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The Lost Shtetl Jewish history museum is shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2026

The shortlist for the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2026 has been announced. The candidates are the Helsingin Muurarimestari residential building in Helsinki, the public smoke saunas at Lake Kuusijärvi in Vantaa, the Swedish Cultural Foundations SKiB campus in Pori and the Lost Shtetl Jewish history museum in Lithuania. This year’s winner will be chosen by Timo Miettinen, a prominent academic specialising in European philosophy and politics, with the announcement due on Monday, 5 October.

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2 months ago

Can Architecture Preserve A Lost Memory?

Some buildings protect objects.

This one protects a vanished world.

The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum stands where an entire community once lived before it disappeared in 1941. Rather than recreating the village literally, the architects imagined it through a cluster of abstract house-like forms—a quiet reminder of homes, streets, and lives that can no longer be rebuilt.

The architecture speaks through restraint.

Natural light enters gently through ridge skylights, while aluminum façades shift with the changing sky, sometimes bright, sometimes almost invisible. The building never dominates the landscape. Instead, it becomes part of it, allowing memory to remain the focus.

Surrounding the museum, a memorial park retraces the final journey taken by the people of Šeduva, transforming the act of walking into an act of remembrance.

Some architecture is designed to impress.

The most meaningful architecture is designed so we never forget.

The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum
Šeduva, Lithuania
2025

Architecture: @lmarchitects_fi
Photography: @kuviophoto

Presskit available @bampr.co

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3 months ago

The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum preserva la memoria de una comunidad desaparecida en 1941 a través de una arquitectura precisa y atemporal. Su composición de volúmenes abstractos, la entrada controlada de luz natural y una envolvente de aluminio marino reciclable construyen una experiencia que dialoga con el paisaje y la historia del lugar. 🏛️🌿

Proyecto de gran escala desarrollado mediante una colaboración internacional entre estudios de arquitectura, paisaje, museografía e ingeniería.

#Architecture #MuseumDesign #Pritzker by @lmarchitects_fi

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4 months ago

| 로스트 슈테틀 유대인 박물관: 상실의 슬픔을 기억하는 품위의 장소

비극적 역사를 기록하는 기념 건축물은 대개 거칠고 무거운 재료로 슬픔을 드러냅니다. 반면 라델마 앤 마흘라마키 건축사사무소가 설계한 리투아니아 로스트 슈테틀 유대인 박물관은 다른 방식을 취합니다. 건축가는 홀로코스트의 공포를 전면에 내세우지 않습니다. 박공지붕을 적용한 추상적 볼륨들로 사라진 전통 마을 슈테틀의 정경을 담담하게 재현하며 평화와 추모의 가치를 전달합니다.

외관을 감싼 해양 등급 알루미늄과 규암석은 주변 환경과 조응하며 시간에 따라 빛을 다르게 반사합니다. 관람객은 내부에서 '홀로코스트의 협곡'으로 명명한 어두운 전시 공간을 지나 마침내 들판과 공동묘지를 향해 탁 트인 '희망의 협곡'에 도달합니다. 이 건축물은 상실의 기록에 머무르지 않고 미래의 희망을 함께 조명하며 역사를 기억하는 정교한 공간적 해법을 제시합니다.

📃 전문은 프로필 링크를 확인해 주세요!

📐디자인. 라델마 앤 마흘라마키 아키텍츠 (@lmarchitects_fi)
👷책임 건축가. 일마리 라델마 Ilmari Lahdelma, 라이너 마흘라마키 Rainer Mahlamäki
🌳조경. 에네아 조경 건축 (@enealandscapearchitecture)
📸사진. Andrew Lee, Aiste Rakauskaite (@aiste.rakauskaite), Kuvatoimisto (@kuviophoto)
📍리투아니아 셰두바 / Šeduva, Lithuania

🧐더 많은 건축 인사이트가 궁금하다면 프로필 링크를 확인해주세요! taken in Lithuania by @lmarchitects_fi

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4 months ago

Construction work on the educational building for the Tikkurila Competence Campus, designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects, is set to begin in Vantaa, Finland.

The building wraps around an entire block, but thanks to the diverse facade materials and the varying rhythm of the building mass, it has a light and multifaceted appearance.

Read more at lma.fi.

#architecture taken in Tikkurila, Vantaa by @lmarchitects_fi

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6 months ago

Volumetric cluster — photo courtesy @kuviophoto + @aiste.rakauskaite + Andrew Lee / architect: @lmarchitects_fi / project: The Lost Shtetl Museum stands in Šeduva as a quiet yet powerful memorial to vanished Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

Composed of a cluster of white gabled volumes, the building evokes the image of a traditional shtetl—reinterpreted through a contemporary architectural language. Rather than reconstructing history literally, the project abstracts memory into form, creating a spatial narrative rooted in absence, loss, and remembrance.

The restrained material palette and sculptural roofscape allow the museum to merge gently with the surrounding landscape, while the sequence of spaces guides visitors through an emotional journey between light and shadow, openness and enclosure.

Through its subtle geometry and symbolic composition, the museum transforms architecture into a vessel of collective memory—where history is not only displayed, but deeply experienced.

#Museum #Memorial #Lithuania #Šeduva #ContemporaryArchitecture taken in Šeduva by @lmarchitects_fi

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7 months ago

Facades of the Lost Shtetl Museum are made of marine aluminium sheets, reminiscent of wooden shingles, arranged to form a scale-like surface that lives and reflects light according to the cycle of the day and the seasons. The material also recalls the weathered rural buildings typical of the Lithuanian countryside. The directions of the roof ridges and their varying steepness create a deliberate, sculptural randomness.
(Photos by @aiste.rakauskaite & @kuviophoto) taken in Lost Shtetl Museum by @lmarchitects_fi

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9 months ago

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects wish everyone a happy and hopeful festive season.

Canyon of Hope at the Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum
Photo: @kuviophoto taken in Lost Shtetl Museum by @lmarchitects_fi

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10 months ago

The concept behind The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum is based on a destroyed village of Šeduva and its culture, which vanished overnight in August 1941. 664 Jews from the village were executed in the nearby forests. Along with human lives, Šeduva’s long and rich history was also lost. The museum was built to commemorate the lost lives and culture, which represented not only Jewish but also European culture. (Photos by @kuviophoto) taken in Lost Shtetl Museum by @lmarchitects_fi

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10 months ago

After nine years of work, the Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum opens today. #thelostshtetl #architecture taken in Lost Shtetl Museum by @lmarchitects_fi

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a year ago

Architecture and Design Museum, Helsinki
Competition 2nd prize

Proud to be a local partner for @cossement_cardoso by @lmarchitects_fi

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a year ago

The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania is nearing completion and is set to open in September. by @lmarchitects_fi

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