Current state	January 30, 2025 Following a constructive jury colloquium, which took place on 20 January in Düsseldorf, the competition documents were issued to the participants on 30 January 2025. December 12, 2024 The council of the state capital Düsseldorf decided by a large majority to hold the competition for the opera house of the future at the Am Wehrhahn site. September 2, 2024 On September 2, a change notice to the procedure was published, which was issued in the EU Official Journal on September 4. The change notice was necessary because the composition of the jury has changed. July 31, 2024 The competition procedure was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 31, 2024. Interested parties are able to apply for participation on this website up to and including September 11, 2024.
Promoter	IPM Immobilien Projekt Management Düsseldorf GmbH Henkelstraße 164 40589 Düsseldorf represented by Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Labbert, Technical Managing Director Michael Köhler, Technical Managing Director Manfred Kornfeld, Commercial Managing Director Project Leader ODZ: Roland Baumann On behalf of Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (State Capital) Der Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) Department of Culture and Integration Zollhof 13 40221 Düsseldorf
Type of competiton	The procedure will be carried out as a restricted, two-stage realization competition in accordance with Sections 69 et seq., Sections 78 et seq. VgV [Procurement Ordinance] and Section 3 (3), 4 RPW 2013, followed by a negotiation procedure without a pre-qualification procedure in accordance with Section 14 (4) No. 8 VgV. The competition is aimed at general planners (architects and landscape architects together with specialist planners) and will be held anonymously. The names of the participants in stage 2 will only be made known to the members of the jury and the promoter after the jury has reached its decision in the stage 2. The language of the procedure is German. The contractor provides individual documents in the competition procedure in English (as a service). The German version shall remain binding in this case, too.
Jury	Architectural jurors: Univ. Prof. Brian Cody Engineer, Graz Andreas Cukrowicz Architect, Graz Prof. Hannelore Deubzer Architect, Berlin/München Heiner Farwick Architect, Ahaus Jochen Kral Urban planner, Head of Department for Mobility, State Capital Düsseldorf Prof. Regula Lüscher Architect, Winterthur Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Mark Engineer, Dortmund Wesko Rohde Master craftsman for event technology, Oldenburg Dorothée Schneider Architect, City Treasurer, State Capital Düsseldorf Prof. Katinka Temme Architect, Augsburg Prof. Anca Timofticiuc Architect, Berlin Robin Winogrond Landscape architect, Zürich Cornelia Zuschke Architect, Head of Department for Planning, Building, Housing and Real Estate, State Capital Düsseldorf General jurors: Dr. Stephan Keller Lord Mayor, State Capital Düsseldorf Miriam Koch Head of Department for Culture and Integration, State Capital Düsseldorf Alexandra Stampler-Brown Managing Director Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Labbert Managing Director, IPM Düsseldorf GmbH Dr. Alexander Fils CDU parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Clara Gerlach Bündnis90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Markus Raub SPD parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Manfred Neuenhaus FDP parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Sigrid Lehmann Die Linke parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Wolf-Rüdiger Jörres AFD parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Christopher Schrage PARTEI Klima parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf Alexander Führer Tierschutz / FREIE WÄHLER parliamentary group, Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf
Assessment procedure during the competition	All entries accepted for assessment will be assessed on the basis of the published criteria. The jury reserves the right to differentiate between the specified criteria and to weight them, however, the order of the criteria specified below does not represent a hierarchy. All sub-criteria relate holistically to the sustainability of the design concepts. • Design idea • Urban design • Building and open space design • Interior and exterior space quality • Functionality and accessibility • Performance and program fulfillment • Consideration of indoor climate requirements • Energy • Building construction and technical equipment of the building • Economic feasibility in terms of construction and operation • Suitability for the issuance of permissions
Fees and prizes	The promoter will provide the total amount of 2,640,000 euro (net) for fees paid as compensation for expenses incurred and prizes. In stage 1 of the realization competition, a total amount of 1,320,000 euro (net) will be paid out in equal shares as a lump-sum fee paid as compensation for the expenses to all participants who submit a verifiable entry in accordance with the competition requirements of stage 1. In stage 2, a total amount of 700,000 euro (net) will be paid out in equal shares as a lump-sum fee paid as compensation for the expenses to all participants who submit a verifiable entry in accordance with the competition requirements of stage 2. The fee paid as compensation for the expenses is granted irrespective of the prizes awarded. In addition, a total of 620,000 euro (net) shall be awarded as prizes with the following distribution of the prizes: • 1st prize: 250.000 euro • 2nd prize: 185.000 euro • 3rd prize: 125.000 euro • 4th prize: 60.000 euro
Participants	In the selection procedure preceding the realization competition, the IPM examines the preliminary suitability of the eligible applicants on the basis of an application for participation to be submitted by the applicants. On the basis of an evaluation of the references submitted, it will determine a ranking of the applicants. It selects the best 18 to 24 applicants for participation in the realization competition. A further six participants are selected through the preceding urban design ideas competition, provided they meet the suitability requirements set out in this procedure.
Participants selected in advance	The following six participants have been preselected as they are the authors of the designs that won prizes in the preceding urban planning ideas competition and have been invited to take part: christoph ingenhoven architects gmbh, Düsseldorf, and West 8 urban design & landscape architecture b.v., Rotterdam gmp International GmbH, Berlin, and POLA Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Berlin Henning Larsen Architects A/S, Kopenhagen, and Meyer Architekten GmbH, Düsseldorf HPP Generalplanung GmbH, Düsseldorf, and Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten, Dresden Prof. Jörg Friedrich Studio PFP GmbH, Hamburg, and Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, München Snøhetta Oslo AS, Oslo
Eligibility	According to Section 4 (1) RPW 2013, such individuals shall be eligible to participate as general planners who are resident in the EEA and in the countries of the contracting parties to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and who, on the day of the announcement of the competition, are entitled to use the occupational title "architect" pursuant to the legal provisions of their country of residence applicable on the day of the announcement of the competition and who are self-employed, free-lance professionals. For the application, the architect had to nominate a team of at least one landscape architect, one engineer for technical equipment and one engineer for structural planning who, on the day of the announcement of the competition, are entitled to use the occupational title "landscape architect" or "engineer" in accordance with the legal pro-visions of their country of residence applicable on the day of the announcement of the competition and who are self-employed, freelance professionals or are employed by the architect of the application. Proof of the right to use the occupational title "engineer" can be provided both structural engineers and engineers for technical equipment, for example, by proof of membership in a chamber of engineers in Germany or in a chamber of engineers in the licensing area and additionally for engineers for structural engineering in accordance with the authorization defined in Section 54 (4) BauO NRW 2018. Proof of the self-employed and freelance activity of engineers for technical equipment and structural planning can be provided, for example, by submitting evidence of their entitlement to use the occupational title "consulting engineer". Individuals from countries where the occupational title “Architect” is not subject to statutory regulations shall be eligible, provided that they hold a degree or submit any other evidence of formal qualification that is recognized in the EU under 2013/55/EU (EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications). Also eligible for participation shall be design consortia consisting of individuals, legal entities if their statutory corporate purpose includes planning activities in accordance with the competition task, and design consortia of such legal entities where the authorized representative to be appointed and the author of the competition entry meet the aforementioned professional requirements that are placed on individuals.
Impediments to participation	Impediments to participation are those described in Section 4 (2) RPW 2013 and Sections 6 and 7 VgV. Other statutory grounds for exclusion remain unaffected.
Further elaboration of the design	In order to implement the project, IPM, provided that it is commissioned by LHD to do so and while taking into account the recommendation of the jury and the requirements set out in Section 8 (2) RPW 2013 and the requirements of the VgV, will commission one of the prizewinners, usually the winner, with further services, in particular in accordance with Art. 34 HOAI 2021 (project planning of buildings and interiors), Art. 39 HOAI 2021 (project planning of outdoor [open air] facilities), Art. 51 HOAI 2021 (specialist planning: structural planning) and Art. 55 HOAI 2021 (specialist planning of the technical equipment, facility groups 1 to 8) and the necessary further services for co-ordinating the specialist planners (general planning), provided that there is no other important reason to prevent the (further) commissioning. The commissioning will take place in stages. The first commissioning step is expected to comprise the services of service phases 2 and 3 in accordance with Art. 34 or Art. 39 or Art. 55 or Art. 51 HOAI 2021. The second commissioning step will include the services of service phase 4 and the third commissioning step will include the services of service phases 5 and 6 (both partially, if applicable) in accordance with Art. 34 or Art. 39 or Art. 55 or Art. 51 HOAI 2021. The client reserves the right to commission further service phases up to and including service phase 8 of the HOAI. The general planner receives a fixed lump-sum fee for his/her services, which is divided into partial lump sums for the individual commissioning steps. Section 8 (2) RPW 2013 is taken into account in the manner that, if the complete implementation planning and the service phases 6 to 8 HOAI are not required due to the type of the awarding of the contract or if such planning is not commissioned for other reasons, the client will ensure that the architectural quality of the competition design is implemented by appropriately commissioning the prizewinner. This usually includes the commissioning of lead details, plan release, specification, assessment of bids and quality control.
Dates	Online Forum Application Procedure July 31, to September 4, 2024 Deadline for application September 11, 2024 Selection committee October, 2024 Jury colloquium January 20, 2025 Distribution of materials, stage 1 January 30, 2025 Online forum stage 1 January 30, to February 21, 2025 Participants' colloquium, stage 1 February 11, 2025 Submission of entries, stage 1 April 17, 2025 Submission of models, stage 1 April 24, 2025 Jury meeting, stage 1 May 27 and 28, 2025 Participants' working period, stage 2 expected June to September, 2025 (approx. 12 weeks) Jury meeting stage 2 expected November, 2025
	In case of contradiction of information provided on this website and the competition brief, the information given in the competition brief shall prevail.