Following the government’s announcement that Riga might remain outside the Rail Baltica main line, creative competition platform Tandeems and artistic research network Baltic Lines invite you to take part in the ReRail Riga idea competition on the future of Rail Baltica infrastructure in Riga. What to do with the unfinished construction at the Riga Central Station? How to use the terminal at Riga Airport? And what function could be given to the first pier of the railway bridge over the Daugava? Proposals can be submitted until January 30.
In November 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers publicly announced a conceptual agreement not to connect the Rail Baltica main route to Riga Central Station and Riga Airport in the project’s first phase. Instead, international passenger traffic is proposed to be redirected from central Riga to Salaspils, where the construction of a passenger station can be implemented in this initial phase. This raises the possibility that the half-built Rail Baltica terminal in the Riga Central Station may remain unconnected to the high-speed Rail Baltica route. What could the future of the half-built infrastructure in Riga be? Tandeems, in collaboration with Baltic Lines, invites the public to imagine, innovate, and share bold, creative ideas. ReRail Riga is an open competition to propose potential uses for the incomplete buildings and infrastructure of Rail Baltica in Riga.
The challenge is to come up with ideas for alternative uses of the infrastructure built as part of Rail Baltica in Riga. The buildings proposed in the ideas competition are the Riga Central Station, the railway terminal at Riga Airport, as well as the bicycle ramp and the railway bridge under construction across the Daugava River. The competition is open to both large-scale visions for the whole infrastructure as well as ideas for the use of a specific structure.
Participants must submit a title and a description of up to 1000 characters, as well as a picture in square format, using any technique, explaining the vision. The organisers encourage the use of photos available on the competition website or taken by the participants themselves for the visualisations, while entries with images that breach copyright or are intolerant will be disqualified.
Ideas can be submitted until January 30. Voting for the best ideas will take place from January 31 to February 7. Users registered on the Tandeems website will be able to vote for three of their favourite entries. The proposals that receive the most votes will be exhibited for public viewing in Riga. The exhibition is planned to take the form of an intervention in several locations in the city. All submitted works will be visible online during the submission period.
For more information about the competition and to submit ideas, visit the Tandeems website.
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