International Competition for the Architectural Landscape Design Concept for the Tuchkov Buyan Park in Saint Petersburg
International Competition for the Architectural Landscape Design Concept for the Tuchkov Buyan Park in Saint Petersburg
Context
Context






For more than a hundred years, Saint Petersburg residents have wished to see an urban park on Vatny Island. Today, the city has a unique opportunity to make this dream of several generations of Petersburgers come true and create a new, world-class landmark on the Petrograd side. Tuchkov Buyan will become the city's first park with direct river access and will offer new panoramic views of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Treasury ensemble, the Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island, the Admiralty, Saint Petersburg's drawbridges, and the Neva River itself. Thanks to the project, the city's green spaces will be united in a single, unbroken pedestrian route: from the Field of Mars and the Summer Garden via Trinity Square and Alexandrovsky Park to the islands. The embankment between Tuchkov and Treasury Bridges and Academic Likhachev Square will be transformed as well.

For more than a hundred years, Saint Petersburg residents have wished to see an urban park on Vatny Island. Today, the city has a unique opportunity to make this dream of several generations of Petersburgers come true and create a new, world-class landmark on the Petrograd side. Tuchkov Buyan will become the city's first park with direct river access and will offer new panoramic views of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Treasury ensemble, the Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island, the Admiralty, Saint Petersburg's drawbridges, and the Neva River itself. Thanks to the project, the city's green spaces will be united in a single, unbroken pedestrian route: from the Field of Mars and the Summer Garden via Trinity Square and Alexandrovsky Park to the islands. The embankment between Tuchkov and Treasury Bridges and Academic Likhachev Square will be transformed as well.

For more than a hundred years, Saint Petersburg residents have wished to see an urban park on Vatny Island. Today, the city has a unique opportunity to make this dream of several generations of Petersburgers come true and create a new, world-class landmark on the Petrograd side. Tuchkov Buyan will become the city's first park with direct river access and will offer new panoramic views of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Treasury ensemble, the Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island, the Admiralty, Saint Petersburg's drawbridges, and the Neva River itself. Thanks to the project, the city's green spaces will be united in a single, unbroken pedestrian route: from the Field of Mars and the Summer Garden via Trinity Square and Alexandrovsky Park to the islands. The embankment between Tuchkov and Treasury Bridges and Academic Likhachev Square will be transformed as well.
Palace Square
Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island
SPBGU
Peter and Paul Fortress
Yubileyny Sports Complex
Summer Garden
Field of Mars
St. Michael's
Castle
Alexandrovsky Garden
New Holland
St. Isaac Cathedral
Kazan Cathedral
Russian Museum
Church of the Savior on Blood
Moscow Railway Station
Leningrad Zoo
Spaso-Preobrazhensky
Cathedral
Alexandrovsky Park
Admiralty
Palace Square
Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island
SPBGU
Peter and Paul Fortress
Yubileyny Sports Complex
Summer Garden
Field of Mars
St. Michael's Castle
Alexandrovsky Garden
St. Isaac Cathedral
Kazan Cathedral
Russian Museum
Church of the Savior
on Blood
Leningrad Zoo
Alexandrovsky Park
Admiralty
Palace Square
Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island
SPBGU
Peter and Paul Fortress
Yubileyny Sports Complex
Summer Garden
Field of Mars
St. Michael's Castle
Alexandrovsky Garden
Russian Museum
Leningrad Zoo
Alexandrovsky Park
Admiralty
Palace Square
Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island
SPBGU
Peter and Paul Fortress
Yubileyny Sports Complex
Summer Garden
Field of Mars
St. Michael's Castle
Alexandrovsky Garden
Russian Museum
Leningrad Zoo
Alexandrovsky Park
Admiralty
The territory of the future park is located in the Petrograd region of Saint Petersburg, and is part of the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments UNESCO World Heritage Site, established in 1990. The site is within walking distance of the city’s key landmarks: Peter and Paul Fortress, the Rostral Columns of Vasilievsky Island, the Hermitage and Palace Square, the Admiralty, the Church of the Savior on Blood, the Russian Museum, St Isaac Cathedral, and others.
Organiser
Organiser

DOM.RF Foundation
The DOM.RF Foundation was established by DOM.RF Joint Stock Corporation in 2016. One of the main focuses of the Foundation’s activities is collaboration in creating comfortable living conditions and the formation of a pleasant urban environment. In compliance with an order from Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, and as part of the national Housing and Urban Environment project, the Foundation developed the Integrated Guidelines for Urban Development, a methodological guideline with recommendations on the development and realisation of housing construction projects in redevelopment or new construction conditions, as well as under planned construction on new territories and the development of open public spaces. As part of the Guidelines' pilot programme, the Foundation already created urban redevelopment projects for public spaces in 46 cities, with an overall area of 1,500 hectares.
Operator
Operator

Strelka KB
Strelka KB is a leading Russian company offering strategic consulting services in the field of urban development. Since 2013, Strelka KB helps cities develop their spaces, economies, management and technologies based on the demands of their residents. The company develops comprehensive solutions for improving mobility, ecology and sustainability of the urban environment and the quality and accessibility of housing. An important field of the company’s work is the organisation of architectural competitions, which help put Russian cities on the international agenda.

Strelka KB’s work has received international recognition and a series of awards, including the Urban Land Institute Awards 2019, ISOCARP Awards 2018, Qatar Sustainability Awards 2018 and LILA Awards 2018.
Partner of the Competition Operator
Partner of the Competition Operator

The European University in Saint Petersburg is the intellectual partner of the competition operator, Strelka KB, in conducting the competition
The European University at Saint Petersburg was founded in 1994. It began with masters programmes in the social sciences and humanities (anthropology, history, art history, political science, sociology, and economics). Today, students at EUSP can study in those six departments and in three international programmes as well. Within the University, there are 15 research centres in various fields, from the problems of law enforcement to humane urbanism. EUSP is constantly featured among the country's top ten universities in subject ratings for university research productivity by the Expert analytics centre. In 2018, EUSP received the highest score in demand for its research work.