Bridge Design Competition
Bridge Design Competition
The City of Helsinki is organising an international design competition for Kruunusillat (Crown Bridges). The purpose of the competition is to find in every respect a high-quality solution for an environment extremely demanding from the landscape and cultural-historical perspectives. The Kruunusillat bridges shall have a positive effect on Helsinki’s image and shall be a worthy legacy for future.
The teams chosen for the competition have been notified about their opportunity to participate. The final situation and the line-ups will be published later. There will also be a seminar for the participating teams, which will be held in the initial phase of the competition.
The competition is being organised as an international invited competition whose participants will be selected through an application procedure conforming to Finland’s public procurements legislation.
Helsinki has been selected as the World Design Capital 2012. The international design competition for the Kruunusillat bridges is one of Helsinki’s World Design Capital projects that will generate considerable international attention.
Kruunusillat will connect the city centre and a new island district
The Kruunusillat bridges are a traffic connection currently being designed between Kruununhaka and Kruunuvuorenranta in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. The main users of the Kruunusillat bridges will be trams, cyclists and pedestrians. The traffic connection shall also accommodate service and emergency vehicles.
Kruununhaka is an existing city district located on the eastern side of Helsinki’s city centre; Kruunuvuorenranta is a residential area currently being designed three kilometres further to the east, behind the Kruunuvuorenselkä sea area.
The competition task includes the conceptualisation and investigation at the outline plan level of the Kalasatama - Korkeasaari – Palosaari - Kruunuvuorenranta traffic connection. The connection between Kruununhaka and Kalasatama is not part of the competition area. The main emphasis of the task is the design of the connection between Kruunuvuorenranta and Palosaari.
