Competitions

International Two-stage Architectural Design Contest of Building for Arvo Pärt Centre

22.01.2014

In collaboration with the Union of Estonian Architects, the Arvo Pärt Centre has announced a two-stage competition for designing a building for the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, near Tallinn. The aim of the competition is to find the best architectural solution for the building, which will house the Arvo Pärt archive at its core.

The competition will be carried out in two stages. The deadline for the first stage is 22 January 2014, when the applications for participating need to be submitted. The second stage will see up to 20 architect teams complete design concepts with technical drawings.

The total prize fund for the two-stage competition is 30,000 euros, and the final results will be announced on 20 June 2014.

“The aim of the first stage of the competition is to select the participants whose previous works are most suitable for the concept and need of the Arvo Pärt Centre,” explains Anu Kivilo, managing director of the centre.

The Arvo Pärt Centre was founded in 2010 by Arvo Pärt and his family with the aim of creating opportunities for preserving and researching the creative heritage of the composer in his native land, Estonia. The centre is situated in Laulasmaa, 35 km from Tallinn, on a peninsula with magnificent natural surroundings within a pine forest near the sea.

The archive of the Arvo Pärt Centre brings together the entire creative legacy of the composer and related information and documents, both in physical and digital form.

The building of the Arvo Pärt Centre will be located in Laulasmaa, on the Lohusalu peninsula. The heart of the centre is the Arvo Pärt archive and the new building can accommodate visitors and researchers. “We plan to extend the centre’s scope – to work together with researchers, include educational programmes, hold conferences, exhibitions, music and film nights and be more open to the public,” says Kivilo.

Total prize fund for the competition is 30,000 euros, which includes 10,000 euros for first place, 8,000 for second and 6,000 for third place. In addition, three honourable mentions will be awarded.

Press release about the results of the 1st stage

For the rules of the competition - 1st and 2nd stage: please registrate in the form below and the zip.files will be downloadable in the end of this page.

The competition is organised by the Arvo Pärt Centre Foundation in collaboration with the Union of Estonian Architects.

Look at the introducing film.

www.arhliit.ee/apc

Information in Estonian language

www.arvopart.ee

Questions-answers (updated in 17.Jan.´14)

Public reports of the 1st stage - in English

Public reports of the 1st stage - in Estonian

Questions-answers (incl report of the information day in Laulasmaa)

Cost Proposal Form (5.3, updated in 31.03.14)

Questions-answers (submitted after 18.03.14, updated in 21.05.14)

The results of the 2nd stage (press release); the protocol and full report with signatures of the jury.