European
Central Bank launches international architectural
competition
26
November 2002
The European Central
Bank (ECB) has launched an international urban
planning and architectural design competition for
its new premises. The purpose of this competition is
to identify the best design concepts for the ECB's
future home and to select an architect to carry out
the detailed planning work for the new premises and,
if possible, to implement the project.
The new premises are
to be built on the site of the Großmarkthalle
(wholesale market) – an area of 120,000 m2
on the river in the eastern part of Frankfurt am
Main – which the ECB purchased from the City of
Frankfurt in March 2002. The site will be developed
to accommodate 2,500 workplaces, with office space
and special areas covering a main usable area of
approximately 100,000 m2, plus all the
necessary parking areas and technical facilities.
The competition is
open to architects from all over the world and the
deadline for applications is 20 January 2003.
An open call for candidature has been published in
the Official Journal of the European Communities and
on the ECB's website. Interested architects should
submit their applications in accordance with the
requirements set out in the call for candidature.
The competition will be organised as a restricted
project competition in two phases following a
pre-selection of qualified applicants. Eighty
architects from among the interested applicants will
be invited to participate in the first phase, which
will be to develop initial outline design concepts.
These design concepts must take into account the
fact that the Großmarkthalle is a listed
building.
A jury composed of
internationally renowned architects and
representatives of the City of Frankfurt and the
European System of Central Banks (ESCB) will then
short-list 12 candidates to be admitted to the
second phase.
The jury is
composed of the following people:
On behalf of the
ESCB
Lucas Papademos,
Vice-President of the ECB (Chairperson);
Liam Barron, Director General of the Central Bank
of Ireland;
Sirkka Hämäläinen, Member of the Executive
Board of the ECB;
Yves Mersch, Governor of the Banque centrale du
Luxembourg;
Hanspeter K. Scheller, Director General
Administration of the ECB;
Ernst Welteke, President of the Deutsche
Bundesbank.
On behalf of the
City of Frankfurt
Edwin Schwarz,
City Councillor responsible for town planning.
External
architects
Françoise-Hélène
Jourda, Paris/France (Vice-Chairperson);
Oriol Bohigas, Barcelona/Spain;
Kees Christiaanse, Rotterdam/Netherlands;
Massimiliano Fuksas, Rome/Italy;
Michael Wilford, London/United Kingdom.
The following
people have been appointed as alternates to the
above jury members:
On behalf of the
ESCB
Hans Georg
Fabritius, Member of the Executive Board of the
Deutsche Bundesbank;
Klaus Gressenbauer, Director Planning and
Controlling of the ECB;
Brian Halpin, Deputy Director General of the
Central Bank of Ireland;
Thomas Rinderspacher, Head of Premises Division of
the ECB;
Fernand Yasse, Head of Organisation and Risk
Management of the Banque centrale du Luxembourg.
On behalf of the
City of Frankfurt
Dirk Zimmermann,
Head of the Town Planning department.
External
architects
Craig Dykers,
Oslo/Norway;
Martha Schwartz, Boston/United States.
The 12 candidates
who are admitted to the second phase will be asked
to present detailed architectural design concepts
for all the buildings. At the end of the second
phase, the jury will select three prizewinning
designs. A total of EUR 700,000 has been allocated
to cover the fees of all 12 candidates participating
in the second phase plus the prize money for the
three winning designs. It is expected that the jury
will make its decision, and thus prizes will be
awarded, in the first quarter of 2004.
Detailed information
on the competition can be found in the Official
Journal of the European Communities and on the ECB's
website at www.ecb.int.
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