Dear all,
In connection with the open competition for the restoration, renovation and construction of Sveta Nedelya Square by Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Sofia Municipality we inform you as it follows:
In the last days, Sofia Municipality’s team were holding meetings with representatives of the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria. The main topic of the discussions was to give the opportunity to more Bulgarian architects to participate in the contest. As a result of the discussions, it was decided to keep the format but to change its terms in order to give an opportunity for more Bulgarian architects to join the contest.
Due to these circumstances, we are stopping the contest procedure until the new changes are prepared and approved. Once this is done the contest will continue. We will inform you when the changes are made and about the new timetable of the contest.
The team of Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Sofia Municipality
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURAL AND CULTURAL PROJECT FOR
SVETA NEDELYA SQUARE,
THE CITY OF SOFIA
Sofia Municipality announces an open competition for the restoration, renovation and construction of Sveta Nedelya Square and its adjacent public spaces, aiming to create a network of public spaces while preserving their identity.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
SCHEDULE
14 February 2019
Start of
the contest
29 April 2019
Deadline
for questions
8 May 2019
17:30 (Bulgarian time) – Deadline for submission of applications
20 & 21 June 2019
The jury shall carry out a pre-selection for decreasing the number of candidates.
AWARDS
The Contracting Authority determines a total amount of prizes to the participants in the contest at the amount of
250 000 BGN
First place
70 000 BGN
second place
60 000 BGN
third place
50 000 BGN
fourth place
40 000 BGN
fifth place
30 000 BGN
JURY
Andreas Ruby
Andreas Ruby is an architecture critic, curator, moderator, teacher and publisher. Aside from regularly contributing to selected international architecture magazines, he has published numerous books on contemporary architecture. He has organized several international symposiums and exhibitions on architecture and design, such as the traveling exhibition „Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois le Prêtre“ launched in 2012, the Montenegro Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennial in 2014. Since 2016 he is the director of the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel.
Borislav Ignatov
Borislav Ignatov is an architect with rich Bulgarian and international experience. He graduated Architecture at UACEG Sofia and then at Columbia University in the City of New York. He has worked as an architect for 10 years in the US – New York and Boston. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria. Specializes in residential, public and industrial buildings.
Bostjan Vuga
Bostjan Vuga graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1992) and continued his post graduate studies at the AA School of Architecture in London. In 1996 Jurij Sadar and Bostjan Vuga cofounded architectural office SADAR+VUGA.
Bostjan Vuga regularly lectures at architectural schools, conferences, and symposia in Slovenia and abroad. He publishes articles about current issues in architecture and urban planning. He co-curated the Montenegro Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2014. Since 2014 he functions as president of the council of the MAO Museum of Architecture and Design of Slovenia in Ljubljana.
Grigor Doytchinov
Grigor Doytchinov graduated architecture at UACEG, Sofia and Aachen, Germany. He had been practicing architecture and urban planning both in Bulgaria and Germany for eight years after graduation. He was chief of a team who has prepared a study on the residential neighborhoods in the central city part of Sofia (1984-1989). In the 1990s he began working as a lecturer at the Technical University in Graz, Austria. Author of a number of studies in the field of urbanism and cultural and historical heritage, conservation and adaptation projects for the historical center of Nablus in Palestine and the cultural and historical reserve in Benares on the Ganges in India, as well as residential complexes in Central Europe.
James Taylor-Foster
James Taylor-Foster is a writer, editor, designer and broadcaster working in the fields of architecture, design, e-culture and technology. He is curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes, Sweden’s national center for architecture and design. Formerly European editor-at-large at ArchDaily, he has practiced architecture in the UK and The Netherlands. In 2016 he co-curated the Nordic Pavilion at the 15th Biennale Architettura di Venice and in 2018 he participated in the central exhibition – free space.
Joni Baboci
Joni Baboci is a planner and architect. He is currently working as the General Director of Planning and Urban Development at the Municipality of Tirana leading a team of 100+ architects, planners and engineers.
His previous experiences include stints in the private sector, a number of successful international architecture competition results as well as a multi-year experience leading a groundbreaking planning and architecture start-up for the Albanian Government nicknamed Atelier Albania.
He is currently focused on exploring innovation in urban redevelopment while employing more sustainable, implementable and functional planning methodologies.
Malina Edreva
Malina Edreva chairs the group of GERB political party in the Sofia Municipal Council. She is a Chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Culture, Science, and Cultural Diversity (since 2007), Member of the Standing Committee on Economics and Municipal Property. She is a Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions. She is a graduate of the University of Plovdiv with a degree in Biology and Chemistry. She later specialized in Culturology in Italy, “Management Skills” at the Bulgarian School of Politics, “Leadership” at the Aspen Institute France.
Maria Mehandzhieva
Maria Mehandzhieva is a Master in Law. He has been working at the Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Sofia Municipality since 2013, currently Chief Legal Adviser at the Urban and Spatial Planning and Immovable Cultural Heritage Directorate at the Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Sofia Municipality. She participated in the preparation of the documents and is a member of the committees in the procedures under the Public Procurement Act, in which Sofia Municipality is the contracting authority. She was a member of the jury in competitions in the sphere of urban planning.
Fabienne Hoelzel
Fabienne Hoelzel is professor of urban design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and the founding-director of FABULOUS URBAN, a design, research and planning practice. Her work in Latin America, in the city of Sao Paolo, was awarded in 2012 the UN Habitat Scroll of Honor for its pioneering work. From 2008 until 2017, Fabienne held a research and teaching position at the Institute of Urban Design at Zurich.
FABULOUS URBAN is involved in a series of community empowering sanitation and infrastructure solutions, as well as research and advisory projects.
The Square
Sveta Nedelya Square
Sveta Nedelya Square is a key element of the central city part, which is the largest area of concentration of public character and expressed nucleus of the center system of Sofia, the elements of the territory are closely bound together in a single developing living system through the variety of access and mobility options and due to the short links between the representative, cultural, recreational and commercial functions of one another within, around and along the diverse such as squares, gardens, boulevards and streets, public buildings and complexes.
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