Barozzi Veiga wins the competition for a new museum in Caen
DATE
15.05.2026
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art has selected Barozzi Veiga to design its future museum in Caen, scheduled to open around 2030. The decision follows an invited competition involving eight international firms and marks a new step in the development of this cultural project, located on a six-acre site next to the Memorial and Bird Hill.
The museum is conceived with the aim of presenting to the public the works and objects gathered by the foundation since its creation in 2010. Rather than a simple exhibition container, the project aspires to become a place of culture, transmission, and encounter, open to diverse audiences and particularly attentive to younger generations.
Barozzi Veiga’s proposal is defined by the concept of an “inhabited atlas.” The building emerges from a gently contoured meadow, forming a low horizon of white walls from which several quiet towers rise. Surrounded by trees and water basins, the museum is organized through ground-level pavilions, each with its own character and a specific relationship with the landscape.
The evaluation committee highlighted the project’s integration into its surroundings, the restraint of its volumes, the organization of reception spaces, and the diversity of visitor routes and exhibition possibilities. The permeability between architecture and landscape was also emphasized, understanding the museum as a lively, welcoming space open to cultural exchange.
The selection reinforces the international trajectory of Barozzi Veiga, a studio founded in Barcelona in 2004 by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, who are also lecturers in the MArch programs. Their work, focused on cultural, civic, and educational buildings, is based on a precise reading of each site to create architecture capable of enduring over time and evoking emotion.
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