Bratislava, Slovakia
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Zaha Hadid Architects, a British architectural design firm launched by the world-renown architect Zaha Hadid, won an international competition to design the Čulenova project under development in Bratislava by the Penta Investments private equity group. Penta plans to build offices and apartments on a plot of land on Čulenova Street that it acquired in January 2008. The jury selected her firm’s proposed design from over 90 proposals submitted, Penta Investments announced on October 6.
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The winning design for the mixed-used project includes
high-rise buildings and reconstruction of a historical industrial building.
“The project of Zaha Hadid was the most comprehensive and the most convincing solution of the tasks and met all the set criteria,” said Štefan Šlachta, the chief architect of Bratislava and head of the jury, as cited the Penta press release. “Moreover, this is a project bringing to Bratislava a world-known name and it will get on the pages of the world architectural press.”
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The jury, which in addition to Šlachta, included Jozef Oravkin, Juraj Šaštinský, Miro Hrušovský, Linda Trembová, all from Penta and Peter Gero, the head of the Department for City Development and Revitalisation in
Hamburg, first chose nine projects from the 90-plus proposals. Then it shortlisted five works for the second round which the jury assessed alongside four projects directly elaborated by requested European architects, meaning that in the end Zaha Hadid Architects was chosen as the best proposal from among nine competing projects.
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“The international competition for the locality of Čulenova and the participation of prominent world-known architects is an example of the way in which developers and the city itself should try to find the best possible architectural concept,”
said Miro Hrušovský, the senior architect of the Penta private equity group.
Penta Investments acquired the parcel of land on Čulenova Street in 2008. This is a former industrial zone close to the historical city centre, the new building of the
Slovak National Theatre and the
Eurovea development. A protected historical building – the turbine hall designed by
Dušan Jurkovič, a Slovak prominent architect known as the founder of Slovak modern architecture – sits on part of the land plot. The building will be reconstructed and be used as a modern art gallery or for another commercial purposes, Lea Krčmáriková from Penta Investments informed
The Slovak Spectator.
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The goal of Penta Investments is to create part of a ‘new city centre’ with the highest quality urban spaces and architecture that will accommodate more than 120,000 square metres of offices, residences, retail space and cultural facilities.
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Penta has not yet announced when construction would begin or its estimated investment. Earlier reports were that the developer would invest about €300 million and start construction at the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012.
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Penta entered the real estate sector in 2005 by building the Digital Park project in Bratislava. Last year the Prague-based Cigler Marani Architects studio received the prestigious Dušan Jurkovič Award for architecture for the second phase of that project.
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The scheme:
The scheme is based on a dynamic field strategy which organizes the new city centre program along a gradient of circular and elliptical patterns. A fluid field emerges from the underlying matrix in a series of larger tower extrusions towards the sites perimeter and intermediate scale pavilion-like structures surrounding the cultural plaza next to the existing power plant.
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In order to activate the ground throughout the whole site and provide quality public space, the double storeys underground car park is covered by a one storey high modulated slab, which is perforated at strategic points for day lit patio spaces in order to accommodate retail and public landscape with various points of interest such as the cultural centre with its museum shop and further public attractors (e. g. conference space and event halls).
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Towards the site’s perimeter the slab is slightly lifted up at specific points in order to define the site’s edge and accommodate pro- grammatic points of interest, access points to the parking level and access to office and housing related program while at other stra- tegically chosen areas it merges with the surrounding city level to create a highly blurred site boundary condition that links the new urban parks and plazas with the surrounding city fabric.
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The scheme creates density via efficient high rise structures while providing a generous and highly activated ground level with public spaces that are gradually differentiated within a 3-dimensional field condition.
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Project Data
Project name: Bratislava Culenova New City Center
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Program: Mix Use--Residential (5 towers) + Administrative (2 tower) + Retail + Cultural Center
Number of floors: 32,32,27,27,27,27 + 2 underground
Construction period: 2012 - 2014 (1st phase) finish 2018
Total height: approx. 140 m
Cost of the project: 267 million €
Number of parking places: ? (underground)
Total floor area: 150,000 m2
- Offices - 66,550 m2
- Housing - 69,805 m2
- Cultural - 5000 m2
The people
Client: Penta Investments Limited o.z.
Principal designer: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect: Thomas Vietzke, Jens Borstelmann
Design Team: Tom Wuenschmann, Torsten Broeder, Martin Krcha, Suryansh Chandra, Phillip Ostermeier, Goswin Rothental, Stefan Rinnebach, Michal Treder
Images: © Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
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