Sponsor: Warsaw Local Government Institution of Culture

Type: RFQ, two-stage, international

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Language: Polish, English

Fee: None

Eligibility: Open to professional architects

Timetable:

30 July 2010 – Registration deadline

03 September 2010 – First stage submissions deadline

17-19 September 2010 – Jury deliberation

20 September 2010 – Participants selected for Second Stage announced on website

29 October 2010 – Second Stage submissions due

12-14 November 2010 – Jury deliberation

14 November 2010 – Announcement of competitions results

Awards:

First Prize - PLN 200,000 (approx. 62,500 USD)

Stage Two finalists - PLN 25,000 (approx. 7800 USD)

Jury:

Eckhard Kahle – physicist – acoustician, musician (Brussels)
Tomasz Konior – architect (Katowice)
Marek Kraszewski – director of Culture Bureau of the Capital City of Warsaw
Andrzej Krzyżanowski- musician (Warszawa)
Janusz Marynowski – musician, director of Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia (Warsaw)
Bohdan Paczowski – architect (Luxemburg) – Chairman of Competition Jury
Rudy Ricciotti- architect (Bandol, France)
Małgorzata Rozbicka – architect, historian of architecture (Warsaw)
Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski – architect (Warsaw)
Piotr Śmierzewski – architect (Koszalin)
Hubert Trammer – architect (Lublin) – Reporting Judge

 

Design Challenge:

The Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra announces a two-stage architectural competition for a conceptual design of a 1800-seat main municipal concert hall, adaptated from the ex-Veterinary Institute's historical buildings located at Grochowska Street in Warsaw.

The Competition task consists in developing an architectural and urban concept of the development of the  former Veterinary Institute complex for the purpose of the seat of Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia. The task includes the preparing of conceptual architectural designs of the adaptation of the existing listed buildings as well as designing the main city concert hall of the seating capacity of 1800.

The objective of the Competition is to indicate the best design of Warsaw’s new cultural centre related to Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia. The new centre will not only be an attractive place to present classical music and other genres of art, but also a place to spend free time. Any Competition entry must take into consideration the international, regional and local dimensions of this undertaking.

Submission Requirements:

In Stage I of the Competition the Participants submit sealed parcels containing:

(a) Two boards of the 100x70 cm format

(b) An A3 format brochure containing all boards printed in this format and a description on two A4 or one A3 format page

(c) A CD or a DVD disc containing an electronic PDF recording of the following elements: board 100x70 cm, a legible foreshortening of a board of the 100x70 cm format to the A3 format; description.

(d) One sealed envelope containing a filled out identification card

 

For more information, go to: http://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/konkurs/index.html

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