{"id":381,"date":"2020-12-14T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krastacity.lv\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:45:41","slug":"the-course-of-the-competition-for-the-development-vision-of-krasta-city-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krastacity.lv\/en\/the-course-of-the-competition-for-the-development-vision-of-krasta-city-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"The course of the competition for the development vision of “Krasta City” territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May, the project developer “Hepsor” announced an architectural sketch design competition with a prize fund of 30,000 EUR. The aim of competition – to obtain architecturally and functionally well thought-out and economically justified sketch designs for the development vision of the territory at Krasta Street 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, and 3D and a spatial development vision for a multifunctional office complex at Krasta Street 1A through creative rivalry, rational use of resources and free competition among the participants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the developer’s priorities is to ensure the maximum involvement of various social groups throughout the project, hence emphasizing the importance of public opinion and assessment from industry experts in the creation of “Krasta City” and guaranteeing the transparency of the process. To implement it already in the first phase of the project, not only the composition of the jury, including the names of persons, professional qualifications, and institutions represented but also the criteria for determining the winners were publicly visible in the design competition brief. Every company in the industry could get acquainted with the brief on the website of the <\/span>Latvian Association of Architects<\/span> and \u201cKrasta City\u201d competition and consider its participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The participants of the competition had to provide a high-quality visio<\/span>n of the spatial development along with the master plan concept for the area of the \u201cKrasta City\u201d indicating development stages and architectural solutions for the office building at Krasta Street 1a, a commercial building with a multi-story car park at Krasta Street 1C and freestanding buildings at Krasta Street 1B, 1D, and 3A. A total of 13 applications from 5 countries were submitted to the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A respectable jury of nine people – various industry professionals and the municipality, evaluated the submitted designs. The jury consisted of the chairman of the jury J\u0101nis Dripe, Karla Polli and Martti Krass (“Krasta City”), architect and urban planner M\u0101ra Kalv\u0101ne (SIA \u201cMetrum\u201d), architect and professor Toomas Tammis with experience in evaluating Latvian architecture competitions (Estonia), architect M\u0101ra Liepa-Zeme\u0161a (Riga City Development Department), architect Gunita Kal\u012bte (Riga City Construction Board), Egons B\u0113rzi\u0146\u0161 (Riga City Architect’s Office), Edgars B\u0113rzi\u0146\u0161 (Latvian Association of Architects), as well as the secretary of the commission without a right to vote – architect Dace Kalv\u0101ne.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The integrity in the urban landscape, architectural quality, and functionality of buildings, sustainable solutions, technical quality, economic and social efficiency, and other factors of each participant\u2019s offer was evaluated within the framework of the competition.<\/span> The evaluation of applications took place in several closed sessions from 11 to 13 September. Following the guidelines of good practice for the architecture competition and ensuring fair rivalry, the sketch design evaluation was carried out anonymously. The sketch materials of all applications were pre-marked with mottoes without revealing their authors, and the authors’ names – placed in sealed motto envelopes, which were opened after the announcement of results.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the morning of the first day, the entire jury visited \u201cKrasta City\u201d and the adjacent territory, as well as Za\u0137usala by driving across the Southern Bridge to assess the fitting of the project in the city skyline, the surrounding building landscape, and infrastructure opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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