Sofia’s New City Center to be designed by Dominique Perrault

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French architect Dominique Perrault has been selected to design the new city center of Bulgaria’s capital . The city center will be built in the next ten years and will house various state institutions. The center will be located along ’s main boulevard “Tsarigradsko Shosse”. The vision of Bulgarian prime minister Sergei Stanishev and his brother – architect Georgii Stanishev – is to gather ministries and state agencies in the new “ city”, relocated from the current center of .

Perrault was selected among six practices, all of them world architectural design leaders including Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, and Massimiliano Fuksas. Two Bulgarian firms also participated in the final stages of the contest.

Seen at Bustler. More images of Perrault, Foster and Hadid’s proposals after the break.

 
 

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