The designs represent a wide range of styles, including enclosed, arched and cable-stayed structures. The teams on the shortlist are known, but the entries were submitted under pseudonyms and so are currently anonymous.
Above: entry codename Debet Semper Plus Esse Virium In Vectores Quam In Onere
Above: entry codename Unda Arctica
Above: entry codename Septum Fratres
The competition jury will select the winner during the spring.
Helsinki launched the competition in 2011. More than 50 teams applied and a shortlist was selected for the actual competition phase.
The teams – in alphabetical order – are:
- Apia XXI, Spain
- Arup, Netherlands
- Carlos Fernández Casado, Spain
- Insinööritoimisto Pontek, Finland
- Knippers Helbig GmbH, Germany
- Ove Arup & Partners International, UK
- Roughan & O'Donovan, Ireland
- Schüssler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft Berlin, Germany
- Setec tpi, France
- WSP Finland, Finland
If implemented, the bridge connection for trams and pedestrians and cyclists would be the longest in Finland, at approximately 3km. The connection, composed of two or more bridges, would link the future Kruunuvuorenranta district to Helsinki city centre.
Above: entry codename Filum Lucis
Above: entry codename Gemma Regalis
Above: entry codename Hyperborea
Above: entry codename Nexu
Above: entry codename Occursus
Above: entry codename Oculus
Above: entry codename Recreatio Maritimus
Above: entry codename Ventus
More images of the competition entries can be viewed online at http://laituri.hel.fi/fi/node/550/image_gallery
