Yekaterinburg City: Competition Concept for the City Center

UMMC Holding - a leading developer in Ekaterinburg and promoter of high-rise construction not only in Ekaterinburg but also all over Russia (the company annually holds Forum 100+, the only one in Russia international conference on high-rise construction) has held an architect contest for the best concept of the Ekaterinburg City multifunction city center in the framework of the Forum 2016. The competition was arranged with the support of the Ministry for Construction and Infrastructure Development of the Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg Administration and NP SRO “Ural Gild of Builders”.  The idea of the project is to hold an architectural creativity contest that would implement advanced Russian and world achievements in the field of design and construction of high-rise residential buildings and multipurpose edifices. 

Ekaterinburg City is a business district being constructed in the center of the Ural capital. The main investor and developer of the project is UMMC Holding. By now all the previous  general plans developed by the French studio Valode et Pistre architectes and the German studio Werner Sobek by the developer’s order have already become out-of-date  and require revision in the context of modern market realities and city needs.  According to the contest assignment, the participants are to design a land development project for Ekaterinburg City. The project is supposed to include design of functional zoning of the territory, proposal of the development concept and spatial solutions of the complex, elaboration of an architectural and artistic image of the object, production of a sketch plan of the podium space with conventional presentation of the high-rise space. According to the contest conditions, the participant should provide features typical to “sustainable architecture” and develop a plan on how to preserve historical buildings located in the City territory. The designer should include into the project three new high-rise buildings (150-200 meter, 100-200 meter and 250-270 meter high), a 2-5 floor podium, several residential buildings up to 75 meters, an underground parking, and a concert hall for 2000-2500 persons. In total 43 projects were submitted for the contest including proposals of architects from Belarus, Ukraine, China, France and Japan. The best project was chosen by the jury and Internet users. 

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Text: Philip Nikandrov
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