Human Rights creates a monumental iconic presence through the idea of the museum as urban space and its integration within the landscape. Its unitary form, encompassing skeletal totemic elements of steel and glass, creates an evocative landmark of grandeur for this monument of the 21st century.
The concepts of connection to other societies and the bridging of divisions and disparities are found in the architecture of the museum; a triangular figure transpierced by visual axes linking the park to the city through the museum. The roof of the building is a monumental inclined plane, taking root below the ground plane to the east and projecting itself westerly towards the sky, which passes over the site, mediating the park spaces around it."
Dan Hanganu Architects

Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Antoine Predock Architect USA

Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Antoine Predock Architect USA

"Our proposal for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is an optimistic recollection of the history of the struggle for human rights, with an intention to uplift, made legible in an architecture of dualities: light and darkness, ephemera and stone, gravity and weightlessness, reflection and solidity, earth and sky. The massing, the spaces within, and its materials reinforce the Museum as the embodiment of a universal humanitarian consciousness, necessarily the vessel of knowledge and history charged with hope. Rooted in humanity, the architecture renders palpable the communal and universal struggle for human rights."
Antoine Predock

Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada

Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada

"The Canadian Museum for Human Rights should address universal expectations while solidly grounding itself in the local environment. The Museum's enclosure is designed as an articulation of Canadian environment. It is luminous, translucent and brilliant, evocative of ice and snow. Through layers of transparent, translucent, white, and mirrored glass, the membrane is dematerialized, changing as one moves through and around the museum. This relationship with the context takes a special meaning at the end of the path through the exhibits, as the Museum culminates in a pure and open space, The Space of Hope, which opens to the surrounding Winnipeg landscape and towards the river. It is the purity of this luminous and minimal space, unoccupied by exhibits, that evokes possibility and hope, necessary after the intense content of the Museum."
Saucier + Perrotte

The vision of The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to create a distinctive architecturally exceptional museum that will help to eliminate intolerance through recognition of human rights as the foundation for human equality, dignity and freedom world-wide.
It will be the largest human rights institution and centre for education in the world today.

The site is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city in the geographic centre of Canada. The land on which the project will be located is an historic place at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers at the Forks.

The building program is estimated at 240,000 square feet (22,300 gross square meters) with the Tower of Hope as a distinctive and additional element of the project.

The museum is a joint project of Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc ,
the Forks North Portage Partnership, the Government of Canada, the
Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Antoine Predock Architect USA
Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada

May 24, 2004

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		Finalists International Architectural Design Competition Canadian Museum for Human Rights Winnipeg, Canada Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc. has announced the three architectural firms selected by the Architectural Review Committee in Stage 3 of the International Architectural Design Competition. The three firms are: Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada Antoine Predock Architect USA Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada "The three finalists clearly possessed a vision that resonated with the Architectural Review Committee." Gail Asper Architectural Review Committee Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada "The Canadian Museum for Human Rights creates a monumental iconic presence through the idea of the museum as urban space and its integration within the landscape. Its unitary form, encompassing skeletal totemic elements of steel and glass, creates an evocative landmark of grandeur for this monument of the 21st century. The concepts of connection to other societies and the bridging of divisions and disparities are found in the architecture of the museum; a triangular figure transpierced by visual axes linking the park to the city through the museum. The roof of the building is a monumental inclined plane, taking root below the ground plane to the east and projecting itself westerly towards the sky, which passes over the site, mediating the park spaces around it." Dan Hanganu Architects Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Antoine Predock Architect USA Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Antoine Predock Architect USA "Our proposal for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is an optimistic recollection of the history of the struggle for human rights, with an intention to uplift, made legible in an architecture of dualities: light and darkness, ephemera and stone, gravity and weightlessness, reflection and solidity, earth and sky. The massing, the spaces within, and its materials reinforce the Museum as the embodiment of a universal humanitarian consciousness, necessarily the vessel of knowledge and history charged with hope. Rooted in humanity, the architecture renders palpable the communal and universal struggle for human rights." Antoine Predock Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada Image courtesy Canadian Museum for Human Rights Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada "The Canadian Museum for Human Rights should address universal expectations while solidly grounding itself in the local environment. The Museum's enclosure is designed as an articulation of Canadian environment. It is luminous, translucent and brilliant, evocative of ice and snow. Through layers of transparent, translucent, white, and mirrored glass, the membrane is dematerialized, changing as one moves through and around the museum. This relationship with the context takes a special meaning at the end of the path through the exhibits, as the Museum culminates in a pure and open space, The Space of Hope, which opens to the surrounding Winnipeg landscape and towards the river. It is the purity of this luminous and minimal space, unoccupied by exhibits, that evokes possibility and hope, necessary after the intense content of the Museum." Saucier + Perrotte The vision of The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to create a distinctive architecturally exceptional museum that will help to eliminate intolerance through recognition of human rights as the foundation for human equality, dignity and freedom world-wide. It will be the largest human rights institution and centre for education in the world today. The site is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city in the geographic centre of Canada. The land on which the project will be located is an historic place at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers at the Forks. The building program is estimated at 240,000 square feet (22,300 gross square meters) with the Tower of Hope as a distinctive and additional element of the project. The museum is a joint project of Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc , the Forks North Portage Partnership, the Government of Canada, the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg. Canadian Museum for Human Rights Antoine Predock Architect USA Dan Hanganu Architects & The Arcop Group Canada Saucier + Perrotte Architectes Canada May 24, 2004 Antoine Predock arcspace features