Heike Vossen provides information on the most exciting competition results in July: LILA, Berlin Brandenburg 2070, IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027 and more.
Interested in the latest competition results in landscape architecture, but hardly have time to look at them properly? In the G+L competition overview, Heike Vossen provides monthly updates on the most exciting competition results. Here is the competition overview from July 2020.
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On the future of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region: after years of stagnation, the region is developing increasingly rapidly in many areas and the metropolis is becoming strongly intertwined with the surrounding area. In order to enrich the necessary debate about the design possibilities of the metropolis, the Architects’ and Engineers’ Association of Berlin (AIV) launched an urban design ideas competition with the aim of further developing the existing metropolitan region with all its special features and characteristics.
The winning team of architects, landscape architects and engineers impressed the jury with their work “Growing together – Landschaf(f)tStadt”, which, according to jury chairman Jo Coenen, represents a forward-looking overall concept for Berlin-Brandenburg in 50 years’ time, based on the current situation. The basis of the further development is the existing basic form, the settlement star with the historically created rail radii, which the authors have taken up, extended and expanded. This provides living space for a further one million inhabitants. The green wedges in between remain as a cultural landscape and serve as agricultural land, forest and recreational areas.
“How do we want to live tomorrow?” is the key question for the International Garden Exhibition (IGA) 2027 in the Ruhr metropolis. Open space planners are to develop future scenarios for this in several competitions, starting with the Future Garden in Dortmund, with whose concept bbz landschaftsarchitekten convinced the jury. The Hansa coking plant, which was once central to Dortmund’s industrial history, forms the heart of the garden.
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The landscape architects take up the basic structure of the industrial area and develop the two main lines into a spatially effective loop. This also links the Deusenberg leisure and recreation area, the energy campus and the local transport museum at Mooskamp. Along the loop are various smaller future gardens, which together with the clearly highlighted loop form the basic structure of the coking plant park, which will also be the exhibition venue for the IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027.
This is the fifth anniversary of the LILA- Landezine International Landscape Award. The aim of the award is to recognize interesting landscape architects and their pioneering projects in a way that attracts public attention. The international LILA 2020 award presented prizes in six categories: Public Open Spaces, Infrastructure Projects, Residential Projects, Private Open Spaces, Playgrounds and Schools, and Hotel Open Spaces.
From over 280 entries, the five-member jury – including Robin Winogrond from Studio Vulkan and Hanneke Kijne from MORE landscape – decided on seven awards and five commendations. From the 159 office profiles submitted, the editors of Landezine selected the US landscape architect Charles A. Birnbaum with the Honor Award and the Berlin planning office TOPOTEK 1 with the Office Award.
Detailed information on LILA 2020 can be found here.
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On the former Funke-Medien-Areal in Essen, a mix of offices, hotel, apartments, restaurants and retail is to be created in the new Literatur Quartier. The landscape architects club L 94 won the open space planning competition with an identity-creating design that takes up literature and the written word in an abstract form. The central square in the district forms the core of the design as a “square of poetry”, together with the so-called literature gardens in the adjacent streets.
The square consists of a grove of trees in the west and a water feature flush with the ground, but does not have any other permanent fixtures and can therefore be used flexibly. In the “literary gardens”, a variety of plantings alternate with small play areas. A “carpet of letters” made of non-directional concrete slabs with letter inlays forms a uniform urban floor with its eye-catching surface and a high recognition value for the district.
