Partnerships with architects, urban planners or civil engineers? Collaborations with other planners are not uncommon for landscape architects. Here you will find a selection of competitions won by interdisciplinary planning teams.
A city balcony on the Rhine
Open two-phase planning competition for applicant consortia
Sponsor: Town of Neuenburg am Rhein
Decision: February 19
1st prize: Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin; MONO Architekten, Berlin; WTM Engineers, Berlin
2nd prize: Andreas Krause Landschaftsarchitektur, Freiburg; Spiecker, Sautter, Lauer Architekten, Freiburg; Mohnke/ Höss Bauingenieure, Freiburg
3rd prize: Markus Herthneck Planungsgemeinschaft für Landschaftsarchitektur, Stuttgart; KohlmayerOberst Architekten, Stuttgart
4th prize: hutterreimann Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Berlin; Atelier PK Architekten, Berlin; Stadler Prenn Architekten, Berlin; ifb frohloff staffa kühl ecker, Berlin
Neuenburg am Rhein is hosting the State Garden Show in 2022 and thus has the opportunity to reorganize the Rhine meadows. In the competition, planning consortia consisting of architects, landscape architects, civil engineers and, optionally, urban planners were asked to connect the future garden show area in the Rhine meadows with the town center. The central link is the area at Kronenrain, with a parking garage and pedestrian and cycle path crossing over the main road.
The winners of the competition – Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur, MONO Architekten and WTM Engineers – have based their urban planning concept on the historic layout. The façade of the future parking garage traces the former edge of the city along the Rhine, similar to a city wall. The structure is integrated into the future city balcony and offers open spaces on its roof for future public or private use. In the Rhine meadows, the new stair tower of the pedestrian walkway forms a landmark – according to the planners, together with the city balcony opposite it, it could become a unique landmark for the city.
Danakil climate zone world – experience the desert and jungle in Erfurt
Restricted realization competition
Awarded by: Erfurter Garten- und Ausstellungs GmbH
Decision: January 28
1st prize: Henchion Reuter Architekten, Berlin; Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten, Dresden, stories within architecture, Berlin; Obermeyer Planen + Beraten, Chemnitz; EiSat GmbH, Berlin
2nd prize: pbr Planungsbüro Rohling AG, Magdeburg; Holzer Kobler Architekturen, Zurich; Hager Partner AG, Zurich
3rd prize: Hascher Jehle Architektur, Berlin; Möhrle + Partner GbR, Stuttgart; Planungsbüro Waidhas GmbH, Chemnitz; Weischede, Herrmann und Partner GmbH, Stuttgart
Erfurt is planning a new attraction, a climate zone world in egapark. Named after one of the hottest places in the world, the Ethiopian desert Danakil, a complex consisting of a desert house, tropical house and conservatory is to be built in the center of the park. The lighthouse project is intended to raise the profile of the egapark. The winners of the competition between the six interdisciplinary teams were Henchion Reuter Architekten, together with Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten, the scenographers stories within architecture, the structural engineers EiSat and the technical building services planners Obermeyer Planen + Beraten.
The planners have retained the geometry and materiality of the listed park, but have given it a new theme. In front of the new desert and jungle house, a climate terrace is being created with rings planted according to climate zones. A tub garden will also display the exotic plants from the egapark’s plant collection. To the north of the show house, a “climate forest” is being created as an experience space designed to make climate change and its phenomena tangible. Inside, the “course of the water” guides visitors through the different landscapes.
Living at the new shipyard triangle in Rostock
Restricted realization competition with mandatory teams of architects and landscape architects
Awarded by: WIRO Wohnen in Rostock Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH
Decision: March 02
1st prize: Albert Wimmer ZT-GmbH, Vienna; Martha Schwartz Partners, London
2nd prize Riegler Riewe Architekten ZT-GmbH, Graz; yellow z urbanism architecture, Zurich; lad+landschaftsarchitektur diekmann, Hanover
Instead of the originally planned “Technology Park for Thinking Industry”, the former Neptun shipyard is being transformed into an urban residential quarter. The team of architects Albert Wimmer ZT-GmbH and landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners won the urban and open space planning competition. The concept adopts the existing urban planning matrix in the form of neighborhood blocks. The closed development surrounds the centrally located shipyard park, which is around 2.5 hectares in size. The watercourse of the Kayenmühlengraben will be renaturalized and run above ground again in future. An extensive and diverse “network” of paths, squares and visual connections links the quarter, its undeveloped courtyards and the park. The open space of the new quarter is designed for pedestrians and cyclists. Parking is provided by two multi-storey garages at the eastern and western ends of the quarter. The striking Heinkel wall, the remains of a former industrial hall, will become part of the new city loggia, which residents can use as a winter garden.
New plans for the Südschnellweg in Hanover
Single-phase ideas competition
Awarded by: Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport, Hanover
Decision: February 10
1st prize: schneider+schumacher, Frankfurt/Main; lad+ landschaftsarchitektur diekmann, Hanover; BPR Dipl.Ing. Bernd F. Künne & Partner mbB, Hanover
1st prize Stadt Land Fluss, Büro für Städtebau und Stadtplanung, Berlin; Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin; Hoffmann Leichter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Berlin
2nd prize: Gertz Gutsche Rümenapp Stadtentwicklung und Mobilität GbR, Hamburg; yellow z urbanism architecture, Berlin; bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin
The Südschnellweg in Hanover is of supra-regional importance for traffic. A section of the B3 federal highway, including its bridges, needs to be renewed, which gives rise to the need to reorganize the route and the adjacent areas in terms of urban development and open space planning. Two planning teams each won first prize in the ideas competition. Schneider+schumacher with BPR Dipl.Ing. Bernd F. Künne & Partner and lad+ landschaftsarchitektur diekmann are planning a green corridor for Hanover’s city center. To achieve this, they are placing the through traffic of the main road along the built-up area in a tunnel. This is followed by a two-span bridge that crosses the landscape of the Leine floodplain. The bridge solution prevents the open space from being fragmented and allows sensitive landscape areas to be restored.
The planning team of urban planners Stadt Land Fluss, Ingenieurgesellschaft Hoffmann Leichter and Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur is attempting to minimize the structural impact on the landscape. Tunneling under a long section of road creates a broad urban green space, which widens out in the eastern section like a park and ends at the rounded-off school grounds.












