With the »District of the Generations« competition, the city of Schorndorf, a medium-sized center with about 40,000 inhabitants in the Rems-Murr district, is planning an urban development extension of the »suburb« to the north of the train station. The purpose of the competition is to restructure urban development and design an open space concept based on that development to repurpose the area of the former train station in Schorndorf into a liveable residential district. It is directed towards interdisciplinary applicants or interdisciplinary applicant consortia that cover the specialist disciplines of urban development and landscape architecture. The awarding authority shall offer a total net amount of 48,000 € for the competition. 20,000 € are reserved for the 1st Prize winner.

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DB Netz AG is implementing the construction of new noise barriers. An interdisciplinary design competition for art, urban planning, architecture, engineering and research will be held in order to meet the complex requirements. The organizers are looking for innovative, visionary and quickly realisable concepts and models for the inner-city integration or compensation of noise reduction measures for the city of Düsseldorf. The competition is an interdisciplinary, non-open, single-phase ideas competition for teams of artists, architects, urban and landscape planners and civil engineers, as well as other disciplines freely chosen by the teams (e.g. biologists, industrial designers, ecologists) with a preliminary open prequalification.

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