LANTERN and Helsinki are engaged in an intense relationship. The museum stages a series of spatial situations where civic life unfolds. It is a destination on a choreographed journey from the communal to the individual experience of art.
The structure is composed of: the Living Room, set firmly on the ground, the Art Hall, cantilevered above, and the Lift-off Room, joining the two.

The Living Room is an extension of the city floor, a hollowed-out pavement housing the communal program of the museum.

The Lift-off Room envelops a slow-moving hydraulic platform that links the Living Room to the Art Hall. This mechanical ready-made terminates at the belly of the Art Hall from where a gentle ramp leads upward to the main exhibition floor.

The Art Hall is a grand exhibition chamber with adjoining, more intimately proportioned, galleries. This brass-clad volume assumes an iconic value at its distinctive maritime location and resonates with the cityscape of Helsinki.