Koivusaari International Ideas Competition

Deadline for entries: 10 November 2008
Language: Finnish and English

Origin: Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA)

The competition is open to all. The competition languages are Finnish and English. The entrants are encouraged to form multidisciplinary planning groups with a wide range of expertise on land use, landscape planning, traffic technology, municipal engineering, and construction and energy engineering.

The competition is organised in order to prepare the component master plan for Koivusaari Island. The objective of the competition is to produce innovative plan alternatives which can serve as a basis for further planning and drafting of the component master plan and to identify the essential features of this new district which will have a maritime atmosphere and an underground railway connection.

Before the jury panel makes its decision the entries will be publicly displayed. If necessary, a second stage will be arranged.

Prizes of the first stage of the competition totalling 110,000 euros will be distributed as follows:

• 1st prize 40,000 euros
• 2nd prize 30,000 euros
• 3rd prize 20,000 euros
• two purchases, of 10,000 euros each

Seminar for the entrants
A seminar on the competition will be arranged on 1 September 2008 at 15.00 in the auditorium of the city planning office of Helsinki, Kansakoulukatu 3. The seminar is open to all.

competition conditions
Supplementary documents you will find on http://www.hel.fi/. In addition, the printed competition conditions will be available at the following addresses:
Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA)
Runeberginkatu 5
00100 Helsinki
web: http://www.safa.fi/