Submission: October 1, 2013
Registration: October 1, 2013
Language: English or Norwegian
Location: Bodø, Norway
Prizes: A total of NOK1.500.000 (€187.000) in prizes
Type: Open competition for architects.
Open design competition for the new City Hall for the Norwegian city of Bodø in cooperation with National Association of Norwegian Architects.
The total floor area is approx. 11.000 m2. The project value is approx. 506 000 000 NOK. Bodø municipality’s, henceforth referred to as the Awarding Authority, administration with 400 employees shall be co-located in the new city hall Presently the City Hall district comprises 3 distinctive buildings. This includes the existing city hall designed by the architects Blakstad og Munthe-Kaas; inaugurated in 1959, a library designed by the same architects; inaugurated in 1967, as well as the Bank designed by Kristoffer Lange; inaugurated in 1950. The existing city hall and the Bank shall be renovated, whilst the library is allowed removed and replaced with a new building in the back yard.
The tender competition is challenging, both in relation to architectural design, but also in relation to the demand that the new building shall be flexible and have a good functional conjunction with the existing city hall building
