The contest organised by local urban research platform ONplan lab on behalf of Penta Real Estate seeks compelling proposals for 85,000m of mixed-use development, including new homes, offices, leisure and retail areas.The two UK finalists for the jobs in the capital of the Czech Republic are Studio Egret West and Morris+Company. Studio Egret West is shortlisted for Block B01 a 20,900m gateway office building while Morris+Company is vying for two residential buildings dubbed Block B02 and Block B03 respectively.The competition launched in November 2024 three years after a team including London practice Marko and Placemakers won a high-profile contest to re-masterplan the entire 24ha Florenc area.AdvertisementFlorenc is the largest brownfield site in close contact with Pragues historic city centre. It is shaped by transport infrastructure, including a bus terminal, train station and highway flyover, and represents one of the citys most complex urban challenges.Bjarke Ingels Group won an international contest organised by The City of Prague for a major new 204 million (CZK 6.1 billion) waterfront concert hall close to the Vltavsk metro station in 2022. The City of Prague also announced an international competitive dialogue to rethink a prominent 56ha waterfront site in the same year.Penta Real Estate is one of the largest independent developers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and has worked on previous schemes by Serie Architects and Studio Fuksas. Fifteen years ago Zaha Hadid Architects won a competition held by the developer for a high-rise Sky Park development in Bratislava.Czech architectural studio ADNS architekti won a contest launched four years ago by Penta Real Estate to design a mixed-use development in Pragues post-industrial Vysoany suburb. In 2023, Studio Egret West and Snhetta working in a 50:50 collaboration alongside local practice Gro Architekti were named overall winners of a Penta Real Estate contest to redevelop Bratislava Southbank.Judges of the latest contest include the German architect Stefan Behnisch, Italian architect Maria Alessandra Segantini, Dutch urbanist Kees Christiaanse and Czech Architecture Prize winner tpn Valouch.AdvertisementUp to eight teams have been shortlisted for each site and invited to participate in the design phase of the competition. The contest features a 700,000 prize fund and the overall winners will be announced in autumn 2025.The shortlistsCompetition block B01Studio Egret WestCHYBIK+KRISTOF/ Atelier Ten/Mfs GroupBarkow Leibinger Gesellschaft von Architektenquerkraft architektur/Jan Proksa ArchitectsKuba & Pila architectsSAS COLDEFY ET ASSOCIES/A69 architectsVietzke & Borstelmann Architekten/Jakub KlkaADEPT/OH BOICompetition block B02Morris+CompanyBaumschlager Eberle LustenauAulk Fier architekti / Machar Teichman / studio reactorA69 architects/ADEPTDe Architekten Cie InternationalVietzke & Borstelmann Architekten/Jakub KlkaLAN/P2PABotticini+Facchinelli/ARW AssociatesCompetition block B03Hasscookzemmrich STUDIO2050AllesWirdGut Architektur/creatura studio/DnD Landschaftsplanung/AED projectMorris+Companyre:architekti/baukuh studio associato/Atelier Kempe Thilledit architects/A69 architekti/NL ArchitectsDe Architekten Cie InternationalStudio Perspektiv/Studio NinedotsIngenhoven associatesCompetition block B04Pelk and partner architects / Thomas Mller Ivan Reimann Gesellschaft von Architekten mbHPavel Hnilika Architects+PlannersBaumschlager Eberle LustenauA69 architects/ADEPTIngenhoven associatesLAN / P2PADe Zwarte Hond Groningen/Apropos Architectsagps architecture/Drig AG/MOBA studio