Sirius Waterfront Winner

LandLAB has won an international competition to develop an urban master plan and public realm concept for the 7.5km long Imeretinskaya Embankment adjacent the 2014 Olympic site in Sochi, Russia. 

Sixty-eight teams from 48 countries took part in the competition. LandLAB was named a finalist in October last year along with high profile international firms BIG (Denmark), !melk (USA), Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (France), LOLA (Netherlands) and AB Chvoya (Russia). The team led by BIG came second in the competition, with the LOLA team placing third. 

Our approach was founded on a reading of the tectonics of the existing landscape and an acknowledgement of the need to create places, identity, built form and experiences that expressed the specific qualities of Sirius. “With a series of dynamic locations and ecosystems of maximum activity, exchange and hybridisation, we see a transition in the way of understanding the existing waterfront from a linear ‘promenade’ to seeing it as a wider maritime interface. An expanded and re-imagined ‘front’ where the city can express its traditions, expand its uses and discover new potentials”.

“The winning concept is distinguished by an environmentally oriented approach, attention to the cultural and historical context of our territory and the functionality of the space. We are very pleased that the opinion of the jury members coincided with ours, and the concept that meets both of these criteria won.” - Elena Shmeleva, Chairman of the Council of the Federal Territory of Sirius.