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Does the news sometimes tell you about it? Us too. That’s why you’ll find the latest news, discussions and projects well organized here for you to read. January 2023 in retrospect.
In the January issue of G+L, we asked: How does the next generation of landscape architects want to work in the future? Editor-in-chief Theresa Ramisch presents the issue in the editorial.
The competition for the Rosentalturm Basel on the exhibition grounds has been decided. The “Rooseli” design by Herzog & de Meuron won over the jury. A public open space, a free-standing pavilion and a grove of trees are intended to bring the Rosental site back into the focus of the area. Find out what else is planned here.
The competition for the site of the 2027 State Garden Show in Neustadt an der Weinstraße has been decided. The design by planning office Atelier Loidl from Büro won over the jury. Find out more about the competition and the winning project for the Neustadt State Garden Show here.
A new quarter with 950 apartments is to be built on Dreilingsweg in the north-west of Munich. The urban and landscape planning competition for the district was won by MLA+ and Lohrengel Landschaft, both from Berlin. Here you can read what the planners’ design for residential buildings, green spaces and traffic looks like on Dreilingsweg.
The winners of the competition for the ThyssenKrupp site in Hamburg have been announced. First prize went to the design by gmp and WES LandschaftsArchitektur. Find out here what facilities are planned for the site at Diebsteich station and what the winning design envisages for the open space.
The Tadao Ando Campus and Tower is being built in Düsseldorf. As the city’s future landmark, the architecture is intended to be a symbiosis of high-tech and nature. Landscape designer Enzo Enea is responsible for the latter: he is designing roof gardens and a park. You can read more about this here: Ando Campus Düsseldorf
Carlo Ratti Associati, Office for Living Architecture and the organization GAL Terre del Po developed the Tree Path project together. The elevated cycle path to the Italian town of Sabbioneta is not only located between trees, but is also supported by them. Find out more about the Tree Path here.
Central London gets its first new public space in a decade: The new pedestrian area called Strand Aldwych opened in December 2022 in Aldwych next to Somerset House near the Thames. Read more about the new public space by LDA Design here: Strand Aldwych London
Unism and Arup have designed an underground factory in Poland for food packaging company EcoPet. The EcoPet flagship factory is intended to serve as a model for large-scale developments in rural areas. Read more here.
The Mall Environmental Prize is to be awarded to final theses in the fields of rainwater management and blue-green-grey infrastructures. The Roland Mall Family Foundation intends to award the prize annually from now on. Young scientists can apply for the first award in 2023 until March 31. More about the environmental prize here.
The German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) honored ten municipalities as part of the “Climate-active municipalities – pool of ideas and guide” project. Here you can find out who the winners are in the “Climate Active Municipality 2022” competition.
City instead of A104 – this is the theme of the AIV Schinkel Competition 2023. Participants could register until January 16, 2023. The deadline for submitting entries is one month later. We write about what they should be about in our article on the competition.
The thematic competition Europan 17 is aimed at young experts under 40 from the fields of urban planning, landscape architecture and architecture. Applications for this year’s edition of the competition are open from March 2023. Here we report on the theme, aim and previous locations of Europan.
Last year, the BUGG green building competition once again produced a winning project. The green roof of the year 2022 can be found at the main fire station in Karlsruhe. The firefighters should be able to relax there, but also be active. You can see how the roof is designed here.
Autonomous driving, drones, buses and trains without human drivers and so much more. The new 5G mobile communications standard promises a lot and now that German cities are increasingly benefiting from 5G, but we have yet to see parcel delivery drones in the sky or care robots in use, we want to raise awareness of the as yet untapped opportunities of the fifth generation of the mobile communications network.
Mobility never comes without costs. A new study by the Technical University of Munich shows that cars in particular cause many so-called external costs in traffic. These include exhaust fumes, noise andCO2. Read more about the devastating environmental impact of car traffic and the question of whether electromobility can help here.
