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
Architects from Italy, France, Russia and Bulgaria continue in the second phase of the competition for a new look at Sveta Nedelya Square
Today the jury’s work was completed in the first stage of the international competition for a conceptual design for the renovation of Sveta Nedelya Square in the historical centre of Sofia. The seven participants were selected to whom Sofia Municipality will send invitations to develop conceptual projects:
- Consortium: OW/MA/CL with consortium members: One Works, Maofficina, Сracknell
- Studio Paola Vigano
- Konkurent-90 EOOD
- Studio Wilmotte
- Studio Fuksas
- Consortium AI Architects LLD, CLAB Architettura, Yuri Sheredega, Dina Dridze, Evgeniy Shirinyan
- Consortium "GTRF & Studio Morfe participant in the association GIOVANNI TORTELLI ROBERTO FRASSONI ARCHITETTI
The international jury was attended by arch. Borislav Ignatov and Assoc. Prof. Yordanka Kandulkova – representatives of the Chamber of Bulgarian Architects, arch. Grigor Doychinov – Representative of the Union of Architects in Bulgaria, Arch. Sergey Kuznetsov – Chief Architect of Moscow, Arch. Marlena Happach – Chief Architect of Warsaw, Arch. Yoni Babotsi – General Director of Planning and Urban Development at the Municipality of Tirana, Arch. Martin Aarz of Rotterdam, arch. Sotiris Tsolous of Athens, working in Dubai, arch. Galina Tascheva, who works in the United States, representatives of the Regional History Museum Sofia – Dr. Veneta Handjiyska, eng. Boris Chilev and arch. Valentina Varbanova, arch. Yasen Kiossev from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy and Maria Mahandjieva – lawyer from the Architecture and Urban Planning Department of Sofia Municipality. The chairman of the jury was Mrs. Malina Edreva, Chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Culture, Science, and Cultural Diversity at Sofia Council.
Sofia Municipality will notify all contestants of the jury decision and, after expiration of the appeal deadline, will invite the seven selected teams to submit preliminary projects. It is expected that the winner will be elected at the end of November, at which Sofia Municipality will assign the elaboration of the square renovation projects.
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.
14 November 2019
17:30 (Bulgarian time) – Deadline for submission of competition projects
28 & 29 November 2019
Jury of competition projects
29 November 2019
Announcement of results
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
Boris
Podrecca
Boris Podrecca spent his childhood in Trieste. He studied sculpture in Venice and architecture in Vienna, where he moved in the 1960s and graduated in 1968. The movement of the varied paths he has taken in his life is reflected in his archi-cultural work. Boris Podrecca lives and works in Vienna and Venice. Guest professorships in Lausanne, Paris, Venice, Philadelphia, London, Vienna, Harvard-Cambridge (Boston) and since 1988 full professorship at the Technical University of Stuttgart as Director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space. He received several honors and prizes: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, Kulturpreis für Architektur, Vienna, Jože Plečnik Award, Ljubljana, Premio San Giusto d’oro, Trieste, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien, Premio “Vergilius d’Oro”, Mantova, Doctor honoris causa of the University of Maribor and of the University of Belgrade, Member of Honor of the Academies of Sciences and Arts in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, Member of Honor of Bund der Deutschen Architekten, Germany. |
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. |
Veneta Handzhiyska -Yankulova
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veneta Handzhiyska -Yankulova is an archaeologist with over 15 years of experience in archaeological sites. Since 2012, she is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Culture, Historical Heritage and Tourism at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies. Simultaneously, she teaches a specialized course for students majoring in Archaeology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. In 2017, she was elected director of the Regional Museum of History in Sofia. She manages research and studies on the territory of the National Archaeological Reserve Thracian and Antique City of Cabyle and on the site Roman Villa and Settlement near the village of Suhache. She is a member of the Standing Committee on Humanities and Arts at the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency. Her scientific interests are in the field of ancient archaeology. She is the author of the monograph Dining Ceramics from the Hellenistic City of Cabyle and of a number of articles on ceramic production, trade contacts, urban development and urban planning in the antiquity.
Galina Tachieva
Galina Tachieva is a planner, urban designer and architectural designer with more than twenty years experience in sustainable urbanism, urban redevelopment, sprawl repair, and form-based codes. She is the author of the award-winning Sprawl Repair Manual (Island Press) and the SmartCode Sprawl Repair Module.
Multilingual, Tachieva has experience with projects across the United States, Latin America, Europe and Russia, including regional plans, environmental conservation, new communities, resort towns, downtowns and urban infill, and commercial, retail, institutional and residential buildings. Managing complex projects and teams, she has led charrettes and other public processes, from project initiation through implementation.
Tachieva maintains an active civic engagement. A member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) she has been leading its national Sprawl Retrofit Initiative. She is a founding member of the Council for European Urbanism (CEU), and she has lectured throughout the world. She has been a visiting lecturer and design critic at Harvard University, the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), and at the University of Miami.
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.
David Basulto
David Basulto is a graduate architect from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2006). Founder and Editor in Chief of ArchDaily, and its global sites in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. ArchDaily’s mission is “to improve the quality of life of the 3 billion people who live in cities in the next 40 years, by providing inspiration, knowledge, and tools to the architects who fill face this challenge.” He has served as jury for several award, prizes and design competitions in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia.
ArchDaily is based in Santiago, Chile, with offices and operations in Beijing, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bogotá, and Lima.
David has lectured at Harvard (Boston, USA), Escola do Cidade (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Strelka Institute (Moscow, Russia), Tsinghua University (Beijing, P.R. China), TEC de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), Universidad Católica (Santiago, Chile), the Center for Architecture (New York, USA), and at the annual American Institute of Architects Convention (Atlanta, USA).
He has also worked as curator and editor for architecture biennales, exhibitions, and magazines, and as a jury for design competitions and architecture awards. Currently, he is the curator of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
David is an Endeavor Entrepreneur from the Endeavor Foundation in New York, and received the National Award for Innovation from the Chilean Government in 2012.
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 extremely passionate about architecture and planning and is currently focused on exploring innovation in urban redevelopment while employing more sustainable, implementable and functional planning methodologies.
Yordanka Kandulkova
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arch. Yordanka Kandulkova is a member of the Bulgarian National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and sites, ICOMOS.
Since 1996 she is a regular lecturer at “Conservation of Architectural Heritage” in the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia. She is head of the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the university. She has worked in the National Institute of Immovable Cultural Heritage as architect, researcher and Inspector. In the period 2010-2011 Arch. Kandulkova was its director.
She is author of numerous scientific publications and reports dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage. Her professional experience includes urban planning of historic sites, conservation, restoration, exhibition and adaptation of architectural and archaeological heritage and contemporary architecture.
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.
Marlena Happach
Marlena Happach, architect and town planner, head of the Architecture and Spatial Planning Department in Warsaw City Hall. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw’s University of Technology. In the years 2012-2015 she was vice-president, and from 2015 to 2016 president, of the Warsaw Branch of the Association of Polish Architects. Before becoming the City Architect for Warsaw, she was a founding member of the NGO “Odblokuj” (eng. Un-Block), which works together with local residents to revitalise city spaces.
Martin Aarts
Martin Aarts graduated TU-Delft with specialization Architecture & Urbanism in 1882. From 1984 to 2005 he has worked as urban designer City of Rotterdam. Among his projects as urban designer are the New Central Station and area, the transformation of the Waterfront, the Historic centre, the Inner-city vision and etc. He is teacher Rotterdam Academy of Architecture from 1984 till present. He has been lecturer in the Teacher Technical University Delft. From 2005 to 2017 he was Chief at Urban Planning Department in the City of Rotterdam. He also teaches in the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam.
Paolo Desideri
Paolo Desideri graduated in architecture in Rome in 1980. He is Full Professor since 1985 and since 2000 he is Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of the University of Rome “Roma Tre”. He has been visiting Professor in many Schools of Architecture.
He is chief architect and founding partner of ABDR Architetti Associati, along with Maria Laura Arlotti, Michele Beccu and Filippo Raimondo. His firm has been in practice since 1982. The work of his architectural practice primarily focuses on large-scale infrastructural and cultural projects both in the public and private sector as well as on high-density housing complexes. Some of the ABDR projects have to be mentioned: Italian Pavilion at Expo Astana 2017, the New High Speed Train Station in Casablanca, the New High Speed Train Station “Roma Tiburtina”, the New Opera House in Florence, the Refurbishment of the National Archaeological Museum in Reggio Calabria, the New Subway Stations of the B1 Line in Rome, the “Palazzo delle Esposizioni” Refurbishment and the Renovation of the “ex-serra Piacentini” in Rome.
He has a vast editorial activity and his articles regularly appear on major architecture magazines. He is author of numerous critical and theoretical texts of architectural and urban design.
Sergey Kuznetsov
In 2012, Sergey Kuznetsov was appointed to the post of Chief Architect. In 2001, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture trained as an architect. In 2010, Sergey Kuznetsov co-authored the project and design of the exhibition „Factory Russia“ of the Russian pavilion at the XII Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2012, at the XIII Architecture Biennale in Venice, he was the co-curator and co-author of the design of the Russian Pavilion’s exhibition, which received the prize “special mention“ from the Biennale jury. By order of the Mayor of Moscow on 20 August 2012 Sergey Kuznetsov was appointed as the Chief Architect of Moscow, the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow. Upon the initiative of Sergey Kuznetsov, more than 50 architectural competitions were organized. Competitions had a different scale: from town-planning projects and buildings in key points of the city to competitions for facades and even individual elements of buildings. Almost always Sergey Kuznetsov is personally a member of the jury or its chairperson. Every year, educational exhibitions and conferences are held under the leadership of Sergey Kuznetsov: Comfortable City and Open City.
Sotiris Tsoulos
After founding and leading RMJM Istanbul for six years, Sotiris Tsoulos joined RMJM Dubai as Design Director in early 2018. Prior to that, Sotiris had worked in Athens, where he was born and raised, Glasgow, where he studied, and Vienna and Kuala Lumpur, where he worked. The diverse contexts and requirements of these very different cities taught Sotiris how to appropriately respond to a myriad of architectural challenges, all while remaining unique in his expression.
Sotiris has worked on multitude of high profile projects, across many industry sectors, from a large scale mixed-use, master planning projects all the way to smaller-scale landscape and urban regeneration developments.
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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