A specialised team from HAVEL & PARTNERS provided full-service administration of an international architectural competition in which the design of the future first high-speed railway terminal in the Czech Republic was selected.

The firm’s partner Josef Hlavička and senior associate Kamila Kulhánková from the specialised public sector team not only provided legal advice but also ensured the overall organisation of the competition, including communication with the jury, competition participants and the participation of expert advisors.

The aim of the competition was to select an architectural and urbanistic design for the future construction of the new railway terminal Prague East, which will form part of the first ever high-speed railway line in the Czech Republic and which is to become an important transfer hub on the line between Prague and Brno and Prague and Hradec Králové.

The winning design was selected by a professional jury of architects and representatives of Správa železnic and the municipality of Nehvizdy, where the project will be implemented, from a total of 21 accepted competition designs submitted by Czech and international architectural studios.

The winning design was submitted jointly by MP + ov Nehvizdy 2020. The authors of the winning design are high-profile architects Jiří Opočenský and Štěpán Valouch from the ov-a studio (holders of the 2020 Czech Architecture Award) and Petr Malinovský and Petr Vyskočil from METROPROJEKT Praha.

Following an architectural competition for the design of the Veleslavín railway station in Prague, this is the second competition HAVEL & PARTNERS has successfully organised for Správa železnic.