To take part in the competition, an application needed to be completed on the official competition website at https://en.gorskaya-spb.ru/ and provide a portfolio of projects that demonstrate relevant experience, along with an essay with a description of ideas for the development of the territory.
The Organizing Committee received 160 applications from 30 countries.
23 participants filled out applications fulfilling all the competition rules: 3 individual applicants and 20 consortia, with a total of 76 companies.
The geography of the participants is vast, including 16 countries and 28 cities.
43 companies from Russia are taking part in the competition (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk), ten from the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh), four from Italy (Bologna, Milan, Rome) and four from the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Utrecht, Hilversum), two from Spain (Barcelona), two from the United States (Minneapolis, Chicago), and two from Sweden (Gothenburg, Stockholm), as well as one company from Austria (Vienna), Andorra (Andorra la Vella), Germany (Munich), Denmark (Copenhagen), Israel (Tel Aviv), Ireland (Cork), China (Hong Kong), Romania (Bucharest) and Ukraine (Kiev).
On February 3, a jury of international, federal and regional experts in architecture and design, landscape architecture, spatial planning, ecology, economics, communications, technology and innovation will select three finalists to develop their competition proposals.