The winners of the 13th Landscape Architecture Prize have been announced. The city of Cologne can celebrate three awards at once: the Rheinboulevard in Cologne-Deutz wins first prize.

For the 13th time, the Association of German Landscape Architects has organized the competition for the German Landscape Architecture Prize. At the end of September 2017, it awarded the first prize and the nine awards in the 13th competition for the German Landscape Architecture Prize.

There were 30 projects to choose from when the eleven judges decided on first place and the winners in nine categories on April 28, 2017. The winners were announced at the beginning of May 2017. The city of Cologne can be particularly pleased: the jury awarded prizes to three local projects. In addition to the projects at L.-Fritz-Gruber-Platz (category: Light in open spaces) and Ottoplatz (category: Landscape architecture in detail), the “Rheinboulevard, Cologne Deutz” even received the main prize, the first prize. The project was designed by Planorama Landscape Architecture with the City of Cologne, Office for Landscape Conservation and Green Spaces, as the client.

After eight years of construction, a 500-metre-long embankment staircase now takes the Rhine to its center and connects the right bank of the Rhine with the city center of the Rhine metropolis. According to the jury, with this gesture, the designers have succeeded in developing a modern, unique urban building opposite Cologne Cathedral, which impresses with its integrated flood protection as well as its exciting approach to the historical layers from over 200 years of city history.

Further awards

Award in the category use of plants
– Project: Lohsepark, Hamburg, Hamburg
– Author of the design: VOGT Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich and Berlin

Award in the category Green infrastructure as a strategy:
– Project: To new shores, Siegen
– Author of the design: Atelier LOIDL Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin

Award in the Neighborhood Development / Residential Environment category:
– Project: Dachgarten Wagnis 4, Munich
– Author of the design: Wamsler Rohloff Wirzmüller FreiRaumArchitekten, Regensburg

Award in the category Participation and Planning:
– Project: wagnisART, Munich
– Author of the design: bauchplan ).(, Munich

Award in the category Nature Conservation and Landscape Experience:
– Project: Botanischer Volkspark Blankenfelde, Berlin
– Author of the design: Fugmann Janotta Partner Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsplaner bdla, Berlin

Award in the category Sport, Play, Movement:
– Project: PLAY_LAND, Oberhausen-Holten
– Author of the design: wbp Landschaftsarchitekten, Bochum

Award in the Climate Adaptation and Sustainability category:
– Project: terra nova BiosphärenBand, Rhein-Erft-Kreis
– Author of the design: bbz landschaftsarchitekten and Ernst Scharf, architect, both Berlin

Award in the category light in open spaces:
– Project: Design of the L.-Fritz-Gruber-Platz, Cologne
– Author of the design: scape Landschaftsarchitekten, Düsseldorf

Award in the Landscape Architecture in Detail category:
– Project: ʻOttoplatzʻ in Cologne-Deutz, Cologne
– Author of the design: bbzl böhm benfer zahiri landschaften städtebau, Berlin, with ISAPLAN, Leverkusen

About the Landscape Architecture Prize

The German Landscape Architecture Prize honors exemplary projects and their authors. The main focus is on socially and ecologically oriented settlement and landscape development and contemporary open space planning. It recognizes outstanding planning achievements, including conceptual ones, that bring aesthetically sophisticated, innovative and ecological solutions to life. The awards will be presented at an evening ceremony on September 29, 2017 in Berlin.

You can find out more about the nominated projects here.

Women in Architecture (WIA) Berlin 2021 is the first festival to offer a space for the examination of works by women and the long overdue restructuring of the profession.

Women in Architecture (WIA) Berlin 2021 is the first festival to offer a space for exploring the work of women and the long overdue transformation of the profession. From June 1 to July 1, 2021, it will present over 60 events at various locations in Berlin.

WIA 2021 is the first festival in Berlin on the topic of “Women in Architecture”. In one of the world’s most exciting cities for planning, building and negotiating, the network n-ails e.V. and the Berlin Chamber of Architects, together with more than 20 institutions from AIV and BDA to TU Berlin and the Werkbund, are organizing over 60 events at many different locations in Berlin for four weeks: exhibitions, film series, guided tours, symposia, lectures and workshops.

The festival thus offers a space for the examination of works by women. The focus is on topics such as “Building Site Equality”, “Parity Building Culture” and “Reconstructing the Professional Image”. WIA Berlin sees itself as a platform for professional networking and aims to inspire female planners to take the step into self-employment or management positions, for example. The festival’s patron is Regula Lüscher, Senate Building Director and State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing.

The Women in Architecture team consists of twelve women from the fields of architecture, interior design, landscape planning and structural engineering. They are Barbara Biehler, Dagmar Chrobok-Dohmann, Elke Duda, Jutta Feige, Gabi Fink, Martina Gross-Georgi, Elke Hobmeyr, Larissa Kirchmeier, Mathilde Kocher, Ramona Knöfel, Sarah Rivière, Sabrina Rossetto, Isabel Thelen, and Nicole Zahner.

WIA initiators

n-ails is a network for female architects, interior designers, engineers, landscape architects and urban planners in Berlin. Since 2004, n-ails has been committed to networking and empowering women in these professions. In addition to organizing excursions and exhibitions on projects, n-ails is involved in creative exchange for a nationwide network of female planners and provides challenging impulses for decision-makers through personal representation at leading levels.

The Berlin Chamber of Architects is the professional self-administration of more than 9,000 members from the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and interior design. It represents the profession in society, takes a stand on laws and regulations, promotes building culture and advocates for the interests of architects in politics, administration, business and the media and offers them an extensive training program.

Discussion series “women in architecture journalism”

As part of the WIA Festival Berlin 2021, the discussion series “women in architecture journalism” will also take place, organized by the Deutscher Werkbund in cooperation with the Mies van der Rohe Haus.

Around 75 percent of the leading trade journals and online portals for architecture, interior design, urban planning and landscape architecture in Germany are headed by female editors-in-chief. With the discussion series “women in architecture journalism”, Werkbund Berlin offers these female journalists a stage to reflect on current positions on the communication of architecture. Biographies and networking will be examined and scrutinized: What role does diversity play in reporting? How can female architects and their achievements be given more visibility?
The garden of the Mies van der Rohe House in Berlin will become an open-air studio during the WIA Festival in order to reach many interested people inside and outside Berlin with this topic via livestream.

Concept and moderation:
Astrid Bornheim, Architect BDA DWB, Astrid Bornheim Architecture, Berlin
Prof. Jan R. Krause, architectural mediator BDA DWB, office for architectural thinking, Berlin/Bochum

Dates and participants of the “women in architecture journalism” talks

Date 7.6.

Date 21.6.

Date 28.6.

Deutscher Werkbund Berlin

As an interdisciplinary association, the Deutscher Werkbund has mediated between architecture, crafts and industry since its foundation in 1907. The Werkbund aims to create awareness of quality, communicate criteria for quality and promote interdisciplinary quality discussions in society. This goal connects the members from architecture, art, crafts, urban and landscape planning, graphics, design, industry, communication, education and politics with a large international network.

Mies van der Rohe House

The Mies van der Rohe House was built in 1932 as “Haus Lemke”. With its red brick walls and filigree glass façade, it is one of the most important architectural monuments of modernism. With its program, it is both a space for thought and experience. The educational program with symposia, tours, events and garden festivals is summarized in annual themes that focus on Mies van der Rohe, the culture of modernism and the house itself. With its exhibitions, it attracts 50,000 visitors every year.

In Career Talk #7, our colleagues from NXT A talk to the founders of the Frau liebt Bau and Architektinnen initiative NW networks about the day-to-day work of female architects, how important networking is for female architects in particular and why they should support each other.

You can read more about women’s power and female careers in architecture here.

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