By 2030, the Viinikanlahti area will have been redeveloped and incorporated into the Tampere city centre. The area currently houses a wastewater treatment plant, which will be relocated. The planning of the new residential area and green areas will commence in 2020 with surveys, the ideas competition and the first phases of local detailed planning.
The competition area is located by Lake Pyhäjärvi. In addition to the city centre, the surrounding area includes industrial activities, traffic areas, office job areas, housing areas, Hatanpää Hospital, and the historic Hatanpää Manor and Manor Park. The majority of the area currently consists of a wastewater treatment plant area. The shore areas currently mainly include walk-through parks and sports facilities.
In the mid-2020s, the wastewater treatment plant will have been relocated. At that time, it will be possible to make the area part of the new active city structure as an area reserved for housing, recreation, and leisure. Before this, significant environmental restoration work must be implemented both in the land and water areas.
In the future, the Viinikanlahti area will be a city district that is connected to the city centre and whose essential characteristics are its location by the lake and its linking with the public transport services of the tramline. The population target of the competition area was 3000 residents at the minimum. The competition area is one of the spearhead projects of the Tampere City Centre Development Programme 2018–2030 and one of the significant areas of the City of Tampere’s local detailed plan programme.
The open international urban ideas competition was launched in May 2019. The competition programme was published and the competition website opened on 15 May 2019. The answers concerning the competition task, the developed Weup aerial map and additional background information were published on 19 June 2019. 
The first phase of the competition ended on 27 September 2019. By the set deadline, a total of 57 entries were submitted to the competition under a pseudonym. Competition entries submitted in the first phase can be viewed on the competition website here.
The second phase of the competition started and its competition programme was published on 14 November 2019. The jury selected six competition entries for the second phase. The pseudonyms of these entries are Divercity, Lakes & Roses, SoBa, Pärske, Greenikka and Natural Alliance.
Competitors selected for the second phase had until February 2020 to develop their entries based on the specified instructions provided by the jury. All six pseudonyms selected for the second phase submitted their further developed competition entries by the set deadline, 14 February 2020. The second phase competition entries were published on the competition website on 20 February 2020.
The competition entries submitted in the second phase of the urban ideas competition and completed surveys were displayed from 20 February to 12 March 2020 as part of the preparatory material of the local detailed plan. During that time, feedback could be submitted to the City of Tampere regarding the material. 
The result was announced on 17 April 2020 by. The evaluation minutes and other new material related to the competition have been published on the competition website.
The winner of the competition is the pseudonym Lakes & Roses. The jury praised its excellent overall approach to the urban and landscape architecture, and the clarity of the cityscape. The revealed author of the entry is Architecturestudio NOAN from Tampere, Finland.
Lakes & Roses features a 30-metre-wide green link that introduces a sequence of various park areas and habitats, while pedestrian bridges connect the new area directly to the city centre and offers recreational activities such as boating and fishing.
“The quiet power of the overall solution is based on vivid and sustainable design solutions,” commented the jury.
The City of Tampere will continue the local detailed planning and other planning of the area based on the result of the competition. 
Development is expected to go from 2024-2035.
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Via Tampere.Finland