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Prague 4 August 2025 - Road and Motorway Directorate (RMD) enters the final phase of the selection of a new bridge over the Vltava River in the section of the Prague Ring D0 519 Suchdol - Brezineves. The expert jury of the international architectural competition selected the five best designs from a total of fifteen submitted works. The RMD now selects from this five on the basis of defined criteria - for example technical feasibility sustainability and estimated investment and operating costs - one proposal for implementation which becomes the basis of the project documentation for building permit (DPS).
View Gallery (5) The selected bridge will become a key element of the northern part of the Prague Ring Road. The proposed solution bridges the Vltava valley with a bridge building with almost 600 long and 80 meters high above the surface of the river. The bridging counts on three lanes in each direction including pedestrian and cycling. The estimated investment costs are two billion crowns without VAT.
The international architectural competition was organized by the Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic. The competition conditions were approved by the Czech Chamber of Architects (CKA). The total budget for prices and rewards is 20 million crowns. With the maximum award -winning proposal the jury will receive 5 million crowns.
Order according to the jury (five from which the RMD selects a proposal for implementation):
1.
2. Wallbek
3. Cowi Czech Republic
4. Association 2T Engineering and Top Con SERVICE
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This international competition was the first open architectural competition of its kind to the highway bridge in the Czech Republic says Radek Matl CEO of the RMD. The results that the jury decided to have confirmed to us that expert teams from the Czech Republic and abroad entered the competition. Now we have the hardest task - to choose the only solution that combines top architecture with economic and technical balance. Radek Matl. We will introduce all proposals to the public at the planned exhibition. The deadline and venue will be specified in the near future concludes Radek Matl.
Procedure
* August - September 2025: Selection of variant for the next process of building construction
* October 2025 - January 2026: DPS concept processing
* February - May 2026: DPS Clean Mograph processing
* December 2026: submitting an application for a building permit
* 2027-2031: Expected implementation of the bridge as part of the completion of the Prague Ring Road in the section Suchdol - Brezineves
The completion of the Prague Ring Road
The Prague circuit will be 83.6 km long after its completion. Half of the route is already in operation. The Bechovice - D1 section (D0 511) is implemented. Northern sections Ruzyne - Suchdol (D0 518) Suchdol - Brezineves (D0 519) and Brezineves - Satalice (D0 520) are being prepared. The bridge over the Vltava River will be the most prominent building of the whole circuit. It will also ensure a new connection for pedestrians and cyclists between the left (Suchdol Sedlec) and the right bank of the Vltava (chateaux Bohnice Cimice). Plans for the bridge in this locality date back to the 30s of the 20th century when a similar bridge was planned as part of the outer highway circuit of Prague.
