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The jury’s decision is next presented as it has been recorded in the official report which has been submitted at the end of the judging process.

The jury has taken into consideration the difficulty of the design brief, as well as its major interest in finding possible means of intervention within the centre of the city, in areas of great cultural values gained in time.

It is to be regretted the small number of submissions despite the fact that public and professional interest in this matter is in reality much higher.

Given the contest idea revealed by the question “What do you place next to Mincu ?”, the jury’s conclusion  is that more than one  approach is possible as long as it responds to the evaluation criteria as a whole.

For the final stage, projects no 23, 27, 34 have been selected. Taking into consideration the fact that none of these projects has convincingly met all evaluation criteria, and at the same time, a series of qualities worth mentioning have been distinguished among these projects, the jury has decided to award three mention awards, bringing the following arguments.

Project no 23

The project has been noticed due to the quality of the architectural insertion within the urban tissue and its contemporary architectural vocabulary. Applying a rigid spatial and functional pattern was, however, considered unjustified and led to the solution’s excessively conditioning.

Project no 27

This project has been noticed for its sensitive urban intervention and its keeping the traditional character of the area. However, the architectural vocabulary was not considered adequate to a contemporary intervention. With regard to the economic efficiency criteria, the solution does not reach its urbanistic potential. (Urbanistic indicators)

Project no 34

The jury has noticed the quality of the solution with regard to functionality, the relationship between old and new, the architectural vocabulary and the quality of the insertion overall. Still, the solution proposed for the corner of the composition was seen as formally exaggerated and not sufficiently justified with regard to functionality.

Project no 23 is assigned to stud.arh.Laia MARTINEZ, stud.arh. Xavier LOZANO SEGARRA – Mention Award
Project no 27 is assigned to autor: intern arh Mihai SULEA. Coauthors: Ruxandra SACALIS, Sabin PURICE – Mention Award
Project no 34 is assigned to intern arh Petru Mihnea DRAGOIU. Colabarator:  arh Matei BOGOESCU – Out of competition

During the following procedures which involve lifting the anonymity and project verification, regulatory violations have been noted with regard to project no 34. Therefore, it has been decided that this project is withdrawn from the competition and will not be awarded a mention award.

Each of the two projects, no 23 and 27, will be awarded a mention award 200 Euro worth.