Daejeon City, Daejeon Art Park Planning and Design International Competition

8 Domestic and International Architect Teams Participate in Competition
Outstanding Teams Selected Through Public Review
Preliminary Administrative Procedures to Begin This Fall

Daejeon City announced on the 19th that it will proceed with the (tentative name) Daejeon Art Park planning and design competition until April 29.

Daejeon Art Park will be developed centered around a music-exclusive performance hall and the construction of the 2nd Municipal Art Museum in Jungchon Neighborhood Park. The planning and design competition will be an international invited competition, inviting architects from both domestic and overseas. Eight teams, recruited in January, are expected to participate in the competition.

From abroad, four teams including Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan), Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Italy), UN Studio (Netherlands), and Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) will participate. Domestically, architectural firms SOA Co., Ltd., The System Lab Architects Co., Ltd., SKM Design Co., Ltd., and Unsaengdong Architects Co., Ltd. will each participate.

All eight teams are known as architectural firms recognized globally for their expertise. Notably, the lead architects of two overseas teams (Renzo Piano and the late Zaha Hadid) have been awarded the Pritzker Prize, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture.

Daejeon City plans to hold a presentation event for citizens in early May and conduct a public review. At the presentation, all eight participating teams will attend to reveal the master plan for Daejeon Art Park as well as the architectural designs for the music-exclusive performance hall and the 2nd Municipal Art Museum.

After the public review, one outstanding master plan team and four outstanding teams for the architectural designs of the music-exclusive performance hall and the 2nd Municipal Art Museum (four teams each) will be selected. The outstanding teams for the music-exclusive performance hall and the 2nd Municipal Art Museum architectural designs may overlap.

Once the competition process is completed, based on the selected master plan, feasibility analysis and review will be conducted to establish a project plan draft. Preliminary administrative procedures are expected to proceed step-by-step starting in the second half of this year.

Previously, Daejeon City introduced a new approach of ‘design first, project planning later’ to create premium architectural works. This was first applied in June last year to the music-exclusive performance hall and the 2nd Municipal Art Museum as a pilot architectural design project.

Lee Jang-woo, Mayor of Daejeon, expressed his ambition, saying, “Like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, we will build a world-class architectural work so that both domestic and international tourists can visit Daejeon to see the architecture.”

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