| Current | September 2023 | On Tuesday and Wednesday, 29 and 30 August 2023, the jury met again in Düsseldorf to discuss and evaluate the four designs that qualified for the second stage. In the meeting, the qualities and ideas of the designs revised on the basis of the information from the jury meeting in the first stage and the presentation dates of the participants' colloquium in the second stage were again intensively discussed. Finally, the design by UNStudio (Amsterdam) was awarded 1st prize. To acknowledge the high level of quality, the three designs by the offices ingenhoven associates (Düsseldorf), Hadi Teherani Architects (Hamburg) and HPP Architekten (Düsseldorf) were each awarded 2nd prize. All information on the competition result can be found under the tab "Result". The designs are also presented on the project homepage of the promoter. April 2023 | On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the jury came together for their 1st stage jury meeting in order to discuss and evaluate the 10 designs that were submitted in the first stage of the competition. During the meeting the submissions, which consistently reflected a high level of quality and diversity, were intensively discussed within the jury and evaluated taking in account all the criteria of the complex design task. During the end of the all-day meeting, the four design works of the offices ingenhoven associates (Düsseldorf), Hadi Teherani Architects (Hamburg), HPP Architekten (Düsseldorf) und UNStudio (Amsterdam) were selected, which are now invited to further work on the design task in the second stage of the competition. January 2023 | The competition was launched on December 16, 2022, with the distribution of the documents to the participants. On January 19th, 2023 the jury discussed and approved the competition brief right before the participants' colloquium took place on the same day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Promoter | HBS 39 GmbH & Co. KG represented through ddp Invest GmbH Rolandstraße 44, 40476 Düsseldorf, Germany in turn represented through Stefan H. Mühling and Bastian Julius Chief Executives in aggreeement with the City of Düsseldorf (state capital) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of competition | The competition was held as a restricted planning competition with two stages in accordance with the "Guidelines for Planning Competitions 2013" (RPW 2013) §3 para. 1 as a realization competition) and §3 para. 3, 4 and 5. The procedure was anonymous in the 1st stage and was carried out in the 2nd stage in a cooperative procedure according to RPW 2013. The assignment of the names of the participants of the 1st stage to the designs was made known to the members of the jury and the awarding authority only after the conclusion of the decision of the jury of the 1st stage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jury | Architectural jurors: • Louisa Hutton, Architect, Berlin • Prof. Regine Leibinger, Architect, Berlin • Prof. Cornelia Müller, Landscape architect, Berlin • Ruth Orzessek-Kruppa, Urban planner, head of the urban planning department, city administration of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Volker Raatz, Architect, Zurich • Manuel Scholl, Architect, Zurich • Prof. Jörn Walter, Urban planner, Hamburg • Michael Zimmermann, Architect, Cologne • Cornelia Zuschke, Architect, deputy for planning, construction, habitation and real estate, city administration of Düsseldorf (state capital) General jurors: • Stefan Mühling, die developer, Düsseldorf • Bastian Julius, Urban planner, die developer, Düsseldorf • Dr. Alexander Fils, CDU fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Lukas Fix, Die PARTEI / Klimaliste fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Alexander Führer, Tierschutz / Freie Wähler fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Peter Klein, Die Linke fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Daniela Masberg-Eikelau, FDP fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Markus Raub, SPD fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) • Astrid Wiesendorf, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen fraction, city council of Düsseldorf (state capital) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prizes and fees | Each participant of competition Stage 1 who submits a detailed and assessable design concept in accordance with the requirements laid down in the competition brief received an equal share of the total of EUR 240,000 (net) as a flat-rate fee. In addition, each participant of competition Stage 2 who submits a detailed and assessable design concept in accordance with the requirements laid down in the competition brief received an equal share of the total of EUR 160,000 (net) a flat-rate fee. In addition, a total of EUR 135,000 (net) was awarded as prizes in Competition Stage 2 with the following distribution: • 1st prize EUR 60.000 • three 2nd prizes of EUR 45,000 each The jury divided the prize amount differently unanimously according to §7 RPW 2013. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participants | The following architectural firms have been invited to participate in the competition and have bindingly confirmed their participation: • 3XN Copenhagen A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark • BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, Denmark • Buro Ole Scheeren, Berlin, Germany • C. F. Møller Architects, Berlin, Germany • David Chipperfield Architects, London, United Kingdom • Hadi Teherani Architects GmbH, Hamburg, Germany • HPP Architekten GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany • ingenhoven associates GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany • MVRDV Germany, Rotterdam, Netherlands • UN Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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