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        "rendered": "<strong>Category:<\/strong>\u00a0Competition, dialouge and detailing\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0K\u00e4rdla, Estland\n<strong>Year:<\/strong>\u00a02015 &#8211; 2020\n<strong>Client:<\/strong>\u00a0Hiiumaa vallavalitsus (municipality)\n<strong>Architect:<\/strong>\u00a0Bornstein Lyckefors\n\t<p>K\u00e4rdla is the main town on the small Estonian island Hiiumaa. In 2015 MARLED together with architects Bornstein Lyckeforr won first prize in this general competition to redesign the outdated town center. The context is rurban, people from all over the island come here for services and shopping. Until now, the elongated place was dominated by traffic and parking. The challenge in the competition was to renew the square and create new life in the city center with, among other things, a new market hall and a new cultural center.<\/p>\n<p>The project was successfully completed in late 2020.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mareldarkitektur.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-1\" height=\"1500\" width=\"2000\" title=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mareldarkitektur.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-2\" height=\"1500\" width=\"2000\" title=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mareldarkitektur.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-7.jpg\" alt=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-7\" height=\"1500\" width=\"2000\" title=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-7\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mareldarkitektur.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-5.jpg\" alt=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-5\" height=\"1500\" width=\"2000\" title=\"Kardla-Central-Square-by-MARELD-5\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<p>Detailed design started in 2017 with a dialogue process with the public and high school pupils. The suggestions and comments from this process helped to adjust the proposal to meet local needs even better. For instance, the market building was downsized and more activities for children and youths added. Our proposal divides the site into a park, an urban square, and a drastically smaller parking area. 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