Category: Participation Requirements

Question 38

Our Czech based company would like to make an association with a foreign company outside EEA in order to fulfil the requirements for matador architects. Is it necessary to make the association legally before submitting the prequalification portfolio? If that so what kind of registration of Association is accepted and when it must be done?

It is necessary that the agreement on establishment of an association (in the meaning of Section 2716 of the Czech Civil Code) exists upon submission of the portfolio as by the submission a participant assumes the obligation to participate in the competition and carry out the work.

Question 28

Could you elaborate on Article 5, section 5.8 in order to understand the safeguards afforded to the Contractor and how they would be carried out, which seems to be limited in the language used:

(Without the prior written consent of the Client, the Contractor may not assign any claim against the Client arising from this Contract. …Without the prior written consent of the Client, the Contractor may not unilaterally set off any claim arising from the subject matter of the contractual relationship which the Contractor has against the Client.)

The Client wishes to avoid that any claims of the Contractor from the Contract are assigned to a third party or set off without an agreement with the Client. This is a standard clause required to be present in all contracts entered into by the Client.

Question 27

Is it possible to submit a request for participation in open call as an architectural office (authors) and then, in the first, respectively second round (or after competition), eventually enter into a contractual relationship with a Client in an association with an engineering office?

Yes, it is possible: to be selected in the Open Call based on your architectural experience and enter the next stage of the competition in association with an engineering office. Partially this has been answered as Question 1.

Question 26

Would these projects be considered as non-monofunctional type buildings:
– offices above ground and parking underground;
– media library including: a library, a centre for new media, an agora for children, multi-purpose rooms etc.;
– apartment tower with public facilities on the ground floor (spa, gymnasium) and underground parking?

Yes, these types of projects would be considered as non-monofunctional type buildings.

Question 24

As Emerging Professionals, we will list in our portfolio a project corresponding to 4.2 b) and two projects corresponding to 4.2 c). Does it matter which order we present the projects in? (Section 6 of the regulations would seem to suggest that for an Emerging Professional entry – the 2nd page would be an unrealised project, 3rd page would be a realised project and the 4th page would be an unrealised project – is it important to organise them in this order?)

The order does not matter for the purpose of evaluation. You can present your projects in the order you find the most suitable.

Question 23

Our team responds to the requirements as follows:
1) We have completed the design and the construction of a building corresponding to letter 4.2 a);
2) In our portfolio, we do not have a building in category 4.2 b), even though we have designed and built other buildings with less than 5000 square meters;
3) we have completed several studies or competition proposals (category 4.2 c)).
In which category are we? Matador architects or emerging architects? How do we fill the different pages of the projects listed in section 6.1.1.?

In this case, list yourself as matador architects. In the project requirement 4.2 b), provide a project that corresponds to 4.2 c). The jury will be notified of this situation and will be left with the final decision, to which category you belong.

Question 19

Are we allowed to present our entry as a group with another architectural office?

Yes, it is possible. Please see point 4.1 that states “The competition may be entered by any individuals or entities, separately or in association […].”

Question 15

Is it acceptable for architects who are working as employees to submit their pre-qualification as individuals and participate with their own name and not through the company they work for?

This is probably an issue you need to work out with your employer. Regarding this issue from our side, it is mainly important that you are fully competent and able to enter into legal contract and deliver all the services that the announcer expects.

Question 14

Are the citizens of candidate countries to EEA, such as Turkey, eligible to enter this competition?

If you are not citizens or your practice is not registered in EEA or Switzerland, we would suggest that you team up with architects that fulfil this criteria, and enter this competition together in association.

Question 10

The information on how many and which projects to include in the portfolio of an Emerging Professional appears three times on the web (in About the Competition, and in points 4.2 and 6.1 of the regulations) and seems to differ each time. Could you clarify?

Please, follow closely the point 6.1 of the Competition Regulations. To put it simple, a portfolio will contain three reference projects. The Matador Architects will present projects following points 4.2 a), b) and c). The Emerging Professionals will present projects following either points 4.2 b), b) and c), or points 4.2 b), c) and c).

Question 1

Should we compete as a team (architects + engineers) or should we compete as architectural office alone at first and add engineers as subcontractors later?

You should compete as architectural office – the quality and potential of architectural office, respectively quality of architectural and urban design is judged in the competition stage of the CSHQ project. Engineering will be dealt with after the competition.