Sponsor: Belgian Buildings Agency

Type: Open, international, ideas

 

Location: Brussels, Belgium

 

Language: English, French, Dutch

 

Fee: No fee to register

5 EUR to download detailed information about the courthouse

 

Eligibility:

Professionals and students in architecture, urban planning, engineers, market development engineers, artists, and related fields.

 

Timetable:

15 October 2010 – Registration deadline

16 November 2010 – Submissions deadline

December 2010 – Winners selected by jury

 

Awards:

First prize – 15,000 EUR

Second prize – 10,000 EUR

Third prize – 5,000 EUR

Jury: To be announced

Design Challenge:

"Brussels Courthouse, Imagine the Future!" aims at developing a view of the future of the Courthouse in the form of one or more ideas, including the broad lines of an architectural and urban planning project for the Courthouse and the surroundings of Place Poelaert. This is an open and creative international contest. The concepts submitted shall treat the building as a monument and consider the meaning of this place within a contemporary context.

 

The organizers wish to keep this line of approach as broad as possible. The purpose of this contest is not to submit a finalized urban planning or architectural project to the Belgian Buildings Agency and the FPS Justice but to imagine the future allocation – whether judicial or not – of the Brussels Courthouse and of the surroundings of Place Poelaert.

 

It is suggested that the participants work on one or on both of the following scenarios:

1. Either a scenario based on a Courthouse (partially) keeping its judicial functions, e.g. the court of appeal (civil section), the Court of Cassation, the Public Prosecutor’s office of the Court of Cassation, the court of assize and the bars.

2. or a scenario based on a Courthouse totally cleared of its judicial functions and to imagine (objective of the contest):
• What appearance would the Courthouse have after an architectural intervention, which must however not damage the heritage it represents?
• How does the above-mentioned proposal integrate into the surroundings of Place Poelaert, for which other development possibilities may also be submitted?
• What would be the Courthouse’s new functions?
• How would citizens and Legal professionals perceive this building once it is modernized?
• What would be the new urban juncture of this building between the upper and lower part of the City of Brussels?

Submission Requirements: The application must include at least:

• A Word document (or another text format) A4 summary document (max 5 pages) including:

The title;

The description of your idea;

Your emblematic image of the project;

• A document in landscape format illustrating the project (one or more images).

• A creative document of your own choosing (drawing, short stories, cartoon, video, plan, Internet website, slide show, real or virtual model, etc.) presenting this idea.

For more information, go to: http://www.brusselscourthousecontest.be/content/international-ideas-contest

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