OSTRAVA CONCERT HALL

For many decades, the City of Ostrava has been striving to build a concert hall with perfect acoustics, top technical facilities and sufficiently large auditorium. The City aims to build a high-quality concert hall, whose technical parameters will be unparalleled in the Czech Republic. It is going to be built as part of the Ostrava House of Culture. For many years, the Ostrava House of Culture has struggled to become meaningfully involved in contemporary cultural life. Most of the cultural spaces are used for a purpose other than that which was originally intended. Historically, the “House of Culture of Vítkovice Ironworks and Engineering Works of Klement Gottwald” (today Ostrava House of Culture – DKMO), designed by architect Jaroslav Fragner, is an immovable cultural monument located at a major city avenue of 28. října connecting the City centre with City Districts of Mariánské Hory and Poruba. At the same time, it is surrounded by a large park – Milada Horáková Park, which is an important landscape element. The City believes that the the House of Culture plus the construction of a new concert hall, whose operation will require a complete renovation of the House of Culture, will bring about its revival and new use, which will ensure the preservation of its architectural values and new involvement in the city’s cultural life.

The competition therefore concerns the design of an architectural and urbanistic solution, which in conjunction with the cultural monument will allow the construction of a state-of-the-art concert hall and the overall revitalization of the House of Culture. With regard to the architectural design of the House of Culture and its monument protection, as well as the existence of a significant landscape element, which together do not allow for significant building alterations inside the House of Culture or unrestricted development of the lands in its vicinity, the City Authority expects a sensitive annex/extension to the House of Culture with acceptable volume. The aim of the Contracting Authority is the maximum possible use of the House of Culture for all the servicing functions and facilities connected with the operation of the concert hall, with the annex/extension being used for the servicing functions only to the necessary minimum. There is no need to keep the adjacent amphitheatre.

Request to participate shall be submitted in a sealed envelope marked in accordance with the competition terms at the address: Magistrát města Ostravy, Prokešovo nám. 8, 729 30 Ostrava, podatelna (určeno pro odbor ÚHA a SŘ) by 21 September 2018.

Submission of the competition proposals – first phase

The Contracting Authority shall invite selected participants to submit proposals and inform participants who have been excluded by the expected date of 29 October 2018. When the invitation is sent, the time limit for submission of proposals begins. The last possible date for the submission of a competition proposal, i.e. the deadline for the submission of proposals, is 1 February 2019 at 1pm.

Visit to the competition location will take place on 6 September 2018 and 7 September 2018 with the Contracting Authority’s commentary. Interested parties shall meet each time at 1pm before the main entrance to the Ostrava House of Culture.

For the participants selected in the first phase of the competition, another tour will take place on 8 November 2018 at 1pm before the main entrance to the Ostrava House of Culture.

Participants may request an explanation of the competition terms until 1pm on 16 November 2018.

The Contracting Authority shall publish the explanation of the competition terms on the Contracting Authority’s profile at least 50 days before the end of the time limit for the submission of proposals.

Applicants can send requests for clarification of the competition terms only in writing to the email address concert-hall-ostrava@ostrava.cz

Participants may request an explanation of the competition terms until 1pm on 16 November 2018.

The Contracting Authority shall publish the explanation of the competition terms on the Contracting Authority’s profile at least 50 days before the end of the time limit for the submission of proposals.

The course of the second phase will be specified and will be sent, together with the invitation and other documents, to the competitor advancing to the second phase. The time limit for the submission of proposals for the second phase is expected to be at least 60 days.

The competition terms and competition documents are available on the Contracting Authority’s profile at https://verejnezakazky.ostrava.cz/detail/11973