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News • Helsinki • Finland • 2011-10-30

Bullhorn – Cembrit Design Competition

In Bullhorn – Cembrit Design Competition we are developing Malmi Station, one of Helsinki’s biggest suburban transit areas, into an outstanding and experimental landmark that will improve the quality of life for thousands of urban commuters each day.

Stations and transit hubs are important both functionally and as identity-building elements in urban environments. The city dwellers spent a significant part of their day connected to various transit hubs. These areas are often worn out and unappealing non-places.

Architects and designers are invited to participate in an open international design competition to reinvent the use of fibre-cement as a material in urban environments. The competition brief is related to transit areas and the station area of Malmi in Helsinki is the location where the competition proposals are to be placed.

Entrants are asked to think about the “Arrival to Malmi” by 5 different means: train, bus, car, bicycle and walking. We invite ideas-level proposals to be submitted in the competition to be evaluated by a distinguished international jury. The jury will select the top 3 proposals to be further developed into prototypes, to be re-assessed before the final order is decided. The winning proposals will be realized as prototypes to be presented in an exhibition in May 2012.

The competition is organised by Cembrit.

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