An international urban planning competition is being prepared in Ostrava

For the upcoming international public-combined urban design competition for the proposal of revitalization of the Černá louka area in Ostrava, a jury has been appointed consisting of: Ing. arch. Josef Pleskot, mgr. Cyril Říha Ph.D., doc. akad. arch. Imro Vaško, ing. arch. Adam Gebrian, ing. arch. Jan Sedlák, ing. arch. Zdeněk Fránek, ing. arch. Ivo Koukol, ing. arch. Ján Štempel, ing. arch. Vlastimil Bichler, ing. Petr Kajnar, mgr. Lubomír Pospíšil, ing. Zdeněk Trejbal, Ph.D. and ing. arch. Cyril Vltavský. The jury met at its inaugural session on January 21, 2010, discussed and approved the competition conditions, and elected Josef Pleskot as its chairman. At the same time, it reached out to architectural studios OMA AMO HQ ROTTERDAM, HERZOG&MEURON BASEL Ltd., BIG BJIRKE ENGELS GROUP, FOA FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS, and SANAA KAZUYO SEJIMA+RYUE NISHIZAWA with an invitation to participate in the competition in the "invited" category. The competition conditions will be available on the website of the Petr Parléř Society next week.