The plan for Hradec will be created by architects Vymetálek and Kotas

Hradec Králové - The new zoning plan for the city of Hradec Králové, which has a population of one hundred thousand, will be developed according to the proposal by architects Tomáš Vymetálek and Patrik Kotas. The city council and the representatives today confirmed the conclusions of the expert jury, which selected both architects as the winners of the competition for the conceptual design of the new zoning plan for the city.
    The zoning plan is a fundamental document for the development of the city, and the idea was to establish possible directions for its development until 2050. The competition received proposals from 19 teams of architects from both the Czech Republic and abroad. So far, the city and investors are following the zoning plan from the year 2000.
    According to the jury members, the winning proposal sensitively develops the current circular layout of the city established by the plan of Josef Gočár from the first half of the 20th century. The development axis is envisioned to extend westward towards the Kukleny area towards the D11 highway. The plan also addresses the currently insufficient transport connection between the city center and Kukleny.
    The competition for the conceptual design will be followed by the selection of a developer for the actual zoning plan. It is not excluded that the developers will be Vymetálek and Kotas themselves. The new zoning plan could then come into effect starting from 2015, and the total costs for its development are estimated to be around 20 million crowns.
    According to the current building law from 2006, every city in the Czech Republic must have a new zoning plan developed by the end of 2015 or must revise the current one. Hradec has decided to create a new plan, the creation of which has begun with the conceptual competition.