We have great news! The Vorkuta Town Master Plan developed by RTDA has received the Second Reward in the prestigious Global Architecture & Design Awards 2024.

Vorkuta town is known for its special, convoluted history and rough climatic conditions of the Far North. These are the main factors, and they were considered first. For us that work has become a great personal challenge – the extreme climate, the need to improve social conditions, support education and bring it to the new level which will undoubtedly give an impetus to additional economic development in the future – all this required a non-standard unique approach to design process.

The main goal of the master plan was to create a program to reorganize Vorkuta into a compact, comfortable town-to-live with its own attractive appearance and character, saving social and urban culture identity.

We placed great emphasis on the collaborative work and co-design process with locals: their requests for missing urban functions, main issues, favorite places, identity, desire to maintain or change certain urban planning aspects, their interest in improving the quality of urban environment.

The result of the master plan entailed proposals for planning principles of territory development, its functional zoning, development and stabilization areas, conceptual solutions for transportation, town utilities, gently integrated system of urban public spaces, as well as development of housing and social infrastructure.

Many thanks to the entire big team who worked on this project!