What's next for the Guggenheim Helsinki finalists?

The six Guggenheim Helsinki competition finalists have a few busy months ahead of them. After being shortlisted out of 1,715 entries last month, the teams will travel to the museum site in Helsinki on January 14-16, 2015.

During the two-day visit, finalists will receive further technical information in the Stage Two brief as well as feedback on their initial proposals to begin further development. By the way, the names of the teams have been revealed but will not be matched to their proposals until the winner is announced in June 2015.

On January 16, Helsinki residents can hear directly from the finalist teams during a free public lecture event at 2 p.m. at the Scandic Grand Marina Hotel. Each team will present their philosophy, practices, and previous works.

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The finalists are:

• AGPS Architecture Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland; Los Angeles, USA)
• Asif Khan Ltd. (London, United Kingdom)
• Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (New York, USA; Barcelona, Spain; Sydney, Australia)
• Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050 (Stuttgart, Germany)
• Moreau Kusunoki Architectes (Paris, France)
• SMAR Architecture Studio (Madrid, Spain; Western Australia)

The winning team will receive a prize of €100,000 (approx. US$136,000), while each runner-up will receive €55,000 (approx. US$75,000).

Check out the finalists' initial entries below:

The Stage Two brief will be available online starting January 14. The shortlisted designs and selected honorable mention entries will be displayed in a public exhibition in Helsinki this spring.

In the meantime, you can check out our growing list of Stage One project submissions over on our sister site Archinect. Did you participate in Stage One? Learn how you can share your proposal with us here.

Click through the thumbnail gallery below to see each finalist team's submission boards.