16 firms designed new Market Square

May 15, 2012 Katowice the City City Center Redevelopment 0

In the middle of March, the jury of the open architectural concept of the Market Square’s public spaces had invited 31 architectural studios to submit their projects in the second stage of the contest. Deadline to enter the offers expired yesterday, on 14th of May.

Out of the 31, sixteen architectural firms decided to prepare and submit projects. Now the competition jury will have time to mark the ideas and choose the best one. The winning studio is scheduled to be announced in the middle of June this year.

The successful tenderer will be awarded a single-source contract worth PLN 1,6 million and will prepare a complete design documentation including all administrative decisions and permissions. The architectural design and its investment cost estimate can not exceed PLN 40 million including Value Added Tax.

Works on the new public spaces of the Market Sq. will be conducted within the next stage of the City Center redevelopment.

Works on a new tram line’s route - part of the City Center’s redevelopment were commenced in the beginning of March and are being conducted by the consortium of NDI and Balzola.
Works on a new tram line’s route - part of the first stage of the City Center’s redevelopment - were commenced in the beginning of March and are being conducted by the consortium of NDI and Balzola.