Artistic Competition of the KVB Kà¶lner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG
Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sà¼d Stadtbahn Kà¶ln)
Call for entries – Submission Deadline: 31 July 2007
The KVB Kà¶lner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (the public transport company of the city of Cologne) have initiated an international art competition for the artistic design of eight stations – seven below and one above ground – of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sà¼d Stadtbahn Kà¶ln). In two resolutions of the Cologne City Council, the KVB were commissioned to organize the competition, which was launched on 18 May 2007 with the international call for submissions.
National and international artists are to be involved in this multi-stage international art
competition. Through the artistic design of the stations, the “city below” shall be made accessible for both Cologne’s inhabitants and its visitors as a new place of discovery which sensitizes us for associating with art, and at the same time makes an important contribution to the discussion about topics of urban living – the “city before our eyes”. The financial means for the competition, including the realisation of the art works, amount to 1.75 million Euros.
For further information please consult the section Kunst/Art at:
http://www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de
2 comments
It would be great if the TTC could do this for its new Transit City light rail lines. That would be amazing!
The TTC etc. need to be open to new ideas not just about the “look”, but also the routes.
The Transit City is relative progress, yet it has a couple of less-great ideas. We also need to enable alt visions of what we are/look like for decades beyond the “look”. Truly, we are officially poised to build a subway in a suburb (Spadina extension) and a high-cost highway in the core (the Front St. Ext.) – and if we rethought some basics maybe we could invest way more in the “look” than now.