Elephant Park in Zürich Zoo

Elephant Park in Zürich Zoo

Open, 2-stage, anonymous, RfP

Zürich, Switzerland

Registration Deadline – 18 January 2008 (by 4:00 pm)

Submission Deadline – 16 May 2008 (by 4:00 pm)

SPONSOR:

City of Zürich, Switzerland

TYPE:

Open, 2-stage, anonymous (3-5 teams selected for second stage)

ELIGIBILITY:

Architect/Landscape architect teams w/Zoo designer (required)

AWARDS:

120,000CHF will be set aside for purchases, etc. Finalists will be compensated 30,000CHF to complete their proposals.

LANGUAGE:

The procurement language is German

FEE:

None

JURY:

Martin Naville, president of the administrative board of Zoo

Zürich AG

Dr. Alex Rübel, director and member of the executive board

of Zoo Zürich AG

Dr. Fred Kurt, elephant expert, Aichach

Dr. Jörg Junhold, director Zoo Leipzig

Willy Haderer, administrative board Zoo Zürich (substitute)

Preliminary Examination and Administration:

Virág Kiss, architect, project development, Office for Building

and Construction, City of Zurich

Ursula Tschirren, assistant project development, Office for

Building and Construction, City of Zurich

PROGRAM:

The objective of the design competition is a new attractive and

identity-establishing elephant park that fits well into the zoological

garden and complies with the present company philosophy of the

Zoo. Within the framework of the Masterplan Zoo Zurich, a

contemporary, distinctive and environmental and animal friendly

facility shall be created, thus following the tradition of integrated

landscape exhibits.

INFORMATION:

Tendering Body

Stadt Zürich

Amt für Hochbauten

Lindenhofstrasse 21

CH-8001 Zurich

For direct submission:

Amthaus III, Lindenhofstrasse 21, CH-8001 Zürich

2nd floor, Empfang [Reception], office 205

Business hours from 8 am to 4 pm

http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ahb

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Changdong Station winner – image ©D & B Partners Architects

Whereas international competitions for real projects have become a rarity lately, Korea is a welcome exception. Among the plethora of competition announcements we receive almost weekly, several have ended with foreign firms as winners. But the history of welcoming international participants does go back several years. One notable early example was the Incheon Airport competition, won by Fentress Bradburn Architects (1962-70).
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Arriving to board a ferry boat or cruise ship used to be a rather mundane experience. If you had luggage, you might be able to drop it off upon boarding, assuming that the boarding operation was sophisticated enough. In any case, the arrival experience was nothing to look forward to. I recall boarding the SS United States for a trip to Europe in the late 1950s. Arriving at the pier in New York, the only thought any traveler had was to board that ocean liner as soon as possible, find one’s cabin, and start exploring. If you were in New York City and arriving early, a nearby restaurant or cafe would be your best bet while passing time before boarding.

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The world has experienced a limited number of open competitions over the past three decades, but even with diminishing numbers, some stand out among projects in their categories that can’t be ignored for the high quality and degree of creativity they revealed. Included among those are several invited competitions that were extraordinary in their efforts to explore new avenues of institutional and museum design. Some might ask why the Vietnam Memorial is not mentioned here. Only included in our list are competitions that were covered by us, beginning in 1990 with COMPETITIONS magazine to the present day. As for what category a project under construction (Science Island), might belong to or fundraising still in progress (San Jose’s Urban Confluence or the Cold War Memorial competition, Wisconsin), we would classify the former as “built” and wait and see what happens with the latter—keeping our fingers crossed for a positive outcome.

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RUR model perspective – ©RUR

New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan (2011-2020)
Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC/ Jesse Reiser – U.S.A.
with
Fei & Cheng Associates/Philip T.C. Fei – R.O.C. (Tendener)
This was probably the last international open competition result that was built in Taiwan. A later competition for the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, won by Neil Denari of the U.S., the result of a shortlisting procedure, was not built. The fact that the project by RUR was eventually completed—the result of the RUR/Fei & Cheng’s winning entry there—certainly goes back to the collaborative role of those to firms in winning the 2008 Taipei Pop Music Center competition, a collaboration that should not be underestimated in setting the stage for this competition

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