Downtown cultural centre Architecture Competition

Tartu city government in cooperation with the Estonian Association of Architects will organize the international architecture competition for the Tartu downtown cultural centre. Architects from all over the world are invited to design one of the most important future cultural spaces in the second biggest city of Estonia, in the very heart of university town Tartu.

The purpose of the competition is to find the best architectural design for the building and outdoor space of the cultural centre, which suits the given location and milieu the most and creates a whole with the urban space along the river Emajõgi.

Participants are invited to design a building for city library, art museum, event centre with multifunctional black-box and other activities supporting the cultural centre with a biologically diverse and active park and human scale public space.

News

• January 2, 2023: The architecture competition was announced. Press release.
• January 16, 2023: Opening seminar of the architecture competition, where the competition's objectives and conditions were presented.
  • Recordings: Watch the broadcast I Photos by Mana Kaasik
  • Presentations: Tartu Public Library I Tartu Art Museum I City Architect I Architecture competition
• May 5, 2023: Submission deadline of the architecture competition. 105 entries were submitted. Press release
• May 29, 2023: In the architecture competition for the Downtown Cultural Centre, 102 competition projects reached the jury for evaluation. Press release
• July 3, 2023: Six best projects for the Downtown Cultural Centre architecture competition have been revealed. Press release